Soldiers and civilians overlap in images of Americans apprehending a counterfeit ring or of a backhoe opening a mass grave in Hilla.
Gen. Edwin L. Silbert wrote, "When called upon in an emergency you assumed the responsibility of apprehending a personality high in the annals of the Nazi system".
Zhu Xi saw one's self-cultivation as a matter of apprehending the li of one's own mind, largely through meditation practice, and, at the same time, investigating the li or patterns of things not only as revealed in texts such as the Analects but as embodied in concrete situations, including the patterns in relationships between persons.
In an era of information overload, the photograph provides a quick way of apprehending something and a compact form for memorizing it.
David Cross tells a story of apprehending eight kids in a stolen car who were about to scatter on foot when he gave the required verbal warning: "Stop or I'll release the canine!" He adds dryly, "They chose to give up".
"As inflammatory as this tape might be," Mayor Street said, "we have to keep in mind that the police were in the process of apprehending a criminal suspect who had resisted a number of attempts to arrest him and who had shot a police officer".
It marked a turning point in the modern world view, including "the elevation of irony to a standard mode of apprehending the world, the unbuttoning of moral codes and the conscious embrace of the irrational".
There are a couple of London coppers played by Stephen Rea and Rupert Graves and in the course of apprehending a suspect Graves actually uses the word "chummy" - for which he deserved to have his collar felt by someone or other.
Memory preserves past apprehension by conceiving of an event previously apprehended and believing, of this event, that it happened to me.
Both scenarios described above relate to increases in the risk of detection: the former serves to deter would-be thieves and the latter boosts the probability of an offender being apprehended.
