Roctest, a Canadian company, is working on applying fiber-optic monitoring systems to pipelines, enabling officials to measure the temperature and the strain on a pipeline.
The ruling allows the state to decide how to carry out the order, enabling officials to, for example, substitute other prisoners for early release.
The supposedly tamper-proof bottles that held Russian athletes' doping samples in Sochi were manipulated — enabling officials to switch out their steroid-laced urine.
In 1999, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance issued a tax warrant and lien in the name of Andrea K. Sanderlin, enabling officials to seize her bank accounts and garnish her wages to recoup more than $21,000 in unpaid taxes, according to state records.
Free societies can and must take the necessary steps to protect national security, by enabling officials to counteract and to anticipate genuine threats, while also ensuring that the people are secure 'in their persons, houses, papers, and effects.' " That's a good start.
Flood levels in the town dropped on Sunday, enabling officials to move people to safety by road.
The network can sense an incoming tsunami, enabling officials to send watches and warnings for the United States.
The government listens to what citizens are saying online, thereby enabling officials "to address issues and problems before they get out of control" (see Rebecca MacKinnon's book, "Consent of the Networked").
These included a joint dengue fever investigation between the Lao and Thai provincial sites, enabling officials to effectively stamp out the cross-border outbreak; a joint typhoid investigation between the Lao and Vietnam provincial sites; and a joint avian influenza investigation of cases in humans, triggered by the discovery of an infected Lao citizen in Thailand (15).
