wait-and-see policy

The decline of our coastal zones is often a result of this reprehensible wait-and-see policy.
La dégradation de nos zones côtières résulte souvent de ce coupable attentisme.
The wait-and-see policy, the standstills and the prevarications are therefore truly disastrous for the future of the Mediterranean.
L’attentisme, les blocages, les faux-fuyants sont par conséquent vraiment désastreux pour l’avenir de la Méditerranée.
The wait-and-see policy adopted in response to the mutinies was pursued until 1999, because we had two major events: the legislative elections in 1998 and the presidential elections in 1999.
L'attentisme observé avec les mutineries s'est poursuivi jusqu'à la mi-1999 car nous avions des échéances majeures, c'est-à-dire les élections législatives de 1998 et la présidentielle de 1999.
There is no room for half-measures and a wait-and-see policy.
Les demi-mesures et les politiques attentistes sont inacceptables.
But the risks to the inflation outlook currently appear to be quite balanced, suggesting that there is scope for continuing the wait-and-see policy until the recovery is better established.
Mais ces risques semblant pour le moment équilibrés, la Banque pourrait rester dans une prudente expectative en attendant que la reprise soit solidement installée.
Because, while the Council adopts a wait-and-see policy to review how the new government performs, each day it waits it puts the very outcome it wants to see in ever greater jeopardy.
Car, pendant que le Conseil fait preuve d'attentisme, dans l'attente des résultats du nouveau gouvernement, chaque jour qui passe compromet encore plus les résultats qu'il espère.
Not wishing to add my voice to that of the supporters of a wait-and-see policy, I have nonetheless voted in favour of this resolution which, moreover, has been improved along the way by an amendment by Mr Souchet.
Ne souhaitant pas mêler ma voix à celle des attentistes, j’ai néanmoins voté pour cette résolution, d’ailleurs améliorée au passage par un amendement de Dominique Souchet.
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