Espionage Sentence Examples

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  • Another section declared non-mailable all written or printed matter which violated any provision of the Espionage Act.

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  • These agencies often turned their skills toward economic espionage.

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  • In all, 1,532 persons were arrested under the Espionage Act.; about 75 more for threats against the President or for sabotage.

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  • The organization, which investigates economic espionage in the United States, is the FBI.

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  • In the first weeks after the United States had declared war, Congress rejected an amendment to the Espionage Act that would have established a censor's bureau.

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  • The obsession that the country was full of German spies persisted until 1918, although Federal officers had broken up German espionage early in the war.

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  • The couple were charged with conspiracy to commit espionage.

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  • E-mail may also be an ideal medium for industrial espionage.

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  • The book's high points are sections relating to what the authors call atomic espionage and the CP Washington spy apparatus.

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  • From there the reader is launched into a world of political intrigue, espionage, and attempted assassinations.

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  • Tom Clancy is an American writer focusing on espionage and military science.

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  • So who started all this 3D espionage type games?

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  • If political intrigue and espionage are more to your liking, The Sentinel may be right up your alley.

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  • After beating his arachnophobia, Miles kept a pet Lycosa tarantula named Christina.In 2372, Miles was captured and falsely accused of espionage on the Argrathi home world.

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  • But we owe something to the Irish practice which first popularized the idea of maintaining a strict supervision over convicts in a state of conditional release, and it reconciled us to a system which was long wrongfully stigmatized as espionage.

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  • Very soon she begins to lose herself in a shady quagmire of corporate duplicity and espionage.

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  • We learned from Iraq that you will conduct espionage.

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  • Complete unique mission objectives, including espionage, theft and assassination.

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  • We can and we will prevent espionage, sabotage, or other actions endangering our national security.

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  • They ranged from collusion with state and regularity authorities, generating favorable publicity about the safety of its products, and even espionage.

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  • Some of the more unpopular officials associated with the old regime were assassinated, among them Fehim Pasha, the former head of the espionage department, who had been exiled to Brusa in 1907 at the request of the British and German ambassadors.

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  • A well-nigh ubiquitous system of espionage, perhaps most fruitful when directed against - official corruption, sapped the foundations of public confidence.

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  • The country had heard much of the German espionage system, spies were suspected everywhere, and many acts of sabotage, arson, and violence in factories engaged in munition production were ascribed to them.

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  • She balances her home life as a mom of two and her espionage life where she is a secret agent, and rescues the world from terror.

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  • Theft of trade secrets and critical technologies -- what we call economic espionage -- costs our nation upwards of $ 250 billion a year.

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  • The bestseller The Cuckoo's Egg described a recent computer espionage attempt.

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  • In turn, Scott introduces Robinson to the dazzling world of espionage and high-tech spy gadgetry.

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  • Never underestimate the espionage technique of the tiny bladder.

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  • Baron Paul Rauch, the Magyar nominee as Ban, failed, with all his official apparatus, to secure a single seat for his creatures at the general election of 1908, and therefore proceeded to govern without Parliament, by an elaborate system of administrative pressure, press persecution and espionage.

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  • Diogo Ignacio de Pina Manique, organized an elaborate system of espionage which led to the imprisonment or exile of many harmless enthusiasts.

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  • On the 24th an irade announced the restoration of the suspended constitution of 1875; next day, further irades abolished espionage and the censorship, and ordered the release of political prisoners.

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  • In Mesopotamia and Yemen disturbance was endemic; nearer home, a semblance of loyalty was maintained in the army and among the Mussulman population by a system of delation and espionage, and by wholesale arrests; while, obsessed by terror of assassination, the sultan withdrew himself into fortified seclusion in the palace of Yildiz.

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  • In 1917 he gave his support to the declaration of war against Germany, and also to all the war measures, including the Selective Draft and Espionage bills.

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  • No sort of espionage is attempted, no effort made to penetrate privacy; no claim to pry into the secret actions of law-abiding persons is or would be tolerated; the agents of authority must not seek information by underhand or unworthy means.

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  • His last years were embittered by remorse, by gloomy forebodings, and by constant suspicion, for he had always been in the habit of employing a system of espionage, and only then experienced its evil effects.

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  • Acquittals and cases pending reduced the number of those actually convicted under the Espionage Act to about 600.

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  • Although not a mere grasping adventurer, he was largely responsible for reducing the internal administration of the country to an abominable system of espionage, corruption and cruelty.

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  • To Fenelon such employment was clearly uncongenial; and if he was rather too ready to employ unsavoury methods - such as bribery and espionage - among his proselytes, his general conduct was kindly and statesmanlike in no slight degree.

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  • His government was a military despotism resting upon a well-appointed army; it was administered through officials absolutely subservient to an inflexible will and controlled by a widespread system of espionage; while the exercise of his personal authority was too often stained by acts of unnecessary cruelty.

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  • For the system of secret diplomacy and organized espionage, known as the Secret du roi, carried on under the auspices of Louis XV., see Albert due de Broglie, Le Secret du roi.

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  • Its founder, with a wise instinct, had forbidden the accumulation of wealth; its own constitutions, as revised in the 84th decree of the sixth general congregation, had forbidden all pursuits of a commercial nature, as also had various popes; but nevertheless the trade went on unceasingly, necessarily with the full knowledge of the general, unless it be pleaded that the system of obligatory espionage had completely broken down.

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  • Henceforth the various corps lost more and more their territorial character, one nationality was set to watch and control the other, and espionage and delation prevailed.

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  • Ferdinand and Maria Carolina had continued to reign in Sicily, where the extravagance of the court and the odious Neapolitan system of police espionage rendered their presence a burden instead of a blessing to the island.

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  • A well-nigh ubiquitous system of espionage, perhaps most fruitful when directed against official corruption, sapped the foundations of public confidence.

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  • His visiting espionage, as unkind critics put it - his secret diplomatic mission, as he would have liked to have it put himself - began in the summer of 1722, and he set out for it in company with a certain Madame de Rupelmonde, to whom he as usual made love, taught deism and served as an amusing travelling companion.

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