"Critical sections [of the border] have been identified.
Operation Hold the Line in El Paso and Operation Gatekeeper in San Diego fenced critical sections of the border and deployed hundreds of agents.
The "blasters", as contractors who specialise in such work are known, position charges to tear apart critical sections of supporting structures.
Mr. Ashcroft sent his letter after Mr. Bush, in a rejoinder to critics of the antiterrorism law, urged Congress in his State of the Union address to renew those critical sections that expire at the end of next year.
But it did prevent the United States from playing a more central role in writing critical sections of the Intergovernmental Panel's report -- particularly the part assessing the extent of human influence on the warming trend of recent decades.
A senior administration official said that one of the most critical sections of the proposed sanctions was modeled on a resolution passed last year against North Korea, after its second nuclear test.
The F calculated for critical sections, which is identified through slope-joint relationship from stereonet plot.
In the following, the subscript "s" represents critical sections ("s" = "cr,""ys," or "us").
Thus, the support and mid-span are normal stress critical sections.
Tested specimens were instrumented with strain gauges mounted on critical sections of each pipe.
The strain and stress distributions along critical sections of the web are presented in this paper.
