They offer a glimpse of a rule-bound intelligence bureaucracy that is highly sensitive to the distinction between foreigners and "U.S. persons," which technically include not only American citizens and legal residents but American companies and nonprofit organizations as well.
Fifa's disciplinary code has the scope to suspend a player for a maximum of 24 matches – which, technically, can include club games but in practice tends to be only internationals.
As soon as the plans were announced, they were derided by campaigners, experts and activists, with even the home secretary's own advisers saying the bill would be "impossible" to enact – mostly because the Home Office wanted to ban anything deemed "psychoactive", which, technically, would have included alcohol, nicotine and food.
Which, I guess, would technically include VICE.
However, the within-family variation, which technically represents the mean spacing between included births, is considerably smaller, with nearly all groups' mean value lying between 2 and 3 years.
Police seized Farook's electronic devices during the ensuing investigation, including his iPhone, which technically belonged to his employer, San Bernardino County.
That includes play-in games, which technically count as regular-season games.
Although the U.S. has seen its fair share of damaging storms in recent years, including Hurricane Sandy in 2013 (which technically was not a hurricane at landfall), the last major hurricane to strike the U.S. was Hurricane Wilma in 2005.
Which, technically speaking, it was: the B.F. era (Before Fergie).
