04:36 Dec 5, 2001 |
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5 +1 | encirclement |
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4 | defensive line |
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5 -1 | police dragnet / police roundup / police containment |
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4 | Police Encirclement |
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4 | police blockade |
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4 | polizeikessel |
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4 | police cauldron |
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1 | (police) containment |
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defensive line Explanation: would be the translation, but maybe you could use surround? The police surrounded demonstrators. HTH :-)) Babylon |
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police dragnet / police roundup / police containment Explanation: This is a term used in the USA for police actions in which certain areas are blocked off and combed through, on the search for criminals etc. 790 Google hits: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Google Search... "roundup" is translated back as "Verhaftung" by Oxford Duden, but it also includes the sense of the cattle roundup, i.e. surrounding, gathering, collecting, containment. "police roundup" = 1780 Google hits: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q= "police rou... "police containment" = 126 Google hits: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q= "police con... HTH |
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encirclement Explanation: It is either encirclement or "surround" as in the answer above. Polizeikessel means that the police are deliberately encircling demonstrators and keep them surrounded. It is different from a dragnet ( a police search), roundup ( the police do not arrest anyone necessarily), and a cordon (that is just a blocking line). been in one in the US in my wild and wooly days |
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Police Encirclement Explanation: Encirclement actually would be "Einkreisung", but should hit the point. The Term "Polizeikessel" comes from a Wehrmachts Strategy during WWII, called "Kesselschlacht", where the opposing soldiers were lured into a dent inside the German front line, which then was closed up behind them, so they were sitting in a kind of a "cauldron/Kessel". The Soviet army later used the same strategy, a good example is the battle of Stalingrad. |
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(police) containment Explanation: Sorry, one word is a little weak in English. Could you accept two? The only term that could be used alone is "containment", but it would also sound better to me as "police containment". The terms "police" plus the verb "encircled" (+200 Google hits) or the noun "encirclement" (+30 Google hits) or the noun "containment" (+120 Google hits) or the verb "contained" (+200 Google hits) are all quite widely used. If you look at the text of some of the hits at: http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q=" +police +encirclement... or http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q=" +police +encircled"&b... or http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q=" +police +containment"... or http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q=" +police +contained"&b... you will probably find the meaning corresponds very well to your German text. HTH Dan |
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police blockade Explanation: another possibility, according to my American husband |
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polizeikessel Explanation: I would call this a police line (American term). News media |
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police cauldron Explanation: a very literal translation which describes the situation precisely. brings only 2 google-hits, unfortunately, one from UK, one from (you guessed it) Australia. HTH |
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