complaisamment

Nous pouvons persister complaisamment dans l'inertie du statu quo.
We can linger complacently in the inertia of the status quo.
M. Barnier a d' ailleurs complaisamment souligné, lors de son audition la semaine dernière, que le processus de préparation de la Charte devrait rejoindre le processus de constitutionnalisation des traités.
Mr Barnier even complacently stressed, during his hearing last week, that the process of preparing the Charter should be brought together with the process of constitutionalising the Treaties.
La société de l'information n'est qu'un leurre, complaisamment utilisé ici pour tenter de confisquer la plus ancienne et la plus belle des propriétés, la propriété intellectuelle.
The information society is no more than a snare and we are indulgently allowing it to be used here in an attempt to confiscate the most timeless and most precious thing we can own - intellectual property.
Il s’agit là d’une drôle de conception de la démocratie représentative relayée complaisamment par les médias.
That is a strange idea of representative democracy passed on with the complicity of the media.
Ils s'enfoncent plus profondément dans leurs fauteuils et tentent complaisamment de se convaincre que le secteur le plus florissant d'Europe n'a nul besoin d'aide ni de compréhension.
They sink back deeper in their deck chairs and tan themselves in complacency believing Europe's most successful industry needs neither help nor understanding.
La bourgeoisie du monde entier qui contemple complaisamment le massacre en masse après la bataille, est convulsée d'horreur devant la profanation de la brique et du mortier !
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar!
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