Translation of "Procrustean bed" in German

This mystery is the Procrustean bed of physical Science.

Which emerges to be quite a Procrustean bed for levels.

But the Procrustean bed of business rationality, which everything is to be subjugated under, is always the same.

Social security, health, welfare and education systems are being laid on a Procrustean bed, with sweeping changes being made to the detriment of workers, further paving the way for the penetration of monopoly business groups in these wealth-producing sectors for capitalism.

The EU 2020 strategy follows on from and extends the anti-grassroots Lisbon Strategy by laying down the strategic objectives and plans of monopoly capital and laying the workers' fundamental wage and social rights on a Procrustean bed.

In keeping with what is now the Union's standard approach, the report also ties tourism to the Procrustean bed of the laws of the market and competition in order to accommodate the interests of big business in the tourist sector, thereby dealing a mortal blow to small and medium-sized - and especially small - businesses in the industry.

Accordingly as a comparative lawyer I approach the European court in as pure a state of innocence as I can manage, concerned to observe it for what it is, not desiring to classify it by constraining it upon the Procrustean bed of categories already known to me in order to fit my pre-existing fancies, but on the contrary animated by the highest degree of benevolence and predisposed most sympathetically to appreciate and to admire the triumphs and successes which I confidently expect it to have achieved.

After critical examination, his entire scheme thus seems like a procrustean bed into which he, for the sake of diagnostic order, forces all sorts of phenomena that are actually independent of one another.

The Locarno Conference gives this order of things juridical sanction in the sense that Germany's new frontiers are preserved to the advantage of Poland, are preserved to the advantage of France; that Germany loses her colonies, and at the same time, pinioned and forced into a Procrustean bed, must take all measures to pump out 130,000 million gold marks.

Neutralize the competition in several ways: the most pliable “tame” cooperation, uncompromising drive into the Procrustean bed of stiff competition, but to intimidate other potential lawsuits over the misuse of intellectual property.

We would be committing a great mistake if we attempted to force the complex, urgent, rapidly developing practical tasks of the revolution into the Procrustean bed of narrowly conceived “theory” instead of regarding theory primarily and predominantly as a guide to action.

Such an organization would ever be a Procrustean bed into which violence, more or less sanctioned by the State, would force the unfortunate society.

If there are journalists who improvising theologians are beyond their competence and invade sometimes arrogant and vain complacency field theologian, This can also happen because unfortunately there are theologians who do not have sufficient estimate of loftiness of their discipline, but reduce or solve the level of simple pastoral, moreover with colorings sociopolitical, sometimes extremely partial and subjective, to deprive the theological discourse of its independence, freedom and universality and to transform, humiliate and snap it like a Procrustean bed, almost to the extent of a thesis or party program.

If philosophy was nevertheless able to serve as a means of surveying phenomena, of contemplation, it still was not suitable as an instrument for practical influence on the world, as an instrument for understanding the world. The last system of this kind was the system of Hegel, who attempted to erect a philosophical structure, subordinating all other sciences, pressing them into the Procrustean bed of its own categories. Hegel counted on solving all contradictions, but fell into a hopeless contradiction with the dialectical method which he himself had divined but not understood, and hence applied incorrectly.