Übersetzung für "Ad absurdum führen" in Englisch

He gave him a blanket exemption, which would make nonsense of the whole system.

That would push our own paper and our own credibility ad absurdum.

Parliament could conduct itself ad absurdum in this way.

This is a reasoning which could, of course, be taken to extremes, bordering the absurd.

If Parliament does that it will be making a nonsense of our procedures.

Parliament could conduct itself ad absurdum in this way.

Voltaire intended to reduce this type of thought ad absurdum.

In the process, he lays tracks that occasionally lead our expectations ad absurdum.

With this ironic twist, the Talmud reduces human fantasies of omnipotence to absurdity.

However to lead this logic, ad absurdum, the contrary of this context also exists.

Far from reducing the latter to absurdity, it forms their complement.

The crisis could reduce the much-lauded "flexicurity strategy" of the Commission to political absurdity.

To down-value the redistributive aspect and function of the Community budget and underestimate the costs of enlargement for reasons connected with the present internal politics of one Member State or another would be not only a deplorable mistake but a near reductio ad absurdum of this process, which is decisive for the future of the European Union.

And are flag-ships to be allowed to continue making a nonsense of the whole of the CFP as it was originally developed?

Such a development would also make a nonsense of these countries' achievements in providing basic health and education support, which have contributed so much to furthering the well-being of their peoples.

The milk quota system was introduced precisely in order to reduce milk production and now we are to take it ad absurdum with BST.

The Council, the club of national government interests, is playing with fire if it believes it can provide for the urgent need for a more pan-European approach, social ecology, the principle of democracy, which also means participation, transparency and openness, and take the aims we set for the Intergovernmental Conference ad absurdum.

I think that it is high time that Parliament had the courage to be slightly less hypocritical, and for it to do what our fellow Members Chris Davies and Marco Cappato recently did in Great Britain; as MEPs, we must finally demonstrate the absurdity of these laws.

To reduce it to still more component parts would quite simply make an absurdity of our aim of simplifying the overall structure of the European Union’s overseas aid.

It is firstly unacceptable because exempting all of the nationals of a State would mean that the jurisdiction could only be selective and would therefore take the principle of the universality of justice to absurd lengths.

My own country's tradition and preference is to leave people like David Irving to condemn themselves by the absurdity of their unhistorical views and to be contradicted by vigorous debate.

And, if so, why not, reductio ad absurdum, begin monthly mammograms at age 15?