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Mr President, Burma, since the sixties, has isolated itself from the world at large, at great cost to its own people.

Señor Presidente, desde los años sesenta Birmania se ha aislado del mundo en general con un elevado coste para su pueblo.

she helped me out, at great cost to herself

sacrificó mucho al ayudarme

This represents an immense loss of hard-working hands and educated minds, people who were educated in their countries at great cost.

Este flujo representa una inmensa pérdida de mano de obra y cerebros, de personas que recibieron formación en sus países con un enorme coste.

During the recent financial crisis, many financial institutions around the world failed at great cost to the taxpayer.

Durante la reciente crisis financiera, han quebrado en todo el mundo numerosas entidades financieras, lo que ha supuesto enormes costes para los contribuyentes.

at great cost

a un alto precio

We are back to food mountains at great cost to EU tax payers - back to the bad old days - and none of us want to see that.

Volveremos a las montañas de alimentos tan onerosas para los contribuyentes de la UE -como en otros tiempos de nefasto recuerdo- y ninguno de nosotros queremos que suceda eso.

I say this to all our colleagues here: wrapping yourself in red tape and potentially adding great cost to consumers is not pro-consumer.

Digo esto a todos nuestros colegas aquí: envolverse en burocracia y añadir potencialmente un gran coste para los consumidores no significa estar a favor del consumidor.

We might benefit in the heavily populated urban areas, the normally profitable areas, but at a very great cost to the non-urban areas.

Podríamos beneficiarnos de ellas en las zonas urbanas intensamente pobladas, las zonas normalmente rentables, pero a costa de grandes perjuicios para las zonas no urbanas.

In the UK, the pig-farming industry learnt - to its great cost - the mistake of introducing higher animal welfare standards unilaterally.

En el Reino Unido, la industria de la cría de porcinos aprendió -por un coste elevado- la lección equívoca de introducir unilateralmente normas de bienestar animal más estrictas.

After all, it is much easier to take simplifying measures in the early stages than to adapt existing legislation later on, at great cost, also for businesses.

Es mucho más sencillo simplificar en la fase previa que adaptar la legislación existente a posteriori, porque conlleva muchos gastos, también para las empresas.

We have learned our lessons at great cost, but China has yet to learn how to implement human rights internally while already experimenting in colonial rule.

Nos ha costado mucho aprender nuestra lección, pero China aún tiene que aprender a implantar los derechos humanos a nivel interno, al tiempo que ya está experimentando con el régimen colonial.

It is an old Danish model, dating right back to the late 19th century, whereby security not enshrined in contracts of employment is guaranteed by the government, at great cost.

Es un viejo modelo danés, que se remonta a finales del siglo XIX, según el cual el Estado garantiza la seguridad que no garantizan los contratos de trabajo, con un elevado coste.

Then there is the issue of malicious allegations - in which, sadly, we have seen a huge increase - putting a lot of employers to great expense and to great cost.

Además, está la cuestión de las alegaciones maliciosas -de las que hemos visto, lamentablemente, un gran aumento que obligan a muchos empleadores a hacer grandes gastos y afrontar grandes costos.

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