Übersetzung für "Auf die finger klopfen" in Englisch

So I now urge everyone to rap the committee's knuckles.

What a way to act!

He wants to keep an eye on me.

Cutter and Ritter will take some, too, but it won't amount to much, a slap on the wrist.

Lets them off with barely a slap on the wrist.

The FCC can't do anything except rap our knuckles.

What, you going to rap my knuckles if I'm bad? It's unlikely.

Although the competence lies with the Member States, I hope that the Commission can and will rap the fingers of those countries which are disregarding the rules.

Lastly, and we attach great importance to this, it can take the Member States to task when it comes to transposing the European standards into national standards if they record a poor performance on the internal market scoreboard.

The European Parliament's role is nothing less than to exercise scrutiny of the Commission and it can rap the Commission over the knuckles, as we are doing now, if it fails to discharge its responsibilities.

I find that in conflict with the fact that every month in this Parliament we rap third countries over the knuckles for violation of human rights.

Globalisation will continue to have us by the throat for as long as we, by means of our support programmes, send far too much money up in smoke, make it inevitable that jobs will go elsewhere, fail to apply proper sanctions to those who refuse to play by the rules and turn a blind eye to its real causes.

Where the previous award of the seal of approval is concerned, the Commission, unlike the Court of Auditors, believes simultaneous visa control to be an essential part of financial control.

Lasdy, and we attach great importance to this, it can take the Member States to task when it comes to transposing the European standards into national standards if they record a poor performance on the internal market scoreboard.

Clearly intended to give the climate researchers a good rap on their grubby knuckles, the article itself positively oozes with errors (see below).

This is like inventing a hammer that would make it impossible to hit your thumb.

Since I have my other guys but ordenlich rap on the knuckles, when I imagine them Babydoll.

No problem for a Chinese who trusts the people's dictatorship: "If such a monopolist makes nonsense, such as introducing high transfer fees, then the government will be on our side and knock him hard on the fingers."

It remains to be seen whether the new ruling coalition can do a better job of scrutinising the commission and representing Europe's voters....

Why, in the middle of his attempt to ridicule the accomplishments of revisionism, does he assert that there are not enough skeptics hammering the fingers of the "Holocaust Industry?"

He can now monitor the new processes and quickly react to all changes in the workflow: inspect newly delivered kitchen utensils or give the food taster a slap on the wrist if he catches him smoking.

Even if Microsoft on occasion may have engaged in some sharp competitive practices, the EU’s competition authorities have not been content with slapping its wrists, but got involved in deeply intrusive remedies, including the unbundling of a media player from Microsoft’s operating system and mandating disclosure of industrial secrets embodied in Microsoft’s server software.