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For example, if set up at the entrance to a terminal to mark out potential terrorists, it would be of limited use if there are not security personnel available on the spot to intercept them.

Shabtai Shoval

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It could take up to three of four months, the reason why (it will take that long) is we are literally going underground about 8,500 feet. We've got to locate this well and intercept it and pour the cement necessary to kill the well.

Jimmie Cho

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This isn't just about cooperating with the French authorities - it's about cooperating across Europe with intelligence agencies, with police authorities to ensure that we intercept these people, we identify them and we prevent them going about their murderous plans wherever they are planning and plotting and wherever they are seeking to attack.

Philip Hammond

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is great timing because it demonstrates our capability to track and intercept the kind of missiles that are being fired in and against Syria, it proves that sensors from another country's ship can be used to give the Navy early warning of potential threats, and those ships can be used to protect American ships.

Riki Ellison

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One of the maneuvers conducted by the Chinese aircraft during this intercept was perceived as unsafe by the RC-135 air crew and at this point, right now, there's no indication this was a near collision, but the report that came back was that the plane operated in an unsafe fashion.

Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have a lot of wireless technology around us, things we don't think about. We think of some data as meaningless pretty much everything that transmits wirelessly happens on some frequency. So if we can pick up on what the frequency is, do some analysis on that data, we could maybe intercept or replace that data.

Michael Ham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have asked the PFG to intercept any tankers trying to approach the oilfields for security and technical reasons. The force majeure is still in place.

Yousef Bu Saifi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What we've seen in the last couple of years is what we suspect to be governments trying to intercept communications, in one case, there were Iranian-region Gmail users whose connection was being intercepted.

Parisa Tabriz

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In its digital attack on Belgacom, the British secret service was able to intercept more communications than was previously realised.

De Standaard

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In its digital attack on Belgacom, the British secret service was able to intercept more communications than was previously realized.

De Standaard

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.

Bruce Lee

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Calvin Coolidge

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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