English-French translations for at first sight

• au premier abord
  Au premier abord, l’offre d’ouverture du marché américain est en effet ambitieuse. At first sight, the US market access offer is indeed ambitious.
  Au premier abord, l'eau qui sépare l'Europe de l'Afrique n'a pas l'air si profonde. At first sight the water between Europe and Africa does not look all that deep.
  Monsieur le Commissaire, chers collègues, ce rapport a beaucoup plus d' impact qu' on pourrait le penser au premier abord. Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this report has far more impact than would appear at first sight.
• au premier coup d’œil
• de prime abord
  Les textes sont plus complexes qu’il n’y paraît de prime abord. The texts are more complex than they appear at first sight.
  La proposition d'intégration peut paraître complexe de prime abord. The proposal for integration might seem complex at first sight.
  - Monsieur le Président, de prime abord, les questions abordées dans ces trois rapports semblent être de nature technique. – Mr President, the issues addressed by these three reports appear at first sight to be of a technical nature.

Definition of at first sight

• Superficially, without a full inspection

Examples

• It looks like a normal car at first sight. But when we open the hood, we discover something quite new.

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