Translation of "Gegensätzliche positionen" in English

The rapporteur had to harmonise completely opposing opinions, and deserves our thanks.

But there is no reason for this change to result in antagonistic attitudes.

Creationist theory and evolutionary theory seem to represent totally opposing positions.

Even within a religion or a church, opposing positions can be taken towards the same conflict.

In the case of DNA technology the debate creates conflicts because it is difficult to define when and which of the elements of a specific technological application constitute inventions and which discoveries - given that patents should in my opinion only be granted for inventions and innovations and not for discoveries - and ones which must also result in a biotechnological application.

However, I believe that, during a debate such as this, in which two opposing positions - our Parliament's and the Council's - are up against each other, it would have been helpful if Council representatives had at least been present in this House.

This was not the case, however, as he repeated the familiar Serbian position ad nauseam without even a glimmer of an appreciation that opposing points of view also existed.

He noted the presence of two radically opposed schools of thought: one viewed the CAP reform as pursuant to the objectives and principles enshrined in the Treaty, while the other favoured total market liberalization.

Social partners, however, frequently adopt positions marked by great divergences and a low commitment to common goals (DEPP/MTSS, 2003).

Today, there is a tendency to move away from radical and exaggerated opposing positions and from excessively cut and dried views.

Hedging is better suited for traders with bigger accounts because it requires the use of more margin for opening new, opposing positions.

Then, in the 1340s, England and France took opposite sides in the long-running civil war over who should be the duke of Britanny.

The idea is rather to encourage and motivate young people and teachers to try comprehending the manifold diverging and even antagonistic positions that we take in our everyday life in favor of, or against the rule of law.

D: Was that the point at which most of the tiny revolutionary student circles, such as the society for human rights around BÃ1?4chner[21] and Weidig[22], drifted off into totally different directions and later advocated opposing positions?

In some instances tendentious positions have been adopted and set in opposition to the interpretation and application of the renewal sought in the Church by the Second Vatican Council.

Since its introduction, there are very opposing positions with regard to the benefits of summer time in relation to possible negative implications of the time change, and a reform of the summer-time arrangements is called for from different sources.

Indications are that the the positions of the social partners - employers and unions - remain opposed on the future of this directive.

Many artists are using these ‹tools› to contest, as Krzysztof Wodiczko paraphrases social philosopher Chantal Mouffe, «a new, agonistic concept of public space, which . . . invites and accommodates passion as well as adversarial positions.

A personal and philosophical journey through the shadows of past generations, conflicting positions, borders and time zones, a nomad wandering through lines of separation, examining the scars of violence and dreams of hope scattered among nameless people.

Certain techniques depend on somebody deliberately creating an opposing position, a procedure which is said to be used in meetings of the American cabinet.