(1) They tried to basically spread a dragnet and see how many people they can fish out.(2) He wasn't even a protester - just a city resident who went out to a deli for some matzo ball soup and innocently walked into a police dragnet that was indiscriminately scooping up hundreds of people.(3) The anti-terror legislation has been used to conduct a police dragnet , with over 500 arrests of u2018terrorist suspectsu2019.(4) When he nevertheless made a clean getaway, he made little effort to escape the massive police dragnet throughout northern Georgia.(5) Police threw a dragnet around the city and caught the two thugs.(6) Ecology Action Centre challenges the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on dragnet fishing policy.(7) Pedestrians were also caught in the police dragnet and interviewed by officers searching for even the smallest clue that could spark a new line of inquiry.(8) An RSPCA dragnet of the area surrounding the pond failed to locate the beast, and the organisation warned locals to keep their eyes peeled for rogue reptiles.(9) Months later, the dragnet still had not turned up the poachers who had left an indelible mark on such a severely endangered species: for the Asian elephant, the loss of five animals is grave.(10) The city fishermen use the shore seine, a huge dragnet attached to a three-kilometre long rope to catch species like the small stolephorus fish.(11) To avoid the police dragnet , he did not use a mobile telephone.(12) In the words of a national center on institutions and alternatives, this nation has u2018replaced the social safety net with a dragnet .u2019(13) The search was conducted more like a police dragnet than a traditional intelligence investigation.(14) Unlike 10 years ago, there were no pitch invasions this time, but a couple of spectators managed to elude the police dragnet on the circumference of the boundary to run out to the middle to embrace their hero.(15) Many pupils struggled to get to school after buses were cancelled and huge traffic jams developed as police set up dragnets to try to catch the sniper.(16) The use of fine-mesh dragnets by fishing crews, despite a ban by the Mauritian government, has caused huge damage to the barrier reef, and the banks of living coral that protect the entire coastline are dying.
