Translation of "Von langer hand vorbereitet" in English

As we know, the operation is a protracted one and has been thoroughly prepared.

Everything was prepared well in advance.

Seldom has any reform proposal been so long in preparation.

The second trip may have been planned well beforehand.

I believe that this invasion of Afghanistan was prepared very care fully and at great length.

This has been a long time coming.

But the armed conflict itself must likewise be prepared long in advance.

It all smells of a set-up and one that was being prepared for some time.

Long-planned and meticulously-prepared genocide is carried out in Rwanda.

Moving up into the top WorldTour racing category was a major undertaking, however.

Therefore, this turn was prepared gradually.

Kristallnacht was prepared well in advance by the Nazis.

I suppose you've been preparing this for a while.

Because Bern and Zürich had been preparing the war for a long time, they seized the offensive.

The plan for an expulsion was carefully prepared by the Czech politicians in exile.

This operation had to have been prepared over a rather long time, a half-year at least.

The Russian response had been prepared well in advance and was only awaiting an opportunity to unleash its full force.

Do you get the impression that it's a spontaneous movement or was it planned well in advance by outsiders?

In the initial phase we hope that the specialized Councils will succeed in May in finding solutions to the individual problems, so that a full-scale draft budget can be presented at the June partsession, covering the questions of prices, savings, the British contribution, etc.

I'm sorry about the unexpected pop-in, but I find the more time one has to prepare a lie, the harder it is for me to spot.

Such exchanges are prepared long beforehand and involve considerable financial sacrifices by the families concerned.

The success of Volkswagen taught those who did not know it that victories are built in the long run, especially in a race like the Dakar.

Some images have been prepared long in advance, meticulously executed, carefully balanced in the post-production stage, thus representing the outcome of a longstanding explorative process: Günther Selichar describes his method of deconstructing media images as follows: “There came a point where I was more interested in what lay behind these images than in what they depict.”

While in the past these were mostly carried out by individual hackers who wanted to demonstrate their skills to secure their reputation in the network community, today’s attacks are often prepared meticulously and executed with near-military precision, using professional tools.