Translation of "Auf den boden der tatsachen" in English

Let us bring it all down to earth just a little bit shall we?

Now, let's get back to reality, huh?

So much for that shocking her back into reality, huh?

You must come down to earth at some point.

Banks should be brought back to reality with supervision vital in combating the lack of ethics prevalent before the crisis.

Guys, I think reality stepped out of here about five minutes ago.

It brought me down to earth.

Their heads will still be spinning when they put their feet back on the ground.

Here they are brought back to the earth.

What brought me back down to earth:

But the truth can bring you back down to Earth.

I always tell Mr Van Orden that he should get a life.

Then, there are the over-hyped BRICS countries, now falling back to reality.

But on April 13, I saw reality. A reality made of mire and mud.

Your father's kind of a head-in-the-clouds romantic, and I'm much more down to earth.

Getting him back to the ground - can take a while;o)!

Director Teng Huatao brought Chinese viewers back down to earth.

But then again, rats and closed museums can bring you back down to earth very quickly.

However, I was overwhelmed by the complexity of the project, making me have to focus on the bare facts.

Therefore, as we can do no more than limit the damage, I strongly urge my colleagues to adopt the amendments tabled by the Group of the European Radical Alliance in order to try to set the record straight and not to punish an American company that has done some restructuring in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom, and which, in addition, has created 1 000 jobs in another country of the European Union.

We must get back to the facts when discussing human rights, and we should not have to remind ourselves where we are.

The terrible thing is that when we come down to earth from these lofty heights - to reality - we experience considerable problems.

It has been, above all, in respect of foreign and security policy, that the Ghent Summit has brought us down to earth.

The fact, however, that, ten years after Maastricht, with so many direct elections to the European Parliament having already been held and so many actions having been undertaken to promote and disseminate the European framework, on which enormous quantities of money are spent every year, after all this, the State of European citizenship is as portrayed by the Commission report and justifies some of the rapporteur's complaints, forces us to keep our feet on the ground and to build the future with our eyes on the horizon - not as far into the horizon as the visionaries would like, but as far as the reality of the situation requires.

Presidencies start with big goals, but real life brings us all back down to earth.

We have tabled amendments to throw out the common position completely, to remove all references to natural sunlight and to get some sense back into this directive.