This attempt had never been made before.

Our amendments are an attempt to change that just a little.

The attempt to increase economic activity may undermine environmental protection.

That would be a wholly misguided attempt at a solution to my mind.

30290 I should like to congratulate the rapporteur on this successful attempt.

This is where we hit a major problem.

17636 It is therefore women who have been hardest hit.

This is the first time that floods have hit our département.

The beef and veal sector has been doubly hit by disaster.

It is true that pigfarmers have been hit by an historic slump in prices.

24819 There was a poster of her urging all the passers - by to drink milk.

The poster has got ragged and shabby and curling at the edges.

Our governments must stop this and we must stop them supporting it.

We should stop financing this regime and we should certainly stop supplying arms for the war.

I could stop speaking now.

Stop playing with our food.

But thinking does not stop.

This bill has not yet been adopted.

It was a lie, and now we are having to foot a much higher bill.

1228 The taxpayer is still footing the bill.

They collapse and people lose jobs and our social security bill increases.

Prices have hit rock - bottom, and the monthly wages bill can no longer be covered from beef production.

This is a blow that they just cannot cope with.

One bad news story may blow confidence in e - trade for years.

This new authority will not strike a blow for freedom in terms of consumer policy.

People 's faith in the rule of law and political power has been dealt a sharp blow.

The environmental organisations may be regarded as acting as blow lamps on us politicians.

It has a knock - on effect.

We learn from our knock - backs, albeit with some delay.

It has a knock - on effect in other areas, especially where there are shared coastlines.

This has a knock - on effect on other companies as well.

These environmental problems have a knock - on effect beyond coastal regions to inland regions.

You can move a sack of potatoes around Europe more easily than a citizen can move.

Every time you try to move a country or move a continent, history grabs you by the ankles.

We must move in this direction.

I think that would be a good move.

We can only welcome such a move.

To me that is not a sign of progress, but a sign of madness.

31400 That is a good sign.

I feel that is a very important sign.

I have seen no sign of this.

It was possible to sign real agreements.

We must strike a balance between them.

No doubt they strike a happy medium.

I should like finally to strike a biblical note.

Twelve political prisoners dead from hunger strike.

We need always to strike the right balance.

We must no longer accept this as a stroke of fate but must do something about it.

I now turn to the content.

I turn now to the amendments.

I now turn to another subject.

I turn to the question at hand.

We should not turn things round.

Poverty is an assault on the family.

Everybody wins from such an assault on poverty.

They therefore also understand that manipulation of the press is an assault on democracy.

I have asthma attack after asthma attack.

There are several angles of attack.

I am the last person to attack subsidiarity.

7502 Their minds are under attack as well.

It certainly does not deserve this misguided attack.

It was an outrage, and continues to be an outrage, that we develop these weapons.

It is now crying out in outrage about quota - hopping.

Owing to the short - term disadvantages, everyone expresses outrage and opposition to fishing quotas.

The tragedy provoked when the security forces stormed the jails caused public outrage.

This clause is a violation of international law.

This is a flagrant violation of human dignity.

This case is concerned only with a purely administrative violation.

We even adopt numerous resolutions condemning every violation of human rights.

What we are talking about here is a double human rights violation.

We want to know why because it is important in our estimation.

We must no longer accept this as a stroke of fate but must do something about it.

I have a key witness here.

This is patently a key point.

Destruction is also the key.

That is of key importance.