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"fob" in Spanish
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"fob" in Spanish
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Parliament should not be fobbed off by the Commission's willingness to submit an annual report.
El Parlamento no debe dejarse engañar por el hecho de que la Comisión se preste a presentar un informe anual.
to fob(also: to cheat, to dupe, to hoodwink, to humbug)
Those considering these matters have adequate knowledge of what people might get up to not to be fobbed off by a solution which has obvious holes.
Las personas que están estudiando estos asuntos están bien preparadas para no dejarse embaucar por una solución que no ofrezca las garantías necesarias.
Commissioner, please do not just fob us off with the same old line that Member States are responsible for implementation and checks.
Por favor, señora Comisaria, no nos embauque con la misma línea anticuada de que los Estados miembros son responsables de la aplicación y las supervisiones.
In this the EU has shown its true colours as a purely economic community that fobs off the socially underprivileged with peanuts and empty words.
En esto, a la UE se le ha visto el plumero como comunidad puramente económica que embauca a los socialmente desfavorecidos con cacahuetes y palabras vanas.
to fob(also: to cajole, to coax, to dupe, to wheedle)
No one in Europe is going to be fobbed off with fine words.
Nadie en Europa se deja engatusar por las buenas palabras.
You continue to fob us off with two-page summaries of the results of whole negotiating rounds.
Ustedes nos continúan engatusando con resúmenes de dos páginas con los resultados de rondas enteras de negociaciones.
What has happened is totally unacceptable and we have been fobbed off with spurious pretexts.
Lo que ha ocurrido es totalmente inadmisible, y hemos sido engatusados con falsos pretextos.
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Mr President-in-Office, do not let them fob you off with something ready-cooked.
Señor Presidente del Consejo, no se deje ablandar metiéndose a remojo.
However, this should not be a reason for us to fob off the Macedonians with mere thanks, as it were.
Pero esto no debería ser una razón para que, por así decir, nos limitemos simplemente a felicitar a los macedonios.
We cannot fob all of them off by saying that we will identify the important solution to the agricultural crisis in 2013.
No podemos engatusarles a todos diciendo que identificaremos la solución a la crisis agrícola en 2013.
to fob sth off onto sb
enjaretarle algo a algn
to fob sth off onto sb
encajarle algo a algn
The Commission, I believe, uses them to fob off responsibility, but then interferes arbitrarily in their business in specific cases.
Creo que la Comisión los utiliza para eludir toda responsabilidad, pero luego interfiere de manera arbitraria en su actividad en ocasiones específicas.
I know that it is a difficult position and that, very often, with China, with other countries, we fob ourselves off with fine words and then go and do the opposite.
Sé que es una posición difícil y que, con mucha frecuencia, como ocurre con China y otros países, nos conformamos con hermosas palabras para después hacer otra cosa.
I hope that the Commissioner will not fob us off again with a bromide that our textile industry has had ten years to adjust, for that would be the height of oversimplification.
– Señor Presidente, Señorías, el informe del Grupo de alto nivel sobre el sector textil contiene indicaciones sobre siete acciones para apoyar la competitividad del sector.
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