Übersetzung für "Let-off " (Englisch → Deutsch) :

We are nonetheless aware that there are companies that have unscrupulously taken advantage of European consumers and that European consumers have suffered in dealing with badly-managed companies let off the hook as a result of inadequate regulation in this area.

2. Believes that the international financial crisis, which has its epicentre in the US financial system and was triggered off by property speculation, is an expression of the growing crisis of a financial speculation that has little to with the real economy, as well as of the devaluation of workers' wages and the purchasing power of the poorest, together with forced recourse to bank loans both for buying property and for consumption; finds it unacceptable that the workers and the least-favoured strata should have to pay the costs of the present financial crisis, once again letting off the hook those who are in reality responsible for, and benefit from, speculative policies and the financing of the economy, in other words big business and f ...[+++]inance;

Last year at least four countries carried out nuclear weapons tests, but according to the rapporteur it is only North Korea and Iran that are dangerous, while the others are let off the hook.

Despite the good intentions in Geneva, there is of course a great deal of horse trading, with the really big rogue states, such as Iran and China, often being let off the hook, whereas it is easier to agree on North Korea, for example; which is also a rogue State, of course.

Parking to let passengers on or off the bus safely (categories D, DE, D1, D1E only).

In late 2000, China's Academy of Social Sciences drew attention to the 'new contradictions and problems' in Chinese society, stating 'If there are no channels for letting off steam, the repressed discontent of individuals could well up into large-scale social instability'.