Translation of "Rein rhetorisch" in English

One could dismiss this dispute as being mere rhetoric.

It is a rhetorical question, but who of us knows anything about the European political parties?

Aside from this exercise - which was not at all rhetorical, because it seems to me to be somewhat contradictory, Mr Paasilinna, as you must realise -, I would like to say that even Paasilinna I, which I personally support, seems to fall a little short of what we might have expected. We are faced with a global challenge.

At the end, I ask myself rhetorically if Europe will stop buying coal and steel from outside the Community if it does not want to align with the European Union environmental protection programme.

In view of conversations I have had with the Council and with the Commission while drafting this report, I can assure you that this request is not simply a rhetorical one.

The Committee warns that people's expectations will be disappointed if they are given a Charter of Fundamental Rights that cannot be enforced and which they would therefore have to see as pure rhetoric.

The Committee warns that people's expectations will be disappointed if they are given a Charter of Fundamental Rights that cannot be enforced and which they would therefore have to see as pure rhetoric.

However, it is largely a rhe­torical law, and lacks 'teeth' because it does not specify concrete sanctions.

I say this rhetorically, since I should think it is obvious, but if I were involved in this in any way, or if my intentions were anything less than honorable, would I have come to Atlantis?

Williamson and Don Faure prove with evidence that they no longer recognize the Roman authorities if not in a purely rhetorical.

The Free Gaza Movement and the Freedom Flotilla have challenged the blockade more effectively than the UN or governments, leading Israel to retreat, at least rhetorically, claiming to lift the blockade with respect to the entry of humanitarian goods and reconstruction materials.

These tectonics, however, are entirely rhetorical, as they lie in the elaboration of reliefs in the plaster surface, while the actual construction is made of standard lightweight concrete masonry blocks.

A very difficult question, the answer to which will be purely rhetorical: pay more attention to the education of minors, in every way create a healthy psychological environment around them.

Most would see the question as rhetorical; it's obvious that it can't.

They are therefore purely rhetorical: From the word go it is assumed that the Community and its policies will play a positive role in economic recovery and cohesion, as a confirmation of thirty-five years of Community policy.

These questions are neither provocative nor purely rhetorical.

I think, Mr President, that it is now time that we moved from words to actions and that we stopped making purely rhetorical statements.

What we have to do now is turn declarations into deeds, so that our actions do not remain merely rhetorical, particularly in relation to the fight against terrorism.

I would like to express my support for the Russian authorities in their quest to arrest and prosecute the people responsible for this horrific attack quickly, and I can assure you all that my emotions are not purely rhetorical. I have visited Chechnya and Ingushetia;

It is now time to move from words to actions so that we do not just carry on making purely rhetorical statements.

I wish to add, Commissioner, that if this aspect of the political dialogue is to have any credibility, there is one essential requirement which must be respected: that of adapting our discourse to the reality of cooperation and of turning words into action so that we move beyond simply rhetorical declarations.

It is a fact, ladies and gentlemen, and not an opinion, that the three basic principles put forward to justify the need for the Directive - the health and safety of workers, road safety and fair competition - are mere words if we exclude independent workers.

This is a serious situation, not least in that it makes things even more confusing for the citizens: the citizens cannot distinguish between the parts of the conclusions that will be transformed into decisions at national level, the parts intended to be a practical guideline for the Union institutions, particularly for the Council of Ministers, and the parts which, on the other hand, are merely rhetoric and will be duly overlooked at the Summit or during the next Presidency.

Mr President-in-Office of the Council, it is important to move on from words to actions and leave behind purely rhetorical statements, because you have signed a document reducing the European Union’s ambitions and budgetary resources.