Translation of "debíamos" to English language:
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| Y me decía que debíamos intentar erradicarlos. | And he was telling me that really, we ought to try and eradicate these things. |
| Mi padre insistió en que debíamos ir. | My father insisted that we should go. |
| Debíamos haber despegado a las 4 30 p.m. | We were to have taken off at 4 30 p.m. |
| Discutimos acerca de si debíamos cancelar la reserva. | We deliberated whether we should cancel the reservation. |
| Sugerí que debíamos quedarnos allí otro día más. | I suggested that we should stay there another day. |
| Asumí que había algo más que debíamos hacer. | I assumed there must be something else we had to do. |
| Dijo que no debíamos bajar del avión de ninguna manera. | They said no coming off this plane at alllllllll |
| Para modificarlo, debíamos con sultar a la Comisión de Reglamento. | People can decide this issue for themselves by reading the records of what Mr Killilea and I myself said yesterday. |
| Dado este problema para la economía pensé que debíamos encontrar una solución. | So having seen this danger to the economy, I thought, we need to find a solution to this problem. |
| y nosotros debíamos ir y hablar con ellos, usualmente por una semana. | And we would come in and talk to them, usually for about a week. |
| Decidimos que no debíamos poner un No entrar al lado de los respiraderos. | We decided that I can't put a do not enter sign next to the vent. |
| Después de eso Nany sugirió que debíamos volver a hacer gotong royong (servicio comunitario). | After that Nany suggested we should revive again the gotong royong (community work). |
| El alcalde Bloomberg subió y nos brindó mucho apoyo pero aún debíamos demostrar el beneficio económico. | Mayor Bloomberg came in office, he was very supportive, but we still had to make the economic case. |
| Por qué? Porque eran ancianas y estaban enfermas. Y debíamos ir a verlas por si necesitaban algo. | Why? Because they were old and infirm, and we needed to go by to see if they needed anything. |
| Muchos de ustedes recordarán los comienzos de la oceanografía cuando debíamos utilizar lo que había a nuestro alcance. | And many of you remember the early stages of oceanography, when we had to use what we had at our fingertips. |
| Por desgracia, en ese momento no sabíamos que ese no era exactamente el lugar donde debíamos buscar, debíamos profundizar más, y por eso se detuvo la investigación y se retomó recién en el 2000, gracias al interés y al entusiasmo de la familia Guinness. | Unfortunately, at that time we did not know that that was not exactly where we should be looking, because we had to go much deeper in, and so the research came to a halt, and it was only taken up in 2000 thanks to the interest and the enthusiasm of the Guinness family. |
| Antes, para enviar los especímenes, debíamos tener hielo seco. Íbamos a las cervecerías a rogar, pedir o robar para obtenerlo. | Early on, in order to ship our specimens, we had to have dry ice. To get dry ice we had to go to the breweries beg, borrow, steal to get these folks to give it to us. |
| LANE (RDE). (EN) Señor Presidente, soy miembro de la Delegación para el Golfo, adonde debíamos dirigirnos el jueves de la semana próxima. | who are at present in the desert between Iraq and Jordan and questions about what, if anything, the European Community is going to do about those refugees and about getting them out of the desert and back to the Member States. |
| Así también vosotros, cuando hayáis hecho todo lo que se os ha mandado, decid Siervos inútiles somos porque sólo hicimos lo que debíamos hacer. | Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.' |
| Así también vosotros, cuando hayáis hecho todo lo que se os ha mandado, decid Siervos inútiles somos porque sólo hicimos lo que debíamos hacer. | So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to do. |
| Si ésas son en verdad las primeras señales de la segunda era de las máquinas, es posible que hayamos estado riñendo una batalla que no debíamos. | If these are indeed the first signs of the second machine age, it is possible that we have been fighting the wrong battle. |
| Expresamos nuestra perplejidad en el momento en que debíamos hacerlo y lo hicimos en el momento en que queríamos y podíamos devolver ese informe a comisión. | I think that had the rapporteur had all the necessary information and had we had that information at the same time, we should have been able to hold a better debate and this is true also because the Committee on Energy, Research and Technology is a committee in which there is a great deal of discussion and debate and nothing is taken for granted. |
| Yo no había escuchado acerca de las 10 maneras que debíamos preocuparnos de Por lo demás, yo podría haber pensado, Mejor no hago esto porque decían no lo haga, ustedes saben. | I hadn't heard about the 10 ways that we should be afraid of the By the way, I could have thought, I'd better not do this because they say not to, you know. |
| Respecto a la ayuda humanitaria a los territorios ocupados, le planteo la pregunta acaso debíamos interrumpirla, no proseguirla, porque Irak había invadido Kuwait? Es la única pregunta que podemos plantear nos. | We will give it our approval because Parliament must map out the line to be followed in the further development of the Community and the line that must be followed at the two intergovernmental conferences, because we know that the development of the Community will not, of course, come to an end with the intergovernmental conferences, but that it will continue. |
| Sí. Así que lo primero que debíamos hacer era encontrar una manera de llegar a esto teníamos que trabajar con las familias de las víctimas, a través de la Ciudad, para asegurarnos que ellos sabían que esto estaba ocurriendo. | DR Yeah. So the first thing we had to do was find a way to get this we had to work with the families of the victims, through the city, to make sure that they knew this was happening. |
| Debíamos sacar conclusiones serias de nuestro informe, que fueran creíbles a los ojos de la Comisión y del Consejo, a los ojos, igualmente, de nuestros colegas y de la Mesa, para que se lanzara, por fin, una verdadera política comunitaria en este ámbito. | These recommendations, which are very diverse where they concern the Council and the Member States, call for direct recognition and careful, indepth examination of the entire subject. |
| En los años 50 y 60, cuando estaba creciendo, se suponía que las niñas eran amables y consideradas y bonitas y gentiles y suaves. Y se suponía que encajábamos en roles que eran poco claros. Realmente no estaba claro qué se suponía que debíamos ser. | Back in the '50s and '60s, when I was growing up, little girls were supposed to be kind and thoughtful and pretty and gentle and soft, and we were supposed to fit into roles that were sort of shadowy really not quite clear what we were supposed to be. |
| Conozco los desafíos financieros en todos los niveles en la TV local donde trabajé en 2011 y 2012 (por falta de recursos debíamos cumplir largas jornadas de trabajo) y en el mayor medio de comunicación en donde trabajé (escuché muchas veces esta frase nos interesa el tema, pero no tenemos presupuesto ). | I knew of the financial challenges at all levels at the local TV where I worked in 2011 2012 (because of lack of resources, we had to do long working days) and at the major media outlet for whom I worked (I heard the following sentence several times We are interested in your topic, but we do not have the budget to provide support for it ). |
| Nemtsov siempre fue muy respetuoso con respecto al Islam, y cuando algunos expresamos algunos de sus colegas que trabajaron en las mismas organizaciones de oposición con él una actitud diferente, él siempre nos llevaba a un lado, diciendo que debíamos ser tolerantes, y mencionando que algunos de sus parientes cercanos eran musulmanes (podemos entrar en detalles). | Nemtsov was always very respectful about Islam, and when we some of his colleagues who worked in the same opposition organizations with him expressed a different attitude, he always pulled us aside, saying that we should be tolerant, and mentioning that some of his close relatives are Muslims (we can go on without details). |
| Pero el punto es que la amarga experiencia del Artículo 34, ese complot para corromper el Parlamento, esa amarga experiencia que ocurrió en agosto, cuando se suponía que debíamos haber estado celebrando nuestra independencia, pasando a septiembre, me obligó a comprobar y recalcular mis soportes, y volver a algunos de los trabajos, algunas de las cosas que había escrito y algunos de los intercambios que había hecho con los funcionarios para ver qué era realmente qué. | But the point is that the bitter experience of Section 34, that plot to pervert Parliament, that bitter experience that took place in August, when we were supposed to be celebrating our independence, going into September, forced me to check myself and recalculate my bearings, and to go back into some of the work, some of the stuff I'd written and some of the exchanges I'd had with the officials to see what was really what. |
