"relativizar" in English

You may compare that figure in terms of the population of your own country.

Finally, we should put disputes in perspective, as the Commissioner has sought to do.

Many ruses are being used to relativise communism's past.

We really should consider these problems of copper and lead in drinking water much more in their context.

Here too, we need to adopt a more relative or qualified approach.

We focus on what we have achieved so that criticism of what has not yet been done will be made relative.

We are talking about values that are quite simply beyond dispute and which cannot be treated in relative terms.

Nothing justifies relativising the value of human life.

Finally, Mr President, problems have their hierarchy and we must set things out in relative terms.

In spite of this effort, in spite of this applause, we are all the same forced to put our compliments into perspective.

To my mind, this makes the reservations which the rapporteur mentions in his report somewhat relative.

It can never do enough to compromise its values in the name of tolerance and the so-called 'right to difference'.

Without wanting to qualify that information, however, we have also heard it said that the government definitely wants to make efforts in that direction.

No one can dispute that millions fell victim to the Stalinist dictatorship, entire peoples were dislocated, and no one can exonerate or relativise that.

Such a policy should bring the overcautious monetarism of the ECB into perspective and should break with the neo-liberal principles of privatisation and undermining social protection.

As far as massive imports of meat into Europe are concerned, I would qualify the term "massive" somewhat, because relatively little beef is imported into the European Union.

Thirdly, there is the logic according to which it is impossible to adapt the nature of measures, otherwise the principle of strict penal legality will be called into question.

A question which has been made even more relevant in recent days by President Jiang Zemin, who has spoken of the differences of rights depending on where one is on the planet.

As far as massive imports of meat into Europe are concerned, I would qualify the term " massive " somewhat, because relatively little beef is imported into the European Union.

The populists disguised as democrats who, by weakening the democratic institutions and relativising the democratic principle, create the most favourable environment for extremists?