Translation of "Kleinster nenner" in English

Hey, daddy, what's a lowest common denominator?

A lowest common denominator can hardly be found.

Merger control at Community level is neither a synthesis nor the smallest common denominator of national merger control policies.'

2K DCPs (not 4K) are recommended as the lowest common denominator for nearly all film servers.

There will probably also be a price to pay for the fact that, in Baroness Ashton, we have a High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy without any real foreign policy experience who was foisted on the Union as the lowest common denominator that the Member States were able to find.

So I would suggest that on this occasion - and I make this a formal request - we look for the lowest common denominator of drawing up an internal self-regulation code for Parliament so that we can finally come to an agreement on what constitutes human rights.

Let us at least join forces to demand what was agreed as the lowest common denominator in the report by the Committee on Research, Technological Development and Energy - the Commission's allocation entered in the budget.

If the existing standards only derive from a set of lowest common denominators, parties to this agreement will not be encouraged to consider developing more humane standards.

It is suicidal for the EU to draw on Europe’s worst political traditions, the common denominator of which is the idea that evil must be appeased and that the best way to achieve peace is through indifference to the freedom of others.

At the same time, it is not meant to reflect a lowest common denominator, but rather a possible solution that is at the same time politically sustainable and framed in a manner that is flexible enough to allow the membership to take further reform steps in the future.

The Committee does not advocate uniform standards of enforcement across the EU, as this could lead to a lowest common denominator rather than a general levelling up.

Always remembering the need to avoid resorting to lowest common denominators in the light of the situation in each Member State, but instead to set a minimum standard which guarantees the position and interests of victims within the EU, the Green Paper's response to this question is satisfactory.

The fact is that the interest of the Union is neither the sum of the interests of the Member States, nor their lowest common denominator.

It is necessary always to remember the need to avoid resorting to lowest common denominators in the light of the situation in each Member State, but instead to set a minimum standard which guarantees the position and interests of victims within the EU.

On the question of whether there should be a European standard covering both the method of calculation and the cost elements, the EESC maintains that a lowest common denominator could be made up of the cost of drawing up the file, the cost of setting up the mortgage, clearly identifiable administrative costs and the cost of insurance.

The fact is that the interest of the Union is neither the sum of the interests of the Member States, nor their lowest common denominator.

In the former case (conference call), all the subscriber terminals involved should use a voice coder and should support calls at a reduced transmission rate in order for communication among all the terminals to be possible (lowest common denominator).

Meanwhile there are about 25 releases, whose lowest common demominator is the love to »Afro sounds«.

The old geometrical symbol of perfection, the circle as the smallest denominator for unity, is cut into segments, to form a script.

The architecture is initially meant to function as a frame, at least that's how Simon Putz describes it in the festival guide, the container is to function as the lowest common denominator with which the different initiatives can work.