Translation of "It is past time" in German

It is past high time for current patients’ rights and minimum standards to be brought into line across the EU.

It is long past time for a complete change of personnel at all levels of the Bush administration.

It is past time for our elected governments to change the rules of the game.

It is past time to plan.

And it is past time you were wed.

It is past time to take globalization's complexities seriously.

It is past time to move on from the big performances.

It is past time for Europe’s leaders to grasp the reality of the situation.

Phil, it is way past go time.

The Beast is of our own creation, and it is long past time we sent it away.

It is past time that we on the international left got a few simple things clear.

It is long past time that we tried to find European solutions here - perhaps using the instrument of port state control, since it has proved impossible to prevent outflagging and second registration - and ensure that shipboard workers, too, once again have working and communication conditions which respect the rights of the workforce and promote safety at sea!

Commissioner, it is time, long past time, that you brought in straight, clear labelling of origin of where this comes from.

How does this resolution get serious – because it is well past time that this House did get serious?

We all agree on the need for a deeper EU, something that we have been promised ever since Maastricht, when there were twelve Member States as against the present twenty-seven, so it is now past high time that we got it.

It is past time to make those sentiments a reality; more than a pledge to resolve disputes peacefully is needed.

It is past time to consider how it is performing, and whether it has lived up to the expectations that accompanied its birth.

It is past time for the international community – including the international financial institutions, the EU, the United States, Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) – to raise the resources needed to give these countries sufficient fiscal space to meet their people’s immediate needs.

In both cases, I saw things that convinced me that it is past time for someone to come to globalization’s defense.

So it is past time that the European Union stopped treating energy as a bilateral issue, with some of the larger member states trying to protect their own narrow interests at the expense of the common European good.

The retirees enjoying a second youth may not want to hear it, but it is past time that governments made public pensions partly conditional on community work.

So, regardless of what European leaders decide at their latest summit, it is past time for the international community to act in support of the world’s refugees and others who have been forcibly displaced.

It is past time for the US to wake up and confront in a holistic fashion its unemployment crisis.

It is past time for political leaders to show more courage in implementing structural and social-security reforms that may impede growth for a time, but will stabilize their countries’ fiscal position.

It is past time for the West to accept the Arab people’s will and to stop exaggerating the repercussions of change.

But it is past time that some basic principles in the theory of knowledge and of philosophy of science be introduced into schools of business administration.

It is past time for these modest changes, because the Asia/Pacific region's many fault lines affect the interests of the world's great and emerging powers in fundamental ways.