France began by deriding the pretensions of the Americans.
La France commença par rire de la prétention des Américains.
In bourgeois society deriding socialism and workers has always been rewarded.
Dans la société bourgeoise, la dérision envers le socialisme et les ouvriers a toujours été récompensée.
Greater investment is imperative and rather than deriding the programmes which fail, it is instead important to re-assess the assumptions and understandings that underpin different approaches.
Il est impératif d’investir davantage et, au lieu de railler les programmes qui échouent, il est important de réévaluer les présupposés et conceptions qui soustendent différentes approches.
By placing yourself in the camp of injustice and discrimination, by deriding the scientific foundations of the common fisheries policy, you have given our sea-going populations the image of a distant and cavalier European Union, one that is indifferent and contemptuous.
En vous plaçant dans le camp de l'injustice et de la discrimination, en vous moquant des fondements scientifiques de la politique commune de la pêche, vous avez donné à nos populations maritimes l'image d'une Union européenne lointaine et désinvolte, indifférente et méprisante.
On the contrary, you are deriding the true victims of National Socialism and playing down what the fascist dictators did.
Au contraire, vous bafouez les véritables victimes du national-socialisme et minimisez les dictatures fascistes.
It seems to me that you delight in deriding anything... that is not on your particular wavelength.
J'ai l'impression que tu aimes tourner en dérision tout ce que tu ne comprends pas.
We need an objective base, and we must depart from such power words as fear, from stirring up fear, from deriding things.
Il nous faut une base objective, nous devons cesser de tenir un langage de peur, d'attiser les angoisses et de privilégier les scénarios apocalyptiques.
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