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24. En respuesta a una sugerencia del Sr. SIMMA, el PRESIDENTE dice que la solución más sencilla sería que el Comité citase el párrafo 12 del informe revisado y luego, remitiendo al acta resumida correspondiente, dijera que ha debatido la cuestión y decidido en contra de que se incluya esa disposición.
24. In response to a suggestion by Mr. SIMMA, the CHAIRPERSON said that the simplest solution would be for the Committee to quote paragraph 12 of the revised report and then, indicating the relevant summary records, state that it had discussed the issue and had decided against the inclusion of such a provision.
64. El informe remite a algunas disposiciones jurídicas y a diversas salvaguardias en ellas previstas, pero sería útil que la delegación citase casos concretos que mostraran hasta qué punto el sistema judicial vela por su cumplimiento.
The report had described a number of legal provisions and various safeguards granted by such provisions, but he believed it would be useful for the delegation to quote specific cases that showed the scope of enforcement by the judicial system.
Es una pena, no obstante, que no citase usted sus sonetos.
Pity, though, you didn’t quote his sonnets.”
«Jenny murió el otro día» -añadió, como si citase un texto.
'"Jenny died the other day,'" she added, as if quoting.
Sería terrible que ella también citase «Dover Beach»: Tom pensará que todas las mujeres son iguales.
How awful if she too is quoting Dover Beach—Tom will think all women are alike.
A Clarence no le dije que fuera de Valéry, sin embargo, porque le molestaba que citase a escritores franceses.
I didn’t tell Clarence that Valéry had said it, though, because it annoyed him when I quoted French authors.
En las metrópolis estadounidenses, más allá de su grado de honestidad, los ciudadanos invocaban las reglas como quien citase la Biblia.
Regardless of how honest they were, the residents of the great U.S. cities cited their laws as if quoting the Bible.
Después de recibir tantas postales suyas desde Yugoslavia, me había acostumbrado a que me citase cosas de lo que estaba leyendo.
Having received his many postcards from Yugoslavia, I was used to his quoting from things he was reading.
«Amados como los besos recordados tras la muerte», tecleó con indolencia, pero ¿era verosímil que su héroe hubiese leído a Tennyson o citase el verso así, en voz alta?
Dear as remembered kisses after death, she typed idly, but was it likely that her hero would have read Tennyson or quoted the line aloud like that?
le consolaría o le alarmaría que yo le citase a Jules Renard (Diario, 26 de enero de 1906): «De buen grado creo cualquier cosa que propongas, pero la justicia de este mundo no me tranquiliza mucho sobre la justicia del siguiente.
would be consoled, or alarmed, if I were to quote him Jules Renard (Journal, 26 January 1906): “I’m happy to believe anything you suggest, but the justice of this world doesn’t exactly reassure me about the justice of the next.
«A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs»… ¿Sabría ella lo que estaba insinuando si citase aquella frase, o lo consideraría estúpido y afectado en aquel recibidor oscuro de la periferia, con los impermeables y los zapatos viejos apiñados en aquel perchero particularmente antiestético?
A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs … would she know what he was driving at if he were to quote that, or would it seem stupid and affected in the dark suburban hall, with the macintoshes and old shoes huddled together in the peculiarly unaesthetic hat stand?
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