Translation of "Auf taube ohren stoßen" in English

People who have prejudices will not listen to us.

However, we fear that these proposals will fall on deaf ears.

But such exhortations to Chinese or Russian authorities are bound to fall on deaf ears.

You'll find nobody cares.

I'm afraid you'll find him very unsympathetic to your ideas.

A situation in which these exhortations continued to fall on deaf ears would be untenable.

I'm afraid their pleas will fall on deaf ears.

Let us hope that his is not a voice in the wilderness.

Only then will the siren's song of populism and extremism fall on deaf ears.

Many have the impression of preaching to deaf ears.

I am afraid, however, that when it goes to the Council it will once again fall on deaf ears.

To turn a deaf ear to them would be doing the European Union a disservice.

I welcome the statement by the Council that it will not fall on deaf ears.

I do not agree with the honourable Member that our pleas fall on deaf ears.

You will go before the council, but your words will fall on deaf ears.

And so the old imam worried that his words were falling on deaf ears. No one was paying attention.

We all hope that President Obama’s new initiative will not fall on deaf ears in Israel.

If this step does not work properly, all of our efforts will have been for nothing.

Because of this, I fear that their cries for mercy will fall on deaf ears.

We seem to get nowhere when we ask for the Carcassonne action plan to be carried out.

I am pleased that, for once, the ecologists' ideas have not fallen on deaf ears and I believe that, if the European Union truly wants to be credible at Kyoto, we must first of all start by imposing, for example, a tax on energy in our own countries.

If our discussions today are not followed up by concrete actions based on what we have heard here today, I fear that the declarations made by us will fall on deaf ears, mere good intentions with no real impact on misery and poverty throughout the world and in Europe.

We strongly support all of them but we fear that, if the international community, starting with the European Union, fails to take the appropriate pressure measures, they will once again risk falling on deaf ears.

Despite the consistent involvement and commitment of many world leaders, institutions and NGOs in calling on the Chinese authorities to avoid the use of violence against the Tibetan people, these pleas unfortunately seem to fall on deaf ears, thus compromising international relations.

It must be stated and repeated - because the worst kind of deaf person is someone who does not want to hear - that the OECD has recognized that there is no close correlation between the influxes of foreigners into a country and changes in the level of unemployment.