English-Swedish translations for under the microscope

• under luppen
  EU måste äntligen lämna denna utveckling bakom sig och sätta de senaste årens felaktiga åtgärder under luppen.Europe must finally leave this trend behind it and put the wrong moves of recent years under the microscope.
  I det förra fallet lade man mindre kränkningar av de mänskliga rättigheterna under luppen medan man i det andra fallet teg, förnekade eller berättigade stora kränkningar så mycket som möjligt.In the former case, minor human rights violations used to be put under the microscope while in the latter, major violations were hushed up, denied or glossed over as much as possible.

Definition of under the microscope

• Under close scrutiny or examination

Examples

• After his productivity flagged, his boss put him under the microscope to try to isolate and correct the problem.

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