Sentence examples for spook world from inspiring English sources

My solution was to invent a spook world better suited to my needs".

My solution was to invent a spook world better suited to my needs, just as the A.I.O. had done.

From this line grew my odyssey into the spook world of the 60s and the secrets behind the death of Bobby Kennedy.

The Estonian authorities have released some details of a case that has had the spook world buzzing for the past year.Russia's foreign intelligence service, the SVR, recruited Mr Simm on his holiday in Tunisia in 1995.

He was, in addition — if discreetly — mad, and living in a secret bubble all his own, a condition that in the spook world, rather like a superbug in a hospital, is endemic, hard to detect, and harder still to eradicate.

First, by an extraordinary sleight of hand, le Carré contrived to make a fictive world seem tangible and real, what he has called "a spook world better suited to my needs".

The goal: to spook the world into thinking South Korea was a dangerous place.

Even a low-profile film project in conflict with Bush dogma has spooked the world's largest media company, Time Warner, proprietor of CNN.

See, for example, "The Company That Spooked the World," The Economist, Aug. 4, 2012; and M. Kan, "China's Huawei and ZTE Grilled by U.S. Committee Over Spying Concerns," Sept. 14, 2012, www.pcworld.com.

This shift to private negotiations – instead of industry-wide standards – spooked the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its founder, web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, into a controversial plan to add DRM to HTML5, the next-generation web standard.

We were not wrong to take the right honourable member at his word.Jesse Norman, MP Hereford and South HerefordshireI spySIR – One thing to bear in mind about cybersecurity concerns posed by telecoms-equipment firms ("The company that spooked the world", August 4th) is that most communications surveillance is carried out by governments eavesdropping on their own citizens.