relativise

Many ruses are being used to relativise communism's past.
Toutes sortes de subterfuges sont utilisés en vue de relativiser le passé du communisme.
'Aid for Trade' must not be allowed to relativise the fight against poverty, and so it follows that additional funds are needed in order to finance it.
L'aide au commerce ne doit pas relativiser la lutte contre la pauvreté et son financement nécessite donc des fonds supplémentaires.
These are all elements which, naturally, occur to everyone sooner or later, but it would be extremely bad if these were to exclude or relativise the agreed criteria.
Ce sont tous des éléments qui viennent, tôt ou tard, à l’esprit de chacun, mais il serait extrêmement regrettable que ces derniers excluent ou relativisent les critères adoptés.
We must dress the wounds suffered by European industry, amounting to millions of euros (though the movement of the euro may relativise such a figure).
Il faut panser les plaies, qui se chiffrent en millions d' euros pour nos industries, bien que l' évolution de cette devise en relativise l' importance.
Subsequently, you tabled amendments, which is entirely legitimate; it is just that we cannot accept the way they are worded because they seem to relativise the question.
Vous avez ensuite déposé des propositions d'amendement, ce qui est légitime, si ce n'est que leur formulation n'est pas acceptable pour nous, du fait qu'elles relativisent les choses.
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