So I was surprised when Kagame slipped into the reception room so quietly that he materialized next to me before I realized it, welcoming me with a shy smile.
He materializes before Marceline and Finn, attempts to kill Finn, and successfully steals Marceline's axe bass.
By emphasizing interrogation over due process, the government intended to preëmpt future attacks before they materialized.
Many other suspected plots failed or were disrupted before they materialized.
Thomas Pickard, the acting F.B.I. director in the summer of 2001, told Ms. Mayer that when he expressed his fears about the Qaeda threat to Mr. Ashcroft, the attorney general snapped, "I don't want to hear about that anymore!" After 9/11, our government emphasized "interrogation over due process," Ms. Mayer writes, "to pre-empt future attacks before they materialized".
Tall and mussed, he had materialized just before the train pulled out.
Italian governments routinely pledge to fight tax evasion, often budgeting for billions of euros in hoped-for revenues well before they materialize, but the illegal practice has proved impossible to stamp out.
Taxed, put on a multiple of 10 and offset by the expected $500 million of one-off costs, these are worth less than $2 billion after adjusting for the five-year delay before they materialize in full.
Detaining those who have not yet committed overt deeds that warrant prosecution also allows pre-emptive action to be taken to neutralize threats before they materialize into actual harm.
However, Karen Greenberg, an expert in counter-terrorism policy at Fordham University, questioned whether the growth in the database's size made it easier for officials to spot threats before they materialize.
