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	Diese Idee können sich die Konservativen an ihre Fahnen heften.	The Conservatives can lay claim to this idea.
	Offenbar muss man ein sehr gutes Gewissen haben, um die politischen Dinge so schlicht und ungeschlacht zu sehen und darzustellen - ein "Privileg", das freilich nicht nur politisierende Literaten, sondern auch die Politiker selber nur zu oft in Anspruch nehmen. [G]	Evidently, one has to have a very good conscience in order to see and represent political things so simply and coarsely - a "privilege" to which of course not only politicising writers but also politicians themselves only too often lay claim.
	Nur Weine luxemburgischen Ursprungs, die nicht mit ausländischem Wein verschnitten worden sind und den nationalen und europäischen Vorschriften entsprechen, haben Anspruch auf diese Bezeichnung. [EU]	It is issued by the office of the Marque nationale. Only wines of Luxembourg origin that have not been blended with foreign wine and which comply with the national and European requirements can lay claim to this designation.
The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute. Sentences marked by [EU] derived from DGT Multilingual Translation Memory. The European Commission retains ownership of the copyright in the original data.