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How to use the word espionage in a Sentence?

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Obviously, those charges sound extremely fishy, charging a journalist with espionage, and I think that also kind of signals the escalation that the Russians are taking by taking a journalist and wrongfully detaining them and basically taking them hostage.

Trevor Reed

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not that we know TikTok has done something, it’s that distrust of China and awareness of Chinese espionage has increased, the context for TikTok is much worse as trust in China vanishes.

James Lewis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This project […] will promote tourism to the place where thousands of people were saved when fleeing the horrors of war, and where various channels of espionage helped the allies to victory.

Campo Fraile

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They wanted to move a bug. They had three more bugs, which they wanted to plant. They were also going to put a listening device in a smoke detector, this would have been a massive espionage operation had it succeeded.

Tim Naftali

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Why was I left behind ? While I am pleased Trevor is home with his family, I have been held on a fictitious charge of espionage for 40 months, the world knows this charge was fabricated. Why hasn't more been done to secure my release ?

Paul Whelan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The People's Republic of China is a serious threat to our intellectual property. They represent a serious threat with respect to espionage.

Merrick Garland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It doesn’t work that way, and I think that’s the unfair playing advantage as well when it comes to the ever spooky world of espionage.

Security Center Bill Evanina

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If it is cyber espionage, then it one of the most effective cyber espionage campaigns we’ve seen in quite some time.

John Hultquist

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We're not talking about corporate espionage, here.

Neil Chilson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is very hard for me to figure out what China could do uniquely from its consulate in Houston that it could not equally well do from its consulates in Boston, LA, or NY, from the embassy in DC or through non-official cover, it is inconceivable that shutting down a consulate will stop espionage.

Danny Russell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

His crime ? Trying to save an endangered species from extinction, apparently the Iranian regime is unable to distinguish between saving animals from committing espionage.

Brian Hook

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Apparently the Iranian regime is unable to distinguish between saving animals from committing espionage.

Brian Hook

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

My sense is that African rulers do not believe there is anything so valuable that it is worth risking the relationship with China. Some African rulers also personally benefit from engaging with Chinaswanky government buildings are just one examplewhich influences Some African rulers also towards being less wary of Chinese espionage than Some African rulers also might otherwise be.

Joshua Meservey

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Every year I am surprised by the number( of financially motivated attacks), if you look at most of the news that's out there, you see state actors, espionage, trade secrets, but most of these breaches are people wanting to steal money from you.

Sowmyanarayan Sampath

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are various objectives and motivations that lie behind these attacks, from fraud on one hand to espionage, but they tend to be designed to steal bulk personal data, intellectual property and wider information that supports those aims, they're often linked with other state actors, and we expect this kind of predatory criminal behaviour to continue and to evolve over the coming weeks and months ahead, and we're taking a range of measures to tackle that threat.

Dominic Raab

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

China depends on Western technology and as licit avenues are closed, they turn to espionage to get access.

James Lewis

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is an open secret that many technologies branded for law enforcement investigations are used for state-on-state and political espionage.

John Scott-Railton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Mifsud is a kind-mannered person with a vast culture. He is a great storyteller, one who has relationships with academic authorities, my impression is that he was very good at weaving together relationships, but had nothing to do with people involved in espionage.

Gianni Pitella

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

All organizations are vulnerable to insider threats from employees who may use their authorized access to facilities, personnel or information to harm their organizations - intentionally or unintentionally, the harm can range from negligence, such as failing to secure data or clicking on a spear-phishing link, to malicious activities like theft, sabotage, espionage, unauthorized disclosure of classified information or even violence.

William Evanina

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The harm can range from negligence, such as failing to secure data or clicking on a spear-phishing link, to malicious activities like theft, sabotage, espionage, unauthorized disclosure of classified information or even violence.

William Evanina

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The cable is so practical, so important and so emblematic of the relationship between Australia and our key partners in the Pacific, the Coral Sea Cable will deliver for Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands a connected future, Payne said, adding that the aim was for the cable to be operational by December. China denies using economic aid as political leverage, insisting it considers the ability of a country to repay loans when offering finance. In a bid to counter China, Australia has offered A$ 3 billion( $ 2.03 billion) in cheap loans and grants to the Pacific. The competition for influence in the Pacific has soured bilateral relations between Australia and China. The relationship came under further strain on Tuesday when China confirmed it has formally arrested a Chinese-born Australian writer on suspicion of espionage. Yang Hengjun, a former Chinese diplomat turned online journalist and blogger, was detained in January. Payne on Tuesday said Australia held grave concerns about Yang Hengjun and the.

Marise Payne

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The American government needs new tools to protect the integrity of our universities and research, and to block academic espionage.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Regin is the crown jewel of attack frameworks used for espionage. Its architecture, complexity and capability sits in a ballpark of its own, we have seen different components of Regin in the past few months.

Vikram Thakur

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is a great time for spies to operate so advantage can be taken in older traditional forms of espionage, as well as the creation of highly sophisticated platforms of communication for continuous communication and the delivery of information.

Tony Schiena

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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