Traduction de «Soudage par point simple » (Français → Anglais) :

Honourable senators, it is not my intent to burden you with a bevy of statistics about how the volume and the quality of our water has been in decline over the last few decades but to express to you one or two simple yet important points that I believe surround this subject.

From the formal point of view, it is preferable in this specific case to subdivide the text into points identified by letters rather than simply into indents.

Essentially, the government is insisting on two simple but fundamental points.

16. Suggests, nevertheless, that the ECB Governing Council explicitly endorse the forecasts designed by its own economic department and corresponding units of NCBs, and that the ECB forecasts be reshaped in order to detail an explicit central scenario with precise figures and not just ranges, including a detailed assessment of headline and core inflation trends; underlines the fact that this forecast should not only be a staff paper but an official ECB council document; notes, however, that where governing council members disagree with the central view of their colleagues they should be able to note such dissent anonymously as a footno ...[+++]te to the publication of the forecast;

2.2 The distinction between complete exclusion from the directive’s scope and permitted derogations from certain provisions, although clearly expressed in the directive, has led in practice to some misinterpretation and confusion, so that on several occasions complete exclusion has been equated with mere derogation.

“My points are simple; I have two to make.