Translation of "Weiche ziele" in English

Terrorists strike at soft targets, not well-defended military bases.

This results in high efficiency, particularly against soft targets.

To that end, among the possible targets of the laser scanner 10, hard targets and soft targets have to be discriminated.

Another consequence of the choices we are making for the Lisbon Strategy is that the goals that we are proposing will not always be soft goals.

Retail terrorists – individuals or small groups carrying out armed attacks against soft targets in open societies – are extremely difficult to deal with.

Indeed, given extremist violence in Sri Lanka (Tamil Tigers), West Bengal (Naxalites), Bangladesh (Islamic fundamentalists), Southern Thailand (Islamic separatists), Java (Jemaah Islamiyah), and Basilan (Abu Sayyaf), the possibility that Al Qaeda and its satellites are plotting attacks elsewhere, especially against soft targets, poses a real danger to the region.

Though much of the violence in Iraq over the past six years has been random, aimed at soft targets such as markets and restaurants, its nature changed last summer.

The EU has a well-developed environmental policy framework comprising numerous directives and other soft policy targets and objectives, the implementation of which is followed generally on a sectoral basis.

Stage a) only allows the idea of participation addressing the "metaenvironment" to direct the research effort towards soft-type applications that give greater heed to the human factor and to respect of the eco-systems.

This goal can be energy consumption, fossil fuel consumption, food consumption or even softer goals like social behavior.

Preferably, only high modulation frequencies in the MHz to GHz range are emitted so that the system becomes selective with regard to transit times of hard targets and blind with regard to soft targets, such as rain, mist or snowfall.

However, some inserts work so well that they generate small, additional fragments which can improve the effect, particularly against soft, near-range targets.

In addition, a classification of the interference by soft targets is supported, for example to adapt or at least record the application conditions.

In contrast to hard targets, soft targets cause a broad signal echo which is shown in FIG. 2 b in an idealized manner.

It is referred to this signal as the fog signal in the following, because soft targets are formed by a large number of small particles, such as fog, fine dust or soot.

In connection with the Madrid attack the bureaucrats and the official commentators in the media had a cynical concept available: attack against "soft targets", against crowds of people.

But the more the IS falls behind on the battlefields the more it will try to attack 'soft targets' - or in other words carry out attacks in Europe.

The system is intended to defeat personnel, armored, and soft targets in concentration areas, artillery batteries, command posts and ammunition depots.

For example, the article by Frederick Kitchens, an Air Force expert, revels in the vocabulary of tactical bombing, describing the crematoria as "relatively soft targets of brick construction" (p. 86).

Hospitals fall into a category I think of as “soft targets,” meaning hospitals generally focus on patient care as their top priority, as opposed to having the best cyber defenders on staff and best cyber defense technologies in place.

The increase in terrorism has changed the threat landscape, as recent attacks on soft targets in the UK, France, Belgium and Germany have made all too clear.

Thus the bomblets unfold a "blanket effect against soft and medium hard targets", as Rheinmetall advertises the product on their website.A Violation of the Geneva Conventions.Actiongroup Landmine.de is campaigning for the abolition of cluster munitions.

Teens are the easy and soft target that can manipulate with romantic phrases .

Africa is the world’s only remaining “soft target” where outside powers can battle it out for access to mineral resources.

The smaller actor cannot compete with the larger in terms of military might, but it can use violence to set the world agenda and construct narratives that affect its targets’ soft power.

When an insurgent organization loses control of territory or battlefield momentum, it resorts to terrorism, reasoning that attacks on softer civilian targets are cheaper, easier, and just as politically effective.

The aim of these conclusions is to underline the importance of protection of soft targets and encourage cooperation in this area.

The Council then adopted conclusions on the protection of soft targets from terrorist activities and took note of an implementation report on enhancing the links between internal and external aspects of counter-terrorism.