Translation of "Verbrannten erde" in English

The new strategy is a scorched earth and ethnic cleansing strategy.

Famine soon hit Ulster as a result of the English scorched earth strategy.

So, we've gone from settlement to scorched earth.

Scorched-earth policy tonight.

Again, Tahmasp adopted a scorched earth policy, laying waste to Armenia.

In Oran, and all over the country, it's the OAS' scorched earth policy.

We add the element of scorched earth.

The war saw widespread use, by both sides, of scorched earth tactics.

In my opinion, such a far-reaching scorched earth policy is really unnecessary.

The history of Baathism ends up in a catastrophic failure scorching all the earth around.

They remain in the scorched earth.

A party of the Russian military tactics included a scorched-earth policy.

They employ scorched earth politics to reach this aim.

But a scorched-earth policy does incur costs.

And they burned the Earth and the air and the cities and the sea!

The effects of the drought were worsened through the use, by both sides, of scorched earth tactics.

A scorched earth policy to create the famous Hindenburg line, the withdrawal line.

The policy of "scorched earth," with a revolutionary perspective, is, of course, the only correct one.

The policy of “scorched earth,” with a revolutionary perspective, is, of course, the only correct one.

They called the tactic of scorched earth tactics which was a very fitting name.

We must be credible to the Israeli people, and I do not believe we are going to achieve that through a ‘scorched earth policy’.

Millions have fallen victim to a scorched earth struggle between Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s Arab-dominated regime, and its Janjaweed militias, and ethnic African secessionists in Darfur.

On the scorched earth of Angola, which has such abundant mineral resources, the European Union, with its experience, its technical and financial resources, can assist in the emergence of a new model in Africa, that of a model of national recovery which needs to be based primarily on the education of its citizens, achieved through knowledge gained from schooling, from the respect of civilian values and citizenship and the requirement for democracy.

As with most conflicts, it is the civilian population who have suffered most from militia raids, the destruction of villages, scorched-earth policies and forcible displacements.

However no accurate independent and objective information is available to confirm a large-scale scorched earth policy organised and implemented by the government.

I would like to hear whether the Commission is going to make any effort, or is making any effort, to try to establish whether or not there is a scorched earth policy.

Boehner’s forced departure makes it likelier than ever that the US – and the world – will soon face the prospect of another self-inflicted economic shock, caused entirely by the Republicans’ scorched-earth budget tactics.