Translation of "Vorauseilender gehorsam" in English

Or was it a predisposed obedience towards the Council?

Anxious obedience is a better description of such behaviour.

Know nothing, hear nothing, see nothing - Germany's policy toward Islamism: Calculation or anticipatory obedience?

His prosecutorial practice – extreme caution and indecision in one instance, and anticipatory obedience in another – has made it more than obvious that what the office of Prosecutor needs most is personal integrity and independence, and an entirely non-political approach. Nothing less is required if the International Criminal Court is ever to be accepted and sustained as a permanent institution.

In companies this fear-system becomes visible by good behaviour, exaggerated conformism, blind obedience, renunciation and restricting one’s own creative potential, inhibition of the development of one’s own potential, inner dismiss, manipulating projection and projective identification etc.

For these conditions of existence are constantly foreseen and co-produced in anticipatory obedience.

Contrast with the crowd through especially far reaching preemptive obedience.

Thebudo association praises your preemptive obedience.

Jews and political dissidents are discarded with anticipatory obedience.

The Jahn School was a prime example of anticipatory obedience, and expelled its Jewish pupils immediately.

Others underscore the anticipated obedience, better put: the extensive freedoms of the "paladins."

In this case, we have already achieved some things, or else others have conceded things to us - perhaps in anticipation of obedience to Parliament. For example, the director of the Agency must present a quarterly report on its activities to Parliament; the European Parliament must follow the discharge procedure and certify to the director that the budget plan has been implemented correctly; and the Commission must present to Parliament an annual report approved by the Agency' s administrative board.

I ask the House to adopt this resolution and to give it to the delegation to take with it, rather than keeping quiet about our political position on the human rights situation in Colombia out of some over-hasty sense of obedience.

Are we an extension of the national governments, hastening to show obedience by refraining from making essential demands of the Intergovernmental Conference?

But, Commissioner, it is better that we, the Commission and Parliament tell the Council, "here is the proposed law, confess your inactivity' than that the Commission, prematurely obedient, makes no proposals at all, but sends another statement as food for thought.

In early obedience, as it were, to the vote which, I assume, will be a large majority in favour.

Sadly, however, the committee paid no further attention to this issue, but instead merely reaffirmed its reluctance to cause the Council any problems. Consequently, in its haste to show obedience, it dispensed with its traditional right to conduct a proper second reading of the Services Directive.

But, Commissioner, it is better that we, the Commission and Parliament tell the Council, 'here is the proposed law, confess your inactivity' than that the Commission, prematurely obedient, makes no proposals at all, but sends another statement as food for thought.