Translation of "Obwohl wir wissen" in English

People consciously follow things even though, why, we don't know.

Although we all know it will soon be a very precious commodity.

The ass is although we all know that they can fake boobs.

We wash the floor even though we know it will get dirty again soon.

Why do we lie, knowing that the truth could come to light?

I say that although my own committee voted differently and gave its support to a different staffing level.

Good luck to Emily and David, even though we know they don't need it.

Malli, we never know if God listens. Still, we pray.

But now that we have a request to postpone the vote, our view is 'better late than never' and we are more than happy to endorse that request. '

I think that we are all very well aware that if Europe has not done all that it could to achieve unity this is not because of the limitations of the Treaty but because of the lack of will-power.

We trust blindly in technical display systems, even though we know that they are often less than reliable.

Though we take care to inform you to the best of our knowledge, we do reserve the right to make changes.

And we buy it although we know 'bout the consequences we take,

Why do we make war, although we know that wars usually do not solve problems?

And that in spite of the fact that we know it is the only thing we have.

We look still for a long time for him, although we know that we have lost him.

Welcome to pacifism, although we are aware that the world is in a state of permanent war.

Why do we buy plastic yoghurt containers although we know that plastic destroys the world?

Many scientists think they know everything, though we know that they know nothing.

All of this in exchange for a loan that the Portuguese have to repay, at high interest rates, to increase the profits of international financial capitalism, even though we know full well that such measures resolve nothing, as the case of Greece clearly demonstrates.

This in fact is the problem: it is right to denounce the exploitation of social embarrassment, of racism for electoral purposes, even if we know that that is a strategy which never pays; but it is still more important to find the language, the words, the right examples to reach the conscience and the reason of European citizens.

Of course we also regret the late consideration of this report, although we know that the statistics it quotes have worsened rather than improved in the meantime.

I know there is resistance, but to shift taxation either to investigations on national level - while we know that, in a kind of prisoner's dilemma, we do not dare move because a competing colleague Member State will carry off the prize - or by passing the mandate on to Ecofin, where ultimately there must be unanimity in decision-making, does not exactly fill me with enthusiasm for the future, especially as I know that if there was one negative factor in the preparations of the summit, it was Ecofin.

Not to mention the lack of job security for farmers, whose incomes would be even more dependent on direct aid, which we all know would not be everlasting.

Today, all we are doing is asking them to finance the EU's enlargement to include the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, while being fully aware that their future hangs in the balance. This is because the European Union only thinks in terms of concluding free trade agreements and dismantling what is left of the Community preference.

Secondly, although we know where there is still room for improvement, we are doing sound work that is growing in importance.

Question two: can the idea that it is legitimate to deport persons who are residing illegally on EU soil because they have not submitted an application for international protection - even though we know that, due to the Dublin II regulation, many potential asylum seekers do not submit these applications in the State in which they first arrive because their chances of seeing the procedure succeed are slim and the reception conditions are appalling - be deemed sufficient?