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“piètres excuses” in English

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Il est remarquable que le public puisse avoir accès à cette information car dans le passé, de piètres excuses étaient fournies pour refuser de les dévoiler.
It is great that the public will actually have access to this information because lame excuses were used in the past for refusing it.
Il s'agit d'approfondir nos relations en matière réglementaire de sorte à améliorer l'ouverture et l'efficacité de nos résultats industriels, en renonçant aux piètres excuses du passé.
It is about a deepening of our relationship at the regulatory level which improves the openness and efficiency of our industrial performances and which does away with the weak excuses of the past.
Nous aurions pu fournir mille explications à ces citoyens, mais toutes auraient résonné comme de piètres excuses et donné lieu à une chasse aux sorcières, empêchant ainsi la résolution pratique du problème.
We could have given these citizens a thousand explanations but all would have sounded like feeble excuses and would have invited a search for the guilty parties, thereby preventing the practical solution of the problem.

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