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“eût mieux valu” in English

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Je crois qu'il eût mieux valu que le document aborde aussi cet aspect des choses.
I therefore think it would have been beneficial for the document to have addressed this aspect as well.
Madame la Présidente, à défaut d'avoir pu parler ce matin, comme je l'avais demandé, ce qui eût mieux valu, je prends la parole maintenant.
Madam President, I did ask to speak this morning when my intervention would have been more appropriate. However, as this was not possible, I will speak now.
Je voudrais dire également qu'il eût mieux valu que la directive donne satisfaction aujourd'hui aux auteurs et soit révisée dans dix-huit mois.
I also wish to say that it would be much better if the directive were to give this satisfaction to authors now and were then to be reviewed within eighteen months.
Une pratique médicale vitale pour certains patients, qu'à mon sens il eût mieux valu faire bénéficier d'une dérogation, plutôt que de reporter de 4 ans l'ensemble de la directive!
MRI scanning is an essential medical procedure for certain patients, and in my view it should have been made the subject of a derogation, instead of postponing application of the entire directive for four years!
Evidemment, il eût mieux valu que cela concerne toute la compensation, mais nous nous trouvons confrontés à un sujet délicat qui interfère avec la sphère de la souveraineté de chacun de ces pays.
Obviously, it would be nice if the principle were applied to the whole of the compensation, but we are in a delicate area where there is a danger of interfering with the sovereignty of each of the countries in question.
En ce qui concerne le troisième objectif, qui vise à améliorer le fonctionnement des institutions dans la perspective de l'élargissement, l'échec est à ce point cuisant qu'il eût mieux valu proposer la fin de la Conférence.
In the third objective - improving the operation of the institutions with a view to enlargement - the failure was on such a scale that it would have been better to postpone the end of the conference.
Je pense, et j'ai voté en ce sens hier, qu'il eut mieux valu reporter la résolution en attendant de disposer du rapport de la commission, de façon à nous prononcer en meilleure connaissance de cause et avec plus de sérénité.
I believe, and I voted accordingly yesterday, that it would have been better to delay the resolution until we had the Commission's report, so that we could debate the matter in full knowledge of all the facts and more calmly.

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