Translation of "Standpunkt beharren" in English

I'll stand my ground like the king that I am!

Man, your husband can really dig in his heels.

Why you shouldn't insist on your point of view.

Germany seems to stand by the firm line it drew in Vilnius in September.

Will you try to convey to Member States the clear signal which the MEPs have sent out and will you dig your heels in, should Member States insist on an à la carte approach?

The EU must therefore remain firm in its position that all scientific data must be provided.

We have to stand firm on our views, give a clear message and not give in at this stage, for otherwise, alas, the Council will make an even worse job of it.

If the Commission holds fast to its legal position, then I appeal in equally urgent terms to the Spanish President of the Council.

My answer is this: if we stay where we are, like the proverbial dog in the manger, the hay – Russia’s economy – will rot.

The Committee will therefore not insist on this point, feeling that the prime considerations are the quality of the Commission's work and respect for subsidiarity.

If the Council maintains its position in this respect, the Committee takes the view that for the activities of the JRC to acquire the critical mass needed to guarantee a high profile and practical results it will have to focus its efforts on just a few spheres of excellence, in accordance with the new approach of the 5th FP, cutting down the number of institutes.

Firstly, the guiding thread in the Commission's proposal is to make quotas superfluous through an automatic annual increase in the Community authorizations of 40%.

The levels proposed by Mr Schmid's amendments will perhaps be revised downwards one day, as we gradually improve our knowledge of cellular biology and carry out the epidemiology, dare I say it, of a non contagious disease, or in any case a systematic investigation of the effects produced by the fixation of nuclear radiation.

I must say it will be a scandal if it really insists on that position!

On com pulsory distillation there is no difference of opinion between the Commission and Parliament on the sub stance, but again for technical reasons the Commission prefers its own view.

Since the debate we have had in Parliament this part-session, I must tell you, Mr President, that we still take the view that the French Government has not complied with Article 34 of the EAEC Treaty, since nuclear arms testing must in our opinion be regarded as particularly dangerous experiments.

The Hungarians also alleged that the European Commission maintained its proposal to amend the posting directive, despite the fact that fourteen chambers of national parliaments from the Member States, including Hungary, were against it.

In one report Robertson Smith stated that the best female students in the Natural Philosophy class undoubtedly reached a level of achievement comparable with that of the most able male students, although he felt that the women often hesitated to insist on their point of view even if they recognised a counter-argument as nonsense.

If we are scholars, and if we are convinced that our method and our results are correct, we also have the duty to defend ourselves and to not defect from our positions.

I also believe it to be of crucial importance for us to keep saying to Turkey that our opinion, as adopted in Helsinki, is as follows: we cannot start membership negotiations until you have met the political criteria of Copenhagen.

Factoring in any other economic or fiscal considerations could prolong the argument indefinitely: no-one will budge from their position, justifying it on valid domestic policy grounds.