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How to use the word sophisticated in a Sentence? Page #6

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They’ve gotten very sophisticated in how they obtain drugs and go about their activities.

Jim Arnold

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

At one point, Bernie Madoff cornered the hot chocolate market, bernie Madoff bought up every package of Swiss Miss from the commissary and sold Swiss Miss for a profit in the prison yard. Bernie Madoff monopolized hot chocolate ! Bernie Madoff made Swiss Miss so that if you wanted any, you had to go through Bernie Madoff. Bernie Madoff, once the Nasdaq chairman, used Bernie Madoff reputation and savvy to dupe sophisticated investors, regulators and Wall Street banks. Bernie Madoff confessed in December 2008 that Bernie Madoff was running a multi decade Ponzi scheme and that more than $ 65 billion Bernie Madoff claimed to have on hand for investors had dwindled to a few hundred million dollars from an original investment of about $ 20 billion. Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty to fraud and is serving a 150-year prison sentence in Butner, N.C. Fishman reportedly hosts an Audible series called.

Steve Fishman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This next president is going to inherit the most sophisticated and persistent cyber espionage cultures the world has ever seen, He needs to surround himself with experts that can expedite the allocation of potent layers of next generation defenses around our targeted critical infrastructure silos.

James Scott

added by issacnash
7 years ago

It was kind of more of a Wild West industry back a hundred years ago, and the technology wasn’t as sophisticated, people would just pump oil, and in some cases the ground would subside—fairly dramatically.

Susan Hough

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Many members of Isis are not sophisticated attackers. The majority of members do not have a technical background. The UCC is predominately capable of hacking soft targets, such as Twitter accounts, and spreading propaganda or defacing websites

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

added by Matthew jhon
7 years ago

The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via ‘clunky as heck’ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

added by williamson
7 years ago

Look at the stealth and sophistication of foreign nation state APTs who break through even the most sophisticated layers of security daily and tell me why they would just give our completely unprotected election systems a pass

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

added by williamson
7 years ago

[ Sophisticated ] robbers could work with a corrupt diamond cutter... in one of the jewelry centers such as Antwerp, and have the [ stone ] re-cut and the laser [ inscription ] removed, and the diamond re-set, the goal is to change the weight, appearance and to some degree the shape of her diamond so it appears to be a different stone and then market it. Perhaps getting a new diamond grading report from a European lab, and not from Geological Institute of America.

John Kennedy

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

In countries where the food system is less sophisticated and we see crushing poverty, the margin between harvest season and hungry season is palpable, these populations can dip into actual deficiency with Vitamin A, especially in respect to young, growing children who can become what we call ‘night blind.'.

Keith West

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Organized cybercrime, hacktivists, other state-sponsored groups will take advantage of such sophisticated tools and use them unscrupulously, when you think that companies and individuals still get infected by malware that has been patched years ago, this offers a lucrative opportunity for malicious actors to use some powerful tools.

Michela Menting

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Look, we could see 15 years ago that this would be perfectly possible, it’s well within the capabilities of a country as sophisticated as Russia.

Professor Andrew Appel

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Multiple Democratic party organizations, including our campaign and staff, have been the subject of attempted cyber attacks that experts say are Russian intelligence agencies, which enlist some of the most sophisticated hackers in the world.

Glen Caplin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Forensic evidence points pretty clearly to a very sophisticated nation state, this is a well-resourced adversary.Specifically, they are using the same tools and techniques previously associated with Russia.

Bob Gourley

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This most recent attack is yet further evidence of a complex web of threats that are capable of sophisticated, sustained attacks against both soft and hard targets.

Peter Metzger

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This has huge benefits in terms of economies of scale, innovation and sustainability. As a result, it is one of the most sophisticated and cleanest sites in the world.

Gerben Hieminga

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The problem is the IRGC doesn't walk out there waving a flag and saying, 'Hey, I own 51.4 percent of this company; don't deal with me,' the banks are being asked to deal in a world where you have very sophisticated players who over the course of years of sanctions have become very good at hiding themselves.

Aaron Hutman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It will be the most sophisticated and technologically forward-looking presentation we have ever done.

Chief Executive Officer Brian Roberts

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Not only are ideas getting bolder and more original, but highly sophisticated domestic funds are being established at a dizzying pace. Globally there’s unrivaled scale in China by sovereign entities, high net-worth families and smart diversified Chinese listed corporations, and I expect this to continue right through 2016 and beyond.

Phillip Kingston

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We don’t expect these companies to experience much success. Equity crowdfunding isn’t easy or inexpensive, and the SEC has important safeguards like bad actor checks and reporting requirements that will eliminate most of the riff-raff, plus, the public is sophisticated these days and has access to enough information to make well-informed decisions.

Jeff Annison and Paul Scanlan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I think they’ve concluded from Trump’s blunt style that he wasn’t sophisticated, i think we’re finding quite differently. The man is smart, hard working, strong, and he’s got the courage to make change.

Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Japan is very keen to secure a significant piece of overseas business following the relaxation of its export legislation, and this Australian submarine deal was widely regarded as becoming a landmark trade, the tradecraft required to convince a sophisticated domestic buyer that Japan's was superior to that offered by France was lacking.

Paul Burton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The most successful attacks by more sophisticated hackers tend to be strategically “indirect”. Why risk attacking Target directly and getting caught. Just hack the HVAC contractor and use their access to Target’s network

James Scott

added by anonymous
8 years ago

The securities at issue were marketed and sold to sophisticated institutional investors and their performance has been consistent with the sector as a whole, it is also worth noting that the alleged victim in this case elected not to pursue its own lawsuit against the firm.

Morgan Stanley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Neanderthals are often thought of to be simple-minded mumbling, bumbling, stumbling fools, but the more we know about them the more sophisticated they've become.

Kansas University David Frayer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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