Finnish-English translations for sahata

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With these projects the EU is very much in danger of sawing off the branch it is sitting on and risking its competitiveness and prosperity. Näissä hankkeissa EU uhkaa sahata omaa oksaansa pahemman kerran ja asettaa kilpailukykynsä ja hyvinvointinsa vaakalaudalle. Of course, I am only an enemy of the fishing industry as much as anybody who recommends to some people not to saw off the branch on which they are sitting. Tietenkin olen kalatalousalan vihollinen siinä mielessä, että suositukseni on, ettei sitä oksaa pitäisi sahata poikki, jolla istutaan. They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

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