"golpe de gracia" in English

Without strict conditions, self-handling will be the kiss of death for ordinary dockers.

If this is adopted, however, we shall be promoting negative globalisation and social disintegration.

Communism was mortally wounded at the Gdansk shipyard in August 1980, and received its nine years later in 1989.

Communism was mortally wounded at the Gdansk shipyard in August1980, and received its nine years later in 1989.

to deliver the coup de grâce

I note with interest the death knell that Mr Barroso, President of the European Commission, has just sounded to the defunct European Constitution.

I note with interest the death knell that MrBarroso, President of the European Commission, has just sounded to the defunct European Constitution.

the finish

coup de grâce

There is a real fear that what is happening at the WTO will mean the death knell for many farmers, not just in Ireland, but throughout the European Union.

As Dominique Souchet noted, given that the death of the franc is a fatal blow to the CFA franc, it is thus also a fatal blow to the whole of French-speaking Africa.

Mr President, I hereby state from the outset that, if the Commission's new proposals are implemented, they will be the for Mediterranean products.

But the final blow to a progressive European project is perhaps his idea of European culture: he seems to consider this in terms of the past and believes it to be our only heritage.

(ES) Madam President, we would have liked to see Mr Mandelson still in his place here, rather than having bolted, which appears to have been the European Union's coup de grace to the Doha Round.