Translation of "Keine stellung beziehen" in English

The Council cannot yet therefore take up a position on this question.

It sits on a fence and does not come off that fence.

The government has no obligation to take a position.

83 are not here, we cannot express an authoritative viewpoint.

Surely he has no point to make if he cannot debate it on the facts.

Both despised her decision not to choose a side in the family drama.

If we do not take a stand on them now, then we can spare ourselves the trouble altogether.

We may possibly be in danger of leaving behind someone who does not dare to take up a definite position, but we must nevertheless try to go forwards.

The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy followed Mr Bowis' s advice and decided not to adopt a position on the location of the Food Safety Agency.

First it announced a type of agreement on which we could express no opinion, then it told us that there would be an international agreement and it turns out that this international agreement is being reached without the obligation to consult Parliament.

It is significant that, at a time when the Spanish Government has taken the decision to withdraw its troops from Iraq, the majority of Parliament chooses not to adopt a position.

We have therefore chosen to vote against this report, but we wish to emphasise that we are not adopting a substantial position in the continuing debate.

As regards the way in which the European Commission exercises its right of initiative laid down in the Treaties, it is not for the Council to express an opinion.

Although the European Parliament need not give its opinion formally for some time, this position on the basis of the excellent report by Mr Corbett and Mr Méndez de Vigo, in my view, sends a strong message to Europe.

In 1995, and again in 2010, the US declared that the waters of the South China Sea should be governed by the 1982 United Nations Law of the Seas Treaty (which, ironically, the US has not yet ratified), but that the US takes no position on the territorial claims.

Mr NOORDWAL said he could agreed to no statement being made on the ban.

I would appeal to my British friends not to take this view but to give us an opportunity to have some relief in this sector, since it is a vital interest.

18.2.98 tus and requiring insulin treatment. The Council would point out that it is not for it to adopt a po­sition on whether the Community provisions in question should be amended, as any initiative re­lating to the specific question put by the Honourable Member falls to the Commission.

Kölln acts like a objective viewer, he does not want to take a position, but concentrates on the peloton as a complex structure of connections and dependencies.

In her artistic grapplings, Latifa Echakhch makes no open criticism; hostilely interpreted, this might seem as if she takes no stance.

In the case of the Gold coin currency we were glad, because we did not want to take an official position in international circles.

Godless universe, although I'm not going to take sides on that.

I would like to emphasise that I have no view on whether this is right or wrong, but all parties are waiting for the Commission' s decision and all parties are very much dependent on the Commission' decision.

You've just got to ask yourself one thing - if you don't take the stand, how many more unsolicited bum kisses will be administered by that lip-happy bastard?

The early texts report that a group of wanderers, in a discussion with one of the Buddha's lay disciples, once accused the Buddha of not taking a position on any issue, and the disciple replied that they were mistaken.