Sentence examples for means of intercepting from inspiring English sources

"When people use a telephone, under certain circumstances, law enforcement has a means of intercepting that," he said.

There was this driver, and there was also a pressing need for a means of intercepting Soviet ballistic missiles, as well as ensuring the US's missiles reached their targets.

BP continued its efforts to insert a tube, meant to intercept the flow of oil, into the broken drill pipe using robotic submarines.

When Ronald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a system of lasers and missiles meant to intercept incoming ICBMs, the plan was quickly labeled "Star Wars," implying that it was science fiction and linking it to Reagan's acting career.

The proposed new reflector geometries will be compared to the classical Eurotrough-type parabolic-trough geometry by means of the intercept factor and the tolerance to absorber displacements respect to the design location.

For example, if a forecaster expected only positive survival improvements, she or he could set the uniformly distributed priors for the overall means of the intercepts and slopes to a range of nonnegative values (for more information please see additional notes in the "Model and prior specification" section).

Effect of sex and age (Z-scores) were modeled on the means of the Intercept, Linear slope, and Quadratic slope (see " Statistical Analyses" section).

Effects of age (Z-scores) and sex (coded 0 for men and 1 for women) were modeled on the means of the Intercept, Linear slope, and Quadratic slope factors.

The age effect on the Intercept was estimated at 2.86, suggesting a substantial increase in the mean of the Intercept factor with every standard deviation increase in age.

To minimize effects of sorting, we repeated the same procedure after sorting by the glomeruli data and used the means of slope and intercept for the final adjustment function (y = 0.9392425x + 1.17905).

Different sources of variability were estimated by means of a random intercept model with restricted maximum likelihood (REML) method.