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Interceptors can intercept and destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles during their midcourse phase of flight.
When Lewis's body guard tried to intercept the ruthless former champion, Tyson decked him.
To the fore came satellite imagery and the National Security Agency's capacity to intercept communications.
Since they are flying objects nobody from the ground will be able to intercept them and seize the confidential letters.
Thus, it must be something that is happening in the atmosphere to intercept solar radiation.
He heard the whine of steel on scabbard and drew his two swords, barely crossing them in time to intercept her drive.
The intercept of the extrapolated regression line and x-axis was taken to be an estimate of the presentation time.
Because the intercept was expected to pass through the origin, it was fixed at zero for each fit.
This relationship is decreasing, with a slope and intercept significantly different from zero.
Likelihood and regression analyses give slightly different estimates of the slope and intercept.
The lasers talk to the computer, which moves a blocking device to intercept the puck.
He changed the fortune of the game by a gloriously timed intercept and a 50 metre run to the line.
As liberals in today's world we have to accept greater use of intercept communication, surveillance and plea-bargaining.
The jets attempted to intercept and identify the source of the contrail, but no visual or confirmed radar contact was made, he added.
Toward this effort the United States has cooperative agreements with many other nations to intercept drug activity.
Every day little dugouts would skilfully intercept our boat, almost rolling in the wake before lashing on properly.
As part of their primary mission, NATO fighter pilots sit on continuous alert, ready to intercept and identify uninvited aircraft.
Billions of virus-like packets of little news factoids fly around the net, and people intercept packets that meet criteria of interest.
Such was the poor state of US intelligence communication, German code-breakers found it easy to intercept and interpret cables.
But one of the heavy cruisers was maneuvering to intercept them, and was closing fast.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Was there no postman or postmaster whom he could suborn to intercept them for him?
At an angle calculated to intercept the caravan, Kingozi set off down the hill.
The object of the expedition was to intercept the Spanish plate fleet at the Azores.
Dixon whirled and flung up his shielded left arm just in time to intercept the violet bolt of the other centaurian.
The cobbles which he was able to intercept had just been employed in transferring the contraband from the dogger to the shore.
He dashes at top speed for the only point where his hands may intercept that hard-hit ball.
She must make that point and so intercept Hervey with a telegraphic message.
The interceptor missiles had to detect it, swing to intercept, to accelerate furiously.
Thus he had to launch the interceptor when the missile was twenty-seven degrees from intercept.
For a week Capt. Merwin and his men remained in the vicinity to intercept any band of Indians that might be passing westward.
They should have a summer mulch to intercept the radiation of moisture from the soil.
If you can intercept her before she gets there, or waylay her when she leaves, why there you are.
Are you willing that the tempter should intercept it, and respire it polluted into your ear?
Perceiving that a stray sunbeam glimmered down upon his face, the lady contrived to twist a branch aside, so as to intercept it.
He left Chartres, and marched south, to intercept him on his way back.
They beefed up their West African Squadron to intercept slave smugglers, eventually bombarding barracoons or slave forts on the coast.
They were all stalking seaward, as if to intercept the escape of the multitudinous vessels that were crowded between Foulness and the Naze.
I ran to take it from her, for the box was full of books, but she shook her head, and was on the stairs with it before I could intercept her.
Poppa, pleaded Nero, hasting to intercept her flight, forgive me.
Unless we can intercept the vessel that bears him across the Solent.
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