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.

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.

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.

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.

The action plan being discussed is a major measure to strengthen external action.

Declarations of principles have been followed not by action but by delays in action.

4622 We have action plans and conventions but what we want is action, not good intentions.

In other words, action is only proposed if it offers added value in relation to national action.

That is social dialogue in action, and subsidiarity in action.

It would be a rearguard battle.

However the battle against big tobacco continues.

If not, we will be fighting a running battle.

It is about a battle between civilisation and barbarism.

Children are conscripted by force and deployed in battle.

There should not be a clash on that.

Parliament must handle this clash very carefully.

This is especially important in border regions, where several cultures clash.

We clash with the experience of others rather than listening to it.

5247 With every passing moment, we are rushing towards the danger of a military clash which must be avoided.

We must combat discrimination and poverty.

It is terribly difficult to combat.

It is the originators we must combat.

We all want to combat cyber crime.

We cannot combat alcoholism by restricting supply.

Their fight for power is essentially a fight for drugs.

To fight against racism is to fight for democracy and to assume a fundamental mission.

The fight must be ongoing.

The country must fight corruption actively.

11908 We must fight against it.

We cannot leave them to struggle alone.

We can now say that this struggle has been successful.

It is a fact that many small firms struggle because of late payments.

This fight represents a pointless or impossible struggle against all that we take for granted.

Those developing countries that struggle along on the basis of one product will run into difficulties.