Translation of "Zu unserem nachteil" in English

We ignore the power of compound growth to our detriment.

Which puts us at a great strategic disadvantage.

And reducing us to statistics is something that's done at our peril.

Vampires have traditionally been very private, perhaps to our detriment.

And it was used to our detriment.

To our detriment, we often have it ours.

We also ignore at our peril the points made by Mr Pompidou and Mr Garosci and some of the Members on my left but politically on the Parliament's right.

It is doing this to gain market share to our detriment, but not only to the detriment of the European Union industry.

Humans are changing the natural environment so dramatically, and to our own detriment, that scientists believe we have entered a new geologic epoch – the “Anthropocene” – which began around 1950 and is characterized by unprecedented planetary pollution.

In that sometimes controversial address to academics, politicians and the wider Flanders community, Commissioner Flynn warned that "we ignore at our peril the human damage and dislocation caused by the scale of unemployment we face".

Meanwhile the Ecofin Council has undertaken to carry forward work on a number of structural proposals. Progress in the important areas which I have mentioned would represent, a major achievement.

And except in the preamble, the environment is not mentioned anywhere in the agreement.

Mr President, it is most regrettable that there is appar­ently what I might almost call an institutional conflict of interests between the sphere of influence assigned to this Parliament, concentrated as it is on non­compulsory expenditure, and that sector which has been developed furthest towards a true Commu­nity policy, namely the common agricultural policy.

To suggest that this question was not put on the agenda because, for policy reasons, people in charge of the machinery did not agree with the implication behind the question is dangerous and, I believe, unacceptable.

I am sure the honourable gentleman would not wish to cast aspersions on the validity of their mandates.

We are also afraid — and we have as a group stated this on several occasions — that these developments will in some way or other be accompanied by measures to economize on other important European funds. I mention in particular funds for the Third World.

But we feel that threats by this Parliament to do things that it probably will not ultimately fulfil will only show a hollowness which could rebound to our disadvantage ; and not just to our disadvantage but to the disadvantage of the disadvantaged in our European Community.

Here's an experiment we did at Harvard.

I have already said, in a balance of power which is clearly to our disadvantage, in noting our defeats and the vigorous taking in hand by capital (with it being understood that they never lost control).

They hold, grip, maintain things in their hands to our disadvantage, and our real strength is in our weakness.

Likewise, if we sin, we do this to our own detriment, and the Glory of God is unaffected.

Our employees are not authorized to make oral collateral agreements or promises going beyond the contents of the written contract, or to change these general terms and conditions of delivery and services to our disadvantage.

Yet that drive actually works against us, making us more likely to bluff, chase weak draws,or make questionable calls that a calmer mind might not have.

I must admit, however, that this new spirit of freedom worked to our disadvantage when the Socialist Workers Party candidate went on and on about the evils of capitalism as the clock ticked.