Translation of "Schuss vor den bug" in English

Apparently a shot across the bow is insufficiently convincing.

No, I read the bomb as a shot across the bow.

I'm talking about a shot across the bow.

The Heinz deal has been another recent shot across the bows of the bond market.

While this Parliament has, for the first time, a say on such matters, the Arif report has fired a warning shot across the bows of the Council and the Commission as they prepare to open negotiations with India, Canada and, soon, with China.

Mr President, I welcome this report as a shot across the bows of supermarket giants.

That is the message that we have sent out with a massive majority of the House today, and it is a hefty shot across the bows of those governments which are blocking progress here.

Russia’s hasty decision to recognize the “independence” of South Ossetia and Abkhazia was a shot across the bow for every former Soviet country, and has intensified speculation about who might be “next” – and how to prevent Russia from multiplying the supposed Kosovo “precedent” in other ex-Soviet countries.

Big tobacco got a spanking. Slap on the wrist. And they went right back to business as usual.

So an app that takes a couple of days to write and then spreads virally, that's sort of a shot across the bow to the institution of government.

Sicking Lee on the quorum is only gonna be seen as a shot across the bow.

He contacted air traffic control and told them this was a demonstration; a shot across the bow,so to speak.

This discrimination of former workers and their different culture follows a clear political objective, since it can be interpreted as "a shot across the bow" of the native-born employees, who are thus kept silent by scare mongering and discouraged from raising their justified demands.

This discrimination of former workers and their different culture follows a clear political objective, since it can be interpreted as “a shot across the bow” of the native-born employees, who are thus kept silent by scare mongering and discouraged from raising their justified demands.

It is a shot across the bows of the ruling elites in Brussels and Berlin, a sign of resistance against the neo-liberal impoverishment policies.

He wanted to give the Chinese - who are swinging their military and economic weight in the Pacific Region - a shot across the bow.

My first show and its catalogue was a kind of first shot across the bows of painterly convention, as befits as young radical artist.

However, the Evans report is too diplomatic to give a decisive halt to the restrictive German asylum policy.

Mr President, I too am glad that we are having this debate today; let it be an unmistakeable shot across the bows of the President and of the Conference of Presidents, for without it, a dangerous precedent would have been set.

"It showed us that we have to be ready," said coach Urs Fischer. "We did not do so to the extent we had imagined today. Maybe it was a shot in the arm at the right time."

I hope this shot across the bows may help to ensure a better start for implementation of the Meda programme and that we shall avoid problems like this in future.

But apparently there are problems with the pelagic species, and the Commission should get together with the producers and the large marketing organizations to decide on how to organize a sensible market for these products — a perfectly feasible exercise nowadays — so that the fishermen can make sensible use of the available resources of pelagic species.

I would like to thank Parliament again for the wideranging and constructive support it has given to the Commission in implementing competition policy and, for my part, promise that the suggestions concerning competition policy in the narrower sense will be real ized as far as possible; as regards the suggestions concerning areas for which my colleagues are primarily responsible, I will naturally inform my colleagues of Parliament's wishes.

But I should also like to make the point, in case there is some misunderstanding, that I think the shot across the bows of the Commission today from the censure motion should strengthen the Commission's hand.