a piu forte ragione

English translation: all the more / all the more so / with greater reason

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Italian term or phrase:	a piu forte ragione
English translation:	all the more / all the more so / with greater reason
Entered by:	RProsser

19:41 Jul 23, 2010

Italian to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law: Taxation & Customs

Italian term or phrase: a piu forte ragione

Viene chiarito, in proposito, che nel caso ******* nel quale era stato affermato che il vantaggio fiscale costituiva l'unico scopo dell'operazione, era stata superata la soglia minima, e che quindi l'abuso ricorreva a più forte ragione;

This is taken from an ECJ judgement.

RProsser KudoZ activity Questions: 188 (6 open) (1 without valid answers) (8 closed without grading) Answers: 10
Local time: 04:28

all the more / all the more so / with greater reason

Explanation:
Sinonimi di "a maggior ragione"

Selected response from:

Daniel Piloni
France
Local time: 05:28

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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

all the more / all the more so / with greater reason

Daniel Piloni

4 +1

So much the more/All the more reason

Gad Kohenov

even more

cynthiatesser

3 +1

a fortiori

polyglot45

more than ever

darwilliam

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

all the more / all the more so / with greater reason

Explanation:
Sinonimi di "a maggior ragione"

Daniel Piloni
France
Local time: 05:28
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Italian,

French
PRO pts in category: 4

4 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

So much the more/All the more reason

Explanation:
à plus forte raison is the French copy of this Italian expression.

Gad Kohenov
Israel
Local time: 06:28
Native speaker of:

French,

Hebrew
PRO pts in category: 12

11 hrs confidence:

even more

Explanation:
youi can turn the sentence around like this:

the abuse applied even more

the abuse was even more motivated/justified

the abuse was even more valid/sound

cynthiatesser
Italy
Local time: 05:28
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 12

14 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

a fortiori

Explanation:
Web definitions for fortiori
with greater reason; for a still stronger, more certain reason; "if you are wrong then, a fortiori, so am I"
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

you could, of course, use the (original) Latin

polyglot45
Native speaker of:

English,

French

41 mins confidence:

more than ever

Explanation:
more than ever, all the more, all the more so, from the stronger, still more.

With (even) more reason.

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Note added at 18 hrs (2010-07-24 13:49:14 GMT)
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even more so

darwilliam
China
Local time: 11:28
Native speaker of:

English,

Italian

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