Translation of "Verständnis bitten" in English

In these circumstances, all that we can ask from Europe is patience and understanding.

Here too I must ask for your understanding.

I would ask for your understanding.

However, I must also plead here for your understanding.

I've come here today to ask for understanding.

I will ask them to understand.

I've come here today to ask for understanding.

I will ask for Reporter Nam's understanding.

We thank you for your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience.

It is not to plead understanding.

We thank you for your understanding and ask you to report any problems.

We can but ask for the reader's understanding, for we have found no other solution.

We thank you for your understanding and apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

I would also ask you for your patience if I don't write back immediately. I'm only human ;)

Mr Hans van den Broek is presently at a Council meeting in Luxembourg, so I must apologize for his absence and ask you to accept making do with me instead.

I hope you will understand that, in Bosnia, we are largely dependent on the cooperation of the authorities.

That I think is something we can all understand and I would ask colleagues here who know she is a very hard working woman to please understand that.

Mr President, in expressing my thanks to the rapporteur, may I also ask him and the Members who have been taking part in this debate to accept the apologies of my colleague Mr de Silguy, who is unable to be here this morning.

However, I must ask you to appreciate that we cannot be more precise about this until Agenda 2000 has been concluded and we have started to implement its objectives.

While expressing the deepest understanding of the requests and pleas put forward by the forces of democracy in Albania, we are unfortunately in no doubt that the OECD mission, under Italian control, will not only fail to provide them with any satisfaction or support but will eventually cause damage - not irreparable, we trust -to the cause of democracy, the return to normality and the restoration of peace in Albanian society.

That is how it should be in a democracy and therefore I would once again call on your understanding that we cannot provide more information until the time when the investigation is completed, the necessary conclusions can be drawn and I am very willing to keep the respective parliamentary committees or Members of Parliament informed on this subject.

I should also like to thank Mr Lange, and I would ask you to understand that, although we are now in a position to take this matter forward to the conciliation procedure, the Commission cannot accept amendments which go beyond the Auto/Oil Programme II. That applies in particular to Amendment No 5 and the other amendments connected with it.

However, I must ask the honourable Member to appreciate that in managing the enormous amounts of money involved in the Structural Funds, we give priority not only to flexibility and speed, but also to rigorous financial control.

Under such conditions, I would ask the honourable Member to be kind enough to understand that at this stage, any exegesis of the documents agreed in Amsterdam would be inopportune, especially as the only institution accredited, in our view, to interpret the text of these treaties, is the European Court of Justice.