With the agency reports this morning and this afternoon the news continues to be grim.

The result will be exceptionally heavy pressure on prices.

Everyone who works in the sector bears a heavy responsibility.

The fact is that this policy bears a heavy burden.

The elusive international community bears a heavy responsibility for this.

All we need is a ban on transiting heavy goods traffic.

Parliament is keen that we should produce readable texts.

You are said to be a keen and energetic cyclist.

I am keen, therefore, to share with you my initial reaction.

For no one is very keen to spend money on culture.

You will understand that we are keen to keep this text.

Whole populations live in destitution.

We must live with our consciences.

Oh well, we live and learn.

We have to stop live exports.

They live in destitution and permanent insecurity.

24888 I have a rough idea of what is happening in the country.

I have only given you a rough indication, and a personal opinion at that.

Think what could have happened if that had been in rough seas at night.

Yesterday 's elections have been a rough competition on who is best to fight our political option.

In fact, this first report is intended as a rough draft, the matrix of a new method.

You will certainly have to work hard, but something tells me that you are not afraid of hard work.

We need hard and fast rules.

I believe they have worked very hard.

We find this hard to grasp.

It has been a long and hard road.

It has been a very difficult task and, excuse the pun, a difficult road for him to travel down.

It is a difficult treaty that is difficult to understand.

This is a difficult debate.

These are difficult issues.

7425 He has a difficult task.

Democracy may be inconvenient, but it is all we have between freedom and tyranny.

I am cold, absolutely freezing.

The virus harms cold - blooded animals.

Please stop being so unpleasant and pouring cold water on everything.

18783 I am quite convinced that this leaves the population completely cold.

I must, of course, pour just a little cold water on one point.

3575 We are being cruel to be kind.

That is a cruel, scandalous and, in my view, unsuccessful strategy.

There are more humane, less cruel ways of hunting and killing.

A person 's ethnic origin can never entitle them to use cruel trapping methods.

This is our contribution to this cruel profession, which is increasingly beset by greater insecurity.

Two out of four problems unsolved elicited a pitiless " unsatisfactory " from him.

Language is a powerful force.

It is now a powerful body.

We have acquired a powerful tool.

The resolution sends out a powerful message.

That makes for a pretty powerful brew.

In severe circumstances people die.

I will be severe from now on.

We also saw evidence of severe deprivation.

The last crisis was exceptionally long and severe.

However, the sanctions must not be disproportionately severe.

We are not unmoved by the scale of this phenomenon.

This austere attitude has also typified my approach to the budget.

The brutal regime will be toppled.

Leghold traps are extremely brutal instruments and must be banned.

Colonial rule, which destroyed the country 's traditional structures, was followed by a brutal war.

Likewise, business is booming in the brutal trade in women.

The more brutal the scene, the more money can be made out of it.

Secondly, the population endures harsh conditions of poverty.

All of these refugees have to endure harsh conditions.

It offers opportunities for regions where natural conditions are harsh.

The harsh and tragic figures are there for all to see.

Hence the repression which has lasted for years and is even becoming increasingly harsh.

A laborious conciliation procedure would entail an unnecessary delay, at the expense of the environment.

I think we should be capable of saying this loud and clear.

We want to make that message as loud and clear and unequivocal as we possibly can.

Ending up empty - handed does not suggest shrewd statesmanship.

We introduced strict controls.

I believe strict guidelines are necessary.

I am in favour of strict labelling i.

It clearly involves very strict testing.

Therefore, the rules on this are strict.

We must be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime.

It is the subject of constant and tough discussion.

We hear talk of extremely difficult discussions and tough negotiations.

First of all, we need tough regulations, which can be implemented.

I think that very tough demands should be made of the car industry.