Translation of "For the sole reason" in German

Member States cannot detain people for the sole reason that they are applying for international protection.

Member States shall not hold a person in detention for the sole reason that he/she is an applicant for asylum.

Member States shall not hold applicants for asylum in detention for the sole reason that their applications for asylum need to be examined.

Once the doctor was hired for the sole reason of inserting an IV, the doctor at that point became part of the execution team.

All this was done to them for the sole reason that they were Jews.

Individual bumps, however, may also be provided for the sole reason of maintaining a distance between the two substrates.

Turkey, an Islamic country, has called an Islamic halt to the nomination of a Prime Minister to the post of Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, for the sole reason that he is Prime Minister of a country in which Islamic cartoons were published - a liberal country in which obviously, by contrast with Turkey, it is possible to publish ironic cartoons about Mohammed.

Hell on earth is the description of how Europe's Roma lived during the Second World War when hundreds of thousands of them were murdered for the sole reason that they were Roma.

We are agreeing with the committee today, before the summer break, for the sole reason that this will enable the MED programmes to go ahead, so that at last those people can be helped who are least able to do anything about what has been made a complete mess of here, as a result of sloppiness and mismanagement, and I would like to make that point emphatically here.

This is not the same as a second pillar where something is taken away from the first for the sole reason of operating a system in different ways.

I voted against, for the sole reason that I did not know the name of this candidate for high office.

Mr Busquin is involved in the Inusop affair and has not been accused for the sole reason that the case became statute-barred.

They were killed for the sole reason of belonging to these two ethnic groups or, in the terms of their persecutors, 'race.'

Mr President, I shall not vote against the report, for the sole reason that some trade unions are hoping that it will be adopted, whatever my views may be on their policy.

In the last few weeks alone, indigenous Hungarians were badly beaten up by Serbs recently settled in Vojvodina, for the sole reason that they were speaking in their mother tongue – which, incidentally, is an official language of the European Union.

I shall emphasise, instead, the statements made by Airbus's management team, who explain to us that, if the business is to be competitive, it will probably have to relocate or set up a number of its operations in the so-called 'dollar' currency area, for the sole reason that the euro/dollar exchange rate is putting one of the European Union's most important cutting-edge sectors at a disadvantage.

Well, I should like it to be considered harassment when older people are harassed for the sole reason that they have grown old in their jobs, a point which unfortunately is not mentioned in this document.

I have voted in favour of this report for the sole reason that I believe the European Union must focus its policies on promoting everyone’s access to the rights that legitimately pertain to them, in particular those relating to knowledge.

The design shall not, however, be deemed to have been made available to the public for the sole reason that it has been disclosed to a third person under explicit or implicit conditions of confidentiality.

Member States shall not subject the exclusive rights referred to in Article 2 to licences granted, for the sole reason that a certain period of time has elapsed, automatically, and by operation of law.

Member States shall not withdraw secondary education for the sole reason that the minor has reached the age of majority.

Whereas other matters can for the time being be decided in accordance with national law, in particular, whether registration or deposit is required as a condition for protection and, subject to an exclusion of licences granted for the sole reason that a certain period of time has elapsed, whether and on what conditions non-voluntary licences may be granted in respect of protected topographies;

This is abundantly clear in the US, for example, where the Republican Party denies climate change for the sole reason that it is heavily funded by the US oil industry.

In particular, it may involve the refusal to sell to customers from other Member States for the sole reason that they are not resident in the country of the operator.