Sentence examples for the intercepting from inspiring English sources

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the intercepting

verb

To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).

  • The police intercepted the package of stolen goods while it was in transit.

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However, the time limit for retention permitted under the internal policies of GCHQ, the intercepting agency, was overlooked in regard to the product of that interception, such that it was retained for materially longer than permitted under those policies".

He also accused Thames of failing to maintain the existing network, with the intercepting sewers designed by the pioneering Victorian engineer Joseph Bazalgette running "dangerously close" to overflow.

The original crossover martial artist, a local child star turned celebrated creator of Jeet Kune Do, the art of the intercepting fist, Lee made only a handful of films after his international breakthrough.

The hardest punch in the history of fists, endless masochistic films, a bloodied face that sold Oriental 'self-defence' techniques to generations of Westerners, and through it all Lee developed the 'way of the intercepting fist'.

23 Another last-ditch Tongan challenge, this time by the intercepting Va'enuku, prevents the Welsh finding a way through after quick lay-offs by Cooper and Harris down the right flank.

The intercepting missile refused to separate from its booster rocket, so no collision was attempted; and in a separate setback, the decoy balloon did not inflate.The Pentagon's Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation (BMDO) is still at an early stage in its programme of 19 tests.

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The distance between the intercepts is the peak width.

It was idleness by the man who read the intercept.

He said other sensors were able to confirm the intercept.

I was relieved when Digger put me on the intercept.

But The Intercept alone can't do it for him.

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