Sentence examples for gathering the phone from inspiring English sources

If the owner's phone number is unlisted, go knock on his door and explain that the Neighborhood Watch patrol is gathering the phone numbers of all residents in order to alert them of any suspicious activity.

Every day they check local news headlines to log new cases of catastrophic hamburger aversion, and spend hours on the phone gathering the latest intel from allergy clinics and academic centers around the country.

Begin gathering the mail.

But gathering the funding wasn't easy.

Begin by gathering the ingredients.

These are used for gathering the crickets.

Also, sensitivity in that country's robust journalistic culture is already high due to recent covert gathering of the phone records of several journalists at the Associated Press, an event which led the US Attorney-General to issue new guidelines on 12 July 2013.

"Are you telling us," Mr. Koppel continues, still paraphrasing American concerns, that the National Security Agency is gathering private phone records, that the government is sending terror suspects to be tortured abroad, that the C.I.A. is running its own secret prisons, and that detainees are being denied fundamental rights?

— THE revelation that the federal government has been secretly gathering records on the phone calls and online activities of millions of Americans and foreigners seems not to have alarmed most Americans.

The goals include collecting information in a common format, developing prototype methods for gathering information on the phone and Internet and creating a follow-up questionnaire for medical providers.

He said that based on a letter from NSA head Gen. Keith Alexander, the government committed several violations of the Patriot Act in gathering phone records.