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Thus the Council has saddled itself with a very crowded agenda for 1999.
Le Conseil s'est par même imposé un lourd agenda pour 1999.
World War II, another outgrowth of the Depression, has saddled us with a permanently swollen defense budget.
Seconde Guerre mondiale, une autre excroissance de la dépression, nous a sellé avec un budget en permanence gonflé de défense.
Madrid has been compelled, or has deemed it necessary, to genuflect before the International Monetary Fund which has saddled it with a harsh austerity plan.
Madrid a été contraint, ou a cru l’être, de passer sous les fourches caudines du Fonds monétaire international qui lui a imposé un sévère plan d’austérité.
In recent years, the budgetary authority has saddled the Commission with a mountain of commitments. Is it not rather the case that the Commission's services are unable to manage it all?
Ces dernières années, les autorités budgétaires ont imposé à la Commission une foule d'engagements. La véritable cause n'est-elle pas plutôt le fait que les services de la Commission ne sont pas capables de bien les gérer ?
Would that not be due to the fact that the Commission services are unable to properly manage all commitments with which the budgetary authority has saddled the Commission over the past couple of years?
Ne se trouverait-elle pas dans le fait que les services de la Commission ne sont pas capables de gérer convenablement la totalité des engagements qui ont été imposés à la Commission par l' autorité budgétaire ces dernières années ?
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