Translation of "Als vorwand nutzen" in English

Maybe I can use this as an excuse to talk to her again.

Don't give them an excuse to attack.

Because this incident is a perfect excuse for the hawks in the White House.

We therefore insist on new policies which prioritise jobs with rights, which support industrial production in the EU countries and which counteract the strategy of the multinationals that are using the crisis as a pretext to cut jobs, increase worker exploitation and boost profits.

However, we cannot accept any intensification of unacceptable political and ideological campaigns against Cuba and its people which use this sad and regrettable event as a pretext.

However, it is not legitimate to use a pretence at better crisis coordination in response to these phenomena as a pretext for seeking to breathe new life into a broad range of initiatives.

Lastly, we must not let our opponents, who are ashamed of enlargement, use this crisis as a pretext to defer to an unknown date this pan-European project that is potentially great and splendid, but is obviously also complex and costly.

Otherwise, Islamic fundamentalists throughout the world will use this conflict to galvanise the Islamic world against the West, using it as a pretext to justify worldwide terrorist attacks.

Yet certain people are trying to use the present economic slow-down as a pretext to return to an ultra-liberal programme, and to destroy the achievements of Lisbon and the integration of the various economic, social and environmental dimensions into the policies of the Union.

However this pledge was not ratified by the Argentinian Congress, out of fear that the British government would use the presence of the settlers as an excuse to seize Patagonia.

Perhaps we should be looking to China and India for answers about how to address environmental damage, instead of using climate change as a pretext to deprive them of what we already have.

The inquiry raised concerns that the banking industry could use the migration to SEPA as a pretext to increase prices by abolishing efficient national schemes, giving rise to a situation of monopoly rents.

We must not use the crisis as an excuse for dodging our responsibilities when it comes to important social policy issues, especially when they are also of economic importance.

The Or Commission report also states that activities by Islamic organizations may be using religious pretenses to further political aims.

If we dig up a cold case that the town cares about and use it as a pretense to investigate the address, that shouldn't ring too many alarm bells.

I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

We must dispose of this myth - which has been regularly used as a weapon to attack the Charter of Fundamental Rights - so that we can stop it being used as an excuse by those who seek refuge in subsidiarity in order not to shoulder their responsibilities as European citizens.

Just as US policy makers had plotted in 2009 to use an apparent "unilateral" attack by Israel upon Iran to provoke a retaliation the US could then use as a pretext to "reluctantly' go to war, a similar strategy appears to be materializing along Syria's borders today.

Several reports have stated that authorities wish to use the Olympics as a pretext to deepen their assault on the Falun Gong.

The EU follows the American line, as it would like to use independent Kosovo as a pretext for taking more initiative in its common foreign and security policy.

There are those, however, who fear that such considerations only provide ammunition to free trade’s adversaries, or to those states which use labor questions as a pretext for practicing protectionism, closing their markets to relatively less developed countries.

If you already know someone at the party, try to use them as an excuse to get to know other people.