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I felt the edges of my vigilance soften, the domino fall of my defenses.
That he was never captured was due to my vigilance, my alertness, my awareness that they were on the family scent, that they would stop at nothing.
But I am a swot who has never accepted that once you leave primary school you don't get gold stars for knowing hard spellings anymore - so I keep up my vigilance about double negatives and the difference between "affect" and "effect", just in case.
The culture minister, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, said today, "I have even written this morning to Jean-René Fourtou to tell him of my vigilance, concern and worry over the future of the companies in Vivendi Universal, which are an essential part of the French cultural heritage".
Towards the end, I asked the brothers Freeman about the thoughts I tend to have on Tube trains, and Daniel reckoned my vigilance is probably just about OK, unless it becomes "unhelpful", which told me what I already know: I think it probably has its uses, so I'm sticking with it.
As it turned out, the bag was filled with clothes once the bag was checked out by the police but, they were grateful for my vigilance and concern for my fellow New Yorkers.
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Where I once thought my constant vigilance was supportive, I realized it was nerve-racking.
Because of my own vigilance, I am a Stage 1, lymph-node-free, breast cancer patient in the midst of only four cycles of chemotherapy.
My anger is a residue of my hyper-vigilance, that I took seriously a vow made that I would not be a bystander to demagogues or political parties that turn normal human emotions such as anger, fear, and vulnerability into collective poison.
My vigilance, I figured, must have driven it away.
My vigilance now extends to babies from television programmes.
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