Übersetzung für "Allgemeinplätze" in Englisch

Practical measures are lacking, however, and platitudes remain ineffectual.

The question should therefore be put to the competent Commissioner, at the next opportunity.

I can still tax only a couple of space commonplaces.

Terms such as “Bauhaus style” or “The Bauhaus idea” have become commonplace.

His address On the Longitude only contained generalities and did not impress.

She spoke in evasive bromides.

Nothing but platitudes and exaggerations which no one who lives in Catalonia believes....

I didn't speak to Metzger and his people about this subject—only about generalities.

Talk only about generalities, the play, the roads, the weather.

Mr President, the conclusions reached at the Turin Summit from my point of view deal very correctly with a certain number of extremely important points concerning the revision of the Treaties, although it has to be recognised in certain cases that we have not got any further than a few platitudes.

If we are simply going to come here and make vague statements, perhaps we should turn our attention to something else.

Can we expect to hear just platitudes and wishy-washy statements about the employment situation at the end of the year, or will you also address sensitive issues?

The 370 million Europeans, whether or not they will participate in the euro, are not asking for information on the main general points, interspersed with overviews of monetary history since the Middle Ages.

As a result, it fails to deal with immediate priorities and, more importantly, only addresses in vague and general terms the problem of permissible limits on emissions of greenhouse gases and the definition of new, or at least improved, standards and rules which need to be applied at local and regional level and promoted at international level.

On the other hand, there is no doubt that genetic engineering in the medical field gives rise to ethical problems which are more serious than those elsewhere, and we note that the Purvis resolution, in paragraph 61, takes cover behind pious generalities, while avoiding specifically tackling the problem that is currently the most urgent: that of cloning for therapeutic purposes.

This task can seem daunting, and it is easy to descend into generalities or stray into areas of such deep disagreement that differences are reinforced not overcome.

Does the Commission not think that the restrictions should be counterbalanced by positive measures including particularly necessary measures to break the deadlock in negotiations for a fishing agreement with Canada to give the Community fleet opportunities for catches in those sectors which are subject to restrictions this year?

Despite rhetorical bromides about requiring “ministers to unlearn ingrained habits and focus on substance, not rhetoric,” and about “business associations engaging with the granular detail of what companies want,” this proposed Plan B would strengthen the bilateral and regional trade initiatives that have diverted energy and attention from Doha and the WTO.

If, for me – as the Chairman of the Board and having no relevant specialist knowledge – the situation was not clear, then perhaps it is understandable that people who are even less involved with technology and science in their daily lives found it all the more difficult to understand and would rather take refuge in generalities, but at the same time are not ready to accept responsibility.

However, the G20's opportunities to influence the numerous and far-reaching reforms planned for the Gulf monarchies will be limited, especially since the common approach of the 20 most important industrialised and emerging countries concentrates on very few general points where structural adjustment and tax reform issues are concerned.