Translation of "Grabenkrieg" in English

It's trench warfare out there, pal.

There's a real tug of war going on between the different factions of the Nazi military.

This would be a big help for them in trench warfare.

So the cold war of Antratsyt gangs continues.

In your installation Head On, a pack of wolves is attacking the wall like in a trench war.

The allies suffer heavy fights with house-to-house fighting and trench warfare.

However, that doesn't work because the most dangerous place in trench warfare is in the middle.

Although the new Director, Mr Brüner, has been in his post for over a year now, he has so far not been able to put together a new management team for OLAF, and this is chiefly because the Commission has involved him in an administrative trench war over the procedures for recruiting the new management.

So when the First World War broke out, the result was the trench warfare that lasted longer than anybody had expected.

How can we talk about free movement in a single market if we are still engaged in trench warfare over the European company statute, for example?

So, given these obstacles, it would seem that we are in for a war of attrition.

There is a need to better combine and integrate social policy with economic policy. These discussions should be orchestrated within the framework of the White Paper on growth, competitiveness and employment.

Underlying this presentation, these proposals, there is a contradiction which is already becoming apparent through the interminable discussions on the budget for the financial year 1987.

Since then, the proposal has caused much ink to be shed throughout the world and Mr Richard has spoken of the 'trench warfare' in this area.

Everything internal is ripe or ripening, but there is a sort of locked struggle in which neither side can make a very appreciable advance (somewhat like the trench warfare in Europe), the spiritual force insisting against the resistance of the physical world, that resistance disputing every inch and making more or less effective counter-attacks....

The 75 mm cannon was very effective during manoeuvre warfare (especially during the Battles of the Marne), but was less well suited to trench warfare, where its firepower was beaten by heavy artillery.

The situation on the ground is not quite trench warfare, but the unending conflict over narrow strips of land which pass from one side to another at enormous cost in terms of lives and physical damage is reminiscent of the battles of the first world war.

Martin: In this case, we wanted to make our first two multiplayer maps set during the night, we wanted them to feature the French and German armies, and we wanted to focus more on trench warfare, with one of the maps having a twist of being more urban.

What followed was an almost four-years lasting legal trench-warfare, during which the Canadian authorities applied methods which can only be compared with the methods used during the infamous Stalinist show trials.

In this way the Zündel Team would engage in judicial positional warfare, digging down into the subject matter in a kind of judicial trench warfare-much like many battles were fought in the First and often in the Second World War on the battlefields of Europe!

To the rest of the world, the objectives of the 1998 plan for a more drug free world in 2008 looked much the same as the military orders of the generals in the first world war (1914 - 1918): for years they insisted in continuing a trench warfare that every soldier who had been two days in the field knew was completely useless.

With his battles, the battle of Badr (624), Uhud (625) and the battle of the trench (627) Mohammed simply followed the basic logic of questioning the power of the tribe governing Mecca, the Quraysh, and the attack on this tribe who were protectors of the pagan faith and its structures.

But it would also allow him to turn the 2020 campaign into a trench war and blame the Democrats for the end of the economic boom....

Amr ibn Abd Wudd, who had fought at Badr until his wounds had made him unable to continue battle, who had not been present at Uhud, yet who now distinguished himself at the Battle of the Ditch -- that it might be plain to see which position he occupied -- remained standing and challenged the believers to begin duels.

It is, of course, a step in the right direction that this should under Mr Barroso's presidency, be brought within the Commission's remit, but, since there is no transparency within the Commission, I fear that we will be waging a bureaucratic trench war between the office that falls within Mr Barroso remit and the Commission offices that are required to draw up the impact assessment.