"platillo" in English

In Lisbon, a high-flown declaration was made that we would become the number one in the world.

It began with fanfares and ends with the passing-bell at a pauper’ s grave.

It began with fanfares and ends with the passing-bell at a pauper’s grave.

Let us therefore have a loud fanfare for this step towards direct democracy, European-style.

they launched their new product with a tremendous amount of hoopla

they're making a lot of noise about the new TV channel

The grandiose announcement of a new Employment Pact turned out in reality to be a castle in the air.

I do not at present see that in the position of the net contributing countries and in the obsession with 1%.

That weakens the very communication plan that the Commission has proposed with great ceremony: that is to say, Plan D.

MrYanukovych and the Party of the Regions won, but they are not trumpeting their victory from the rooftops.

It is now obvious that what we have is indeed the pig’s ear – perhaps not something we should be boasting about too loudly.

That was again brought home to me in a telephone call I received from Baghdad on Monday evening.

If this has happened, then none of these measures we have made so much fuss about will actually have put an ounce of pressure on the regime.

(EL) Madam President, certainly no European, and hence no Greek, likes to go round with a begging bowl.

it was announced with great fanfare

to roll out the red carpet for sb

The fact is that there is, in the region itself, nothing left of the loudly-trumpeted initiative for a new Middle East.

The G7 countries announced amid much publicity a debt reduction programme, but conditions are such that it cannot be applied.

We all recall the much publicised court case brought by 40 pharmaceutical companies against the South African Government on this issue.

At Modane, the destination of the first people leaving via the Fréjus Pass, of the 82 Kurds welcomed with such ceremony, 40 have vanished into thin air.