Translation of "Abfuhr erteilen" in English

Is the French Communist Party prepared to administer such a rebuff?

It seems to me - and this is the second lesson to be drawn from the European elections - that an increasing euroscepticism amongst voters in numerous countries has been demonstrated, particularly in the United Kingdom and France, and I believe that by voting for the opposition parties in the large European countries, it is the Europe in which their governments participate that the citizens wanted to reject.

Chairman Hatzidakis is right: we must have the courage to say 'no' to those pressure groups which sometimes attempt to prevent the Commission and the institutions from tackling areas affecting them which Europe has never clearly addressed.

This work must be protected from slanderers and opponents but it must also be further improved upon - it is not true that there is no scope to do this - and we must reject the theories of those who do not want to change anything, or else all the work that has been achieved will come to nothing.

It should also rebuff efforts by the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the Arab League to seek a UN resolution, backed by possible sanctions, to ban attacks on religious beliefs.

I trust that in the name of common sense we will say no to the ban on the production of barometers.

Suddenly, when the people caught on, they ran with their tail between their legs and have been running ever since, petrified that the voters would reject them again.

And though Juppé remains far ahead in the opinion polls so far, the French could reject his happy version of French identity, in favor of Sarkozy’s much darker one.

No, I'm just going to tell her I'm coming so she can give that Good Time Charlie the heave-ho.

After five years of slow growth and rising unemployment, voters in other indebted countries, like Italians (and French voters before them), are likely to reject additional spending reductions, tax increases, and further painful deregulation.

The peoples of Europe, and the States should, however decidedly fight back, and they should rebuff those governments, which tend to let themselves be seduced.

We have no doubt that the Ukrainian Soviet Government will be able to administer a fitting rebuff to the new uninvited guests—the would-be enslavers from Britain and France.

As a result, you will have peace and joy, your prayers will be answered; and when the tempter comes, you will have power over him and can give him a rebuff.

Hence I think that, since the French Communist Party has to mould new revolutionary cadres and prepare the masses for the crisis, its immediate task is to rebuff the Rights and to isolate them.

In this way Marx wanted to give a decisive rebuff to all opponents of his doctrine who were trying to sell their bourgeois ideology under the label of "Marxism."

The main purpose was to make all activities a conscious application of the dialectical method and to resolutely rebuff any manifestation of petty-bourgeois vanity, arrogance and self-importance, sectarianism and contempt for the masses, opportunism and pragmatism as well as dogmatism and revisionism.

They must reject the "Buy American" nationalism of the unions and coordinate their struggles against the global corporations with workers throughout the world.