Translation of "Herunterschrauben" in English

It is said that one should lower their expectations.

Well, maybe you should just, you know... Set your sights a little lower.

However, you can slide up or down your financial support.

Answer: by reducing our consumption needs.

This means that you don’t have to ‘dumb down’ your content.

Perhaps you should quit caffeine or cut down in future. 3.

You should lower your standards.

You need to scale down on your bike operation.

Son, what you have to do is lower your standards.

The city authorities are forced to initiate careful scaling down of advertising, especially in the city center.

I think it is very good that we are continuing to bring down the caps so that the competition of the offers can take place under the caps.

Following a remark by Mr Smith, the Commission can reassure him that we advocate the MAI provision, explicitly saying that countries should not lower their environmental or social standards in order to attract investments.

He says that we must lower our ambitions with regard to environmental policy and climate policy and we must lower our ambitions with regard to social policy.

I definitely do not want to lower expectations but I would be very careful not to raise expectations so high so that those who do not want the international negotiations to succeed could kill the process after Mexico if we do not achieve anything.

Exactly the same is true with regard to the opportunities available to us to further reduce the traditional role of farming subsidies.

Each side must reduce its own bargaining position or its own ultimate goal, by some degree, because, in a peace process, there can be no outright winners, nor outright losers either.

Again, in the course of the discussion we have tried to address the wilful pumping-up or the toning down of expectations before the meeting, which have been referred to as deliberate working methods.