| When we think about this in the context of oil sands development, it appears very much that we put the cart before the horse. |
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| Nevertheless, we cannot put the cart before the horse if we want this work to succeed. |
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| First we must wait and see if there is enough money for the necessary changes and not put the cart before the horse. |
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| I am concerned that the hon. member, in an attempt to do the right thing, has put the cart before the horse. |
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| There is an old expression that says that one should never put the cart before the horse. |
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| Once again, the Commission has put the cart before the horse without waiting for the European Parliament's point of view. |
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| I refuse to put the cart before the horse by making proposals first and only then taking advice. |
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| One must therefore be careful not to put the cart before the horse in deciding what needs to be changed in any given instance. |
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| To do so is, as far as I am concerned, to put the cart before the horse. |
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| To vote on liberalisation at this stage, without putting arrangements in place in this area first, is to put the cart before the horse, and this will not work. |
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| To attempt to remove the armaments before removing these substantive conflicts of interest is to put the cart before the horse. |
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| So they put the cart before the horse and told us that we needed to solve out political, cultural and socio-economic problems before we could accede to Europe and not vice-versa. |
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