Sentence examples for pounce without from inspiring English sources

More disturbingly, this six-tonne, six-wheeled monster developed for America's Department of Defence and otherwise known as the Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle, or UGV, can pounce without the intervention or say-so of a human operator.

Instead of taking up golf, his new hobby is going down to City Hall and stalking Boris through his old corridors of power like Banquo's ghost or, as Dave Hill on the Guardian's Comment is Free put it, like 'Cato Fong, the half-mad martial-arts exponent who used to pounce without warning on Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther movies'.

Decorously, she waited a week, and then pounced without telling Mr. Swope.

Mr. Fuqua went to the pinnacle of business success by fits and starts, as the illness pounced without warning, rendering him helpless, then retreated.

Both of them breathed a sigh of relief when the only female kitten at the shelter pounced without hesitation on the red laser beam Jack shined into her cage.

On the inside he is a predator, biding his time or pouncing without regard to current market wisdom.

The difference in response to Brenthia versus controls was marked: spiders began stalking control moths soon after an individual was introduced into the arena and, usually after only a few pounces and without hesitation, caught and fed on the non-mimetic prey (see video S3 showing five trials with control moths).

Republicans are much more comfortable being Monday-morning quarterbacks, eager to pounce on anything Obama does wrong without having to explain beforehand how they would do anything differently.

When remembering the shopping list, for instance – they would remember the individual parts (headlights, wipers and so on) without pouncing on the overall concept – the car.

It costs him nothing technically: he is able to pounce on a phrase at full power without turning it into a muddle.

It is one thing to pounce on loose balls, but quite another to attack without regard for the bowling.