Traduction de «demander à brûle-pourpoint » (Français → Anglais) :

Honourable senators, motions and agreements in this place are not made as the result of a casual request of the Leader of the Government in the Senate.

I call on the European institutions and the governments of our Member States to change, to learn political lessons from the crisis, and to stop seeking solidarity only when it is too late.

16. Considers that the increase in fires is the result of factors over and above climate change, and that a combination of natural causes and human activity relating to the definition of forest, farming or building areas can have a decisive impact in increasing the number of criminal fires; calls urgently, therefore, for the adoption and strict implementation by Member States of legislation protecting forest and other ecosystems, preventing commercialisation of forest land and land-use change, ensuring the full reafforestation of burnt areas and providing for the efficient monitoring of such legislation as an effective disincentive to c ...[+++]riminal activity; calls for all available EU know-how, including satellite systems, to be used to this end;

A friend of mine, who has ten children and no grandmother to help bring them up, asked me: “Do you know where I could buy a granny for my children?” I also often recall the story of a doctor who asked a retired teacher to teach a badly burned boy in hospital.

A. having regard to the upsurge in intolerance and the rhetoric of ethnic hatred, principally directed against the Tutsi minority in the eastern part of the DRC, which is the root cause of the recent events in Kisangani where five Tutsis were burnt alive at the behest of mutinous soldiers and where armed individuals occupied the town’s radio station to demand the departure of the Rwandan occupying forces,

When we met in Vancouver with Mr. Henderson, who's sort of your boss, he was asked by Mr. Easter, point blank, if he had the money to do his job.