But we must not abandon political responsibility.

We must, for example, abandon coeducation in some matters.

We have to abandon the emphasis on domestic action.

Both on ethical and scientific grounds, we must abandon cannibalism.

So we should maintain this balance here and certainly not abandon it.

25776 It had become desert land.

If they did not it would be a wilderness, a desert, chaos.

I am thinking particularly of areas where the desert is literally burying the productive land.

23632 This is equivalent to waiting for rain in the desert and then one drop falling every square kilometre.

It is too early to see one system as a universal panacea and dismiss another.

Furthermore, we should not dismiss the result of this trial run of the codecision procedure.

We must give up this habitual way of thinking.

21421 Parliament cannot and will not give up its rights of codecision.

It can, nonetheless, be a painful process to give up dossiers on which one has been working.

It would be better to give up the idea of a directive rather than establish such a time limit.

Results to date are admittedly not too promising but we must not give up.

30873 Hence the worrying decline in meat consumption.

This is why people decline the office of mayor.

Such strategies would lead in the medium term to stagnation and decline.

The truth is, indeed, that we find ourselves in a time of democratic decline.

There are many reasons for the decline in the railways.

Every year, we discard a huge amount of cars which contain many dangerous substances.

Healthy waste products from the abattoir are valuable providers of protein which we should not discard.

It is too early to see one system as a universal panacea and dismiss another.

Furthermore, we should not dismiss the result of this trial run of the codecision procedure.

Seventy, eighty, ninety per cent of their ships have serious defects.

Parliament will be adopting positions on some eighty food safety directives.

However, we propose six amendments.

I had proposed six to twelve months.

We have therefore reduced them to six.

It is a crucial test of the sincerity of our declarations and we must not flunk it.

You will leave here today wiser and the only thing we would like is to leave more informed.

We challenged them and asked them to leave; we got the security people to ask them to leave.

I just leave that as a question mark.

We cannot leave it simply to governments.

We cannot leave them to struggle alone.

You will leave here today wiser and the only thing we would like is to leave more informed.

We challenged them and asked them to leave; we got the security people to ask them to leave.

I just leave that as a question mark.

We cannot leave it simply to governments.

We cannot leave them to struggle alone.

We reject government by officials as much as we reject government by judges.

We energetically reject it.

I emphatically reject such insinuations.

I emphatically reject that proposition.

We shall reject these amendments.

We repudiate that kind of intolerance.

30518 Indeed, we must repudiate discrimination at all times.

Nevertheless you will of course allow me first of all to repudiate this description here.

The third strand is specific policy.

The third strand in the content is enlargement.

Finally, the fourth strand is the role of companies, the social responsibility of companies.

I repeat: we need to protect sport, not to abandon it.

29337 We therefore need to abandon the aforesaid exceptions in order to avoid distortion of competition.

We have to abandon the emphasis on domestic action.

Nobody wants to abandon their land, their culture or their family.

To fail to act would be like an ostrich burying its head in the sand.

It can, nonetheless, be a painful process to give up dossiers on which one has been working.

It would be better to give up the idea of a directive rather than establish such a time limit.

We also support the need for the military to give up some of their air space.

Our first act must therefore be not only to refuse to accept this situation but to publicly denounce it.

Their logical response is to refuse to pay.

I think it is perfectly right to refuse to authorise this additive.

It would be a mistake to reject quotas, as the parties are being urged to do.

Opponents want to reject this directive and would prefer to wait for a fresh proposal in the short term.

I invite colleagues to reject that proposal.

This, to my mind, is reason enough to reject this report.

That is why we voted in favour of the motion to reject this budget, contrary to the guidelines proposed.