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  • When it decided it was time, it deployed its wings, rose in the air with a minute clattering, hovered above the lifeboat momentarily, as if making sure no one had been left behind, and then veered overboard to its death.†   (source)
  • We've already deployed.†   (source)
  • Commander Lewis probably ordered them deployed during the evac.†   (source)
  • Just yesterday, the duke presented a plan: they would deploy more legions, and keep Nehemia here to discourage any retaliation from the rebels.†   (source)
  • "Deployment will be an eight-point hem," the commander said.†   (source)
  • Then you had best retreat back to Moat Cailin, deploy to meet Lord Tywin in battle ...or grow wings.†   (source)
  • Two squads will be deployed as perimeter patrols to protect this base.†   (source)
  • The lighthearted ironies she might have deployed among her friends deserted her in his presence, and she heard her own voice become thin when she attempted some docile contradiction.†   (source)
  • Government troops were deployed in Mattru Jong, and they erected checkpoints at the wharf and other strategic locations all over town.†   (source)
  • No, sir, there wasn't any time to deploy them.†   (source)
  • Cunningly deployed lighting and mirrors created the illusion of standing in a conservatory overlooking a wide stretch of exquisitely manicured garden.†   (source)
  • These terrorists "might even hope that National Guard and other units are less able and well-equipped to respond ...because of deployments overseas."†   (source)
  • They had to make Ender deploy his forces blind.†   (source)
  • In better days, I used to call it the talk-show laugh: It was the quick downward glance, the scratching of a corner of the mouth with a casual thumb, the inhaled chuckle that a charming movie star always deploys right before telling a killer story.†   (source)
  • The resolve and rapid-deployment capabilities of FORCE were properly tested where no real harm was done to Hegemony interests.†   (source)
  • Usually, these depots take the form of a table, near the door closest to the facility, on which the BTDUs are stacked or otherwise deployed, with a bowl or some other receptacle in which participants may place their contributions, and typically with a sign or other attention-getting device (such as a stuffed animal or cartoon) requesting donations.†   (source)
  • In the year after the court decision—on January 24, 1973—that forced the city to deploy 1,000 buses to integrate the public schools, the parents of white children yanked more than 7,000 children out of those schools.†   (source)
  • It seemed like every time I was coming back from a combat deployment, he was coming in to relieve me.†   (source)
  • As soon as we deployed, he changed tactics.†   (source)
  • I took my first deployment with SEAL Team Two to Machrihanish, Scotland—land of my mother's ancestors.†   (source)
  • Usually it came to no more than this: a deployment of troops, twenty-seven soldiers leaning, twenty-seven tiny olive-green rifles aiming, poised on the brink of battle.†   (source)
  • That's more or less how we operate in overseas deployment against terrorists today.†   (source)
  • Rather, every flower, shrub, and tree was to be deployed with an eye to how each would act upon the imagination.†   (source)
  • We don't, and we deploy our boomers a lot further forward than they do.†   (source)
  • Even soldiers from ECOMOG—a regional peacekeeping force deployed to separate the warring factions—joined in the looting.†   (source)
  • Fedaykin guards deployed through the depression waited for Muad'Dib's command to attack.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the sailors deployed long poles that they used to propel theRed Boar into ever deeper water, as did the crews of theMerrybell andEdeline.†   (source)
  • For future analysis, a team of JFCOM specialists monitored and recorded every conversation, and a computer kept track of every bullet fired and missile launched and tank deployed.†   (source)
  • The pastime of whole armies—trench speculation, battlefield dreams, men figuring how, if suddenly free, they would deploy the rest of their lives.†   (source)
  • The activation code will enable the memory serum weapon, and another button will deploy it instantly.†   (source)
  • He was in his room studying the deployment of plastic chessmen.†   (source)
  • On the second day of the massive nuking-Wednesday—the Army caravan flowed with commuter traffic to Reston and deployed behind the monkey house.†   (source)
  • According to the Reagan administration, the Streamlined Inspection System for Cattle would help the USDA shrink its budget and deploy its manpower more efficiently.†   (source)
  • He asserted that we planned to deploy thousands of trained guerrilla units throughout the country, and these units were to spearhead an uprising that would be followed by an armed invasion by military units of a foreign power.†   (source)
  • Almost invariably around the globe, countries and companies that have deployed women according to their talents have prospered.†   (source)
  • Deploying their men, stationing them at strategic points.†   (source)
  • Plus I was always worried when he deployed.†   (source)
  • The air bag deployed, spreading white dust and the acrid scent of gunpowder throughout the car.†   (source)
  • We'll make it a no-notice deployment.†   (source)
  • Some of his friends and allies continued to think he should go there far less often, and spend most of his time deploying medical troops on worldwide campaigns.†   (source)
  • WASHINGTON RETURNED AGAIN to Brooklyn early the following day, August 26, to confer still again with his commanders and appraise the defenses and deployment of troops.†   (source)
  • And after more than a decade of deploying an army of road workers, the newly christened "Friendship Highway" was declared complete in 1978, sticking its thumb squarely in India's eye.†   (source)
  • They walked together until they hit the tape (beach) and then deployed.†   (source)
  • Still, they got 5 points for deploying the tape measure.†   (source)
  • Search parties were deployed, but the trail had already gone cold.†   (source)
  • It's only a six-month deployment.†   (source)
  • I'd used it in my last deployment.†   (source)
  • The bold numbers on the mailbox read 1300, which was the address Celine and Bethany had moved to after his last deployment.†   (source)
  • 1134/443/KK/Y-U/9 INFORMATION STATUS TRANSMIT TO ALL STATIONS CLASSIFICATION TOP SECRET REQUEST FOR DIRECTIVE 7-IS RECEIVED TODAY BY EXEC AND NSC-COBRA ORIGIN VANDENBERG/WILDFIRE CORROBORATION NASA/AMC AUTHORITY PRIMARY MANCHEK, ARTHUR, MAJOR USA IN CLOSED SESSION THIS DIRECTIVE HAS NOT BEEN ACTED UPON FINAL DECISION HAS BEEN POSTPONED TWENTY-FOUR TO FORTY-EIGHT HOURS RECONSIDERATION AT THAT TIME ALTERNATIVE TROOP DEPLOYMENT ACCORDING TO DIRECTIVE 7-11 NOW IN EFFECT NO NOTIFICATION END MESSAGE TRANSMIT ALL STATIONS CLASSIFICATION TOP SECRET END TRANSMISSION The team stared at the message in disbelief.†   (source)
  • They may have been descended from the Chinese explorers that the First Emperor of Ch'in (221-210 B.C.) had deployed to find longevity medicine.†   (source)
  • I want you to deploy them at the bottom of the hill, a long way from the main hall so they can deal with any situation long before the sound carries to the house.†   (source)
  • She smiled and listened carefully as he explained how he had deployed his army in the best possible way to aid hers in case of an attack by Eddis.†   (source)
  • Shotgun as well, but different in the way it had been deployed.†   (source)
  • Brumby's last squad needed to deploy to the left flank; Cunha's leading squad needed to spread from dead ahead to left oblique; the other four squads must fan out in between.†   (source)
  • He'd have platoons of guys like Pete Ichibata deployed about the globe, each too brilliant for his own good, whose primary modes were sorrow and parody.†   (source)
  • We're deployed on the western bank of the Isonzo, from the cliffs to a point about ten kilometers south of where we are now.†   (source)
  • Maybe the oxygen masks dropped from overhead, or maybe damage to the craft had resulted in a systems failure, with the consequence that masks had not been deployed at every seat.†   (source)
  • At the time of this writing, her husband, David, was serving in the Army National Guard on a fourteen-month deployment to Iraq.†   (source)
  • As they forged their way farther into the center of the city, the crowd thickened: more Nephilim, more Endarkened, more faerie warriors—though the faeries moved sluggishly, painfully, many of them weakened by contact with the iron, steel, rowan wood, and salt that had been liberally deployed around the city as protection against them.†   (source)
  • "I saw today that D.C. deploys three times as many police as the national average," Sampson was telling me.†   (source)
  • After that he deployed the brigades.†   (source)
  • After several calls, she emailed me the paperwork that proved she had been your legal guardian during your father's deployments.†   (source)
  • The State usurpers will see their preparation and rapidly deploy the military against the opposition.†   (source)
  • Especially forward deployed units.†   (source)
  • By moving Jalal off her plate, she would have additional resources to deploy against her primary target, the Russians.†   (source)
  • The Western alliance responded by committing itself to a counter-deployment unless the Soviets agreed to negotiate a better solution; namely, the elimination of such weapons on both sides.†   (source)
  • Jinny Love, with a persistence they had not dreamed of, deployed the towel.†   (source)
  • Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace.†   (source)
  • They deployed strategically while the hustle and the bustle increased and the bells sounded and voices far off called: "Who's his doctor?†   (source)
  • The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.   (source)
    deployed = used
  • In that moment Ender learned for the first time what his own fleet would consist of and how the enemy fleet was deployed.†   (source)
    deployed = placed or activated
  • AFTER THE RIOTS the talk on the television was of a major operation, one city at a time, starting in London, to reclaim Britain for Britain, and it was reported that the army was being deployed, and the police as well, and those who had once served in the army and the police, and volunteers who had received a weeklong course of training.†   (source)
  • Ender pointed all around the door, to tell them that Salamander Army was undoubtedly deployed against the wall all around the door, where they couldn't be seen but could easily flash anyone who came out.†   (source)
  • Miraculously, the air bags did not deploy.†   (source)
  • Luma decided it was time to deploy her secret weapon.†   (source)
  • As IT CAME UP TO THE TIME TO DEPLOY, OUR relationship became more distant.†   (source)
  • Multiple secret networks had been taken over, from the NSA to forward-deployed military units.†   (source)
  • Nugget's being assigned to another training squad after we deploy.†   (source)
  • Okay, if we deploy like this, she is the threat.†   (source)
  • It deployed smoke inspectors to enforce a new antismoke ordinance.†   (source)
  • Once deployed, rafts inflated automatically.†   (source)
  • The Pogy, which had never entered port, would complete her deployment without her corpsman aboard.†   (source)
  • The other two will be deployed into enemy territory.†   (source)
  • Once deployed, he graduated to mayonnaise jars and ketchup bottles.†   (source)
  • It was about three weeks before our daughter was due and days before I was supposed to deploy.†   (source)
  • Strong's B-24 was nearly cut in two, and the mine's parachute deployed, dragging the plane down.†   (source)
  • How we conduct our search will depend on how Ivan deploys.†   (source)
  • The better Ender knew them, the faster he could deploy them, the better he could use them.†   (source)
  • UNTIL THAT POINT, I HAD SPENT AN UNEVENTFUL, even boring fourth deployment in Iraq.†   (source)
  • Okay, by Saturday I'll have five hundred tactical fighters deployed from Dover to Loring.†   (source)
  • If I had taken it, I would have played it the rest of the deployment.†   (source)
  • For that reason we deployed our fleet at all of the American ports.†   (source)
  • MAYBE IT WAS A TOUCH OF WHAT SHE'D GONE through every moment of my deployment.†   (source)
  • THAT ACTION TURNED OUT TO BE OUR LAST significant encounter during that deployment.†   (source)
  • He flipped the switch, which deployed half a dozen high-intensity magnesium parachute flares.†   (source)
  • Before we deployed, Taya and I chose to get married.†   (source)
  • On deployments, I used a Leica range finder to determine how far I was from a target.†   (source)
  • On the deployments that followed, I had separate body armor with a separate Rhodesian rig.†   (source)
  • I FINISHED THAT DEPLOYMENT WITH A SUBSTANTIAL number of confirmed sniper kills.†   (source)
  • That usually doesn't happen until well into their first deployment, if then.†   (source)
  • The Team promised that I'd have a break after this deployment.†   (source)
  • "You take your superhero cape off every time you come home from deployment," Taya used to joke.†   (source)
  • We thought we would be shut down, even though our deployment still had a couple of months to run.†   (source)
  • Heavy combat deployments were combined with extensive training workups that kept him away from home.†   (source)
  • Our deployment had been extended so that we could take part in the beginning of the war.†   (source)
  • I guess I had had an undercurrent of anger that whole deployment.†   (source)
  • The stress of the deployment had started to get to me well before that phone call in September 2006.†   (source)
  • During the first deployment, my SEAL body armor had the MOLLE system attached to it.†   (source)
  • I had a hard time with the kids after Chris deployed.†   (source)
  • IN THE END, I WAS ALL RIGHT WITH BEING SCHEDuled for another deployment.†   (source)
  • But the bigger difference, at least at first, had to do with tactics and the way they were deployed.†   (source)
  • For me, the process began during my second deployment when I was working on Haifa Street.†   (source)
  • WITH OUR DEPLOYMENT RAPIDLY APPROACHING, OUR platoon was beefed up.†   (source)
  • I MADE A FEW OTHER CALLS HOME DURING LULLS IN battles during my deployments.†   (source)
  • The usual SEAL deployment at the time was six months.†   (source)
  • Four long combat deployments had taken their toll.†   (source)
  • Overseas, on deployment, in the war, I seemed invincible.†   (source)
  • They were comfortable and held up to the deployment.†   (source)
  • I was wondering why when the chute deployed.†   (source)
  • I HAD TAKEN THE CHIEF'S EXAM BACK IN THE STATES before we deployed.†   (source)
  • WE HAD A GOOD TEAM THAT DEPLOYMENT, STARTING at the top.†   (source)
  • So after the first two deployments, I went to a hip holster.†   (source)
  • While he was deployed, he wrote letters to be delivered to the kids and me if he died.†   (source)
  • I hadn't heard from him, and I thought that he had deployed to Iraq.†   (source)
  • When he came back after this deployment, I felt almost shy.†   (source)
  • Our comms guy suggested it before the deployment.†   (source)
  • I adjusted my gear slightly from deployment to deployment.†   (source)
  • And not every SEAL does multiple back-to-back wartime deployments, either.†   (source)
  • WHILE WE WERE TRAINING UP FOR OUR NEXT Deployment, the platoon got a group of new guys.†   (source)
  • On my first two deployments, I had a drop-leg holster.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, we were already winding down our deployment.†   (source)
  • AFTER every deployment, something would happen to me, usually during training.†   (source)
  • I felt I'd been cheated on my last deployment.†   (source)
  • These deployments were starting to get to him.†   (source)
  • Deploy a thousand soldiers to find what you need.†   (source)
  • The amount of resources deployed against them was daunting indeed.†   (source)
  • Sentries were deployed in concentric circles around Barn 43, even, reportedly, perching in trees.†   (source)
  • It'll take him a while to deploy," Buford said.†   (source)
  • Adam's task unit was scheduled to deploy to Iraq in April 2004.†   (source)
  • Air-sampling people will deploy along the cloud exposure swath.†   (source)
  • He thinks I'm here to steal the weapons that will reset the experiments, not deploy one of them.†   (source)
  • They've just decided not to deploy them on this case.†   (source)
  • Oscar was deployed to a remote outpost in the mountainous Paktia Province of eastern Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • It seemed so from the pattern of their deployments, which had remained static and defensive.†   (source)
  • Because he's been deployed for the last two years.†   (source)
  • Hours later, I deployed for Operation Desert Shield on Stephen's fourth birthday.†   (source)
  • For the previous year and a half, we'd been training to deploy.†   (source)
  • It's been obvious the army was mobilizing, but the Empire was nowhere near ready to deploy.†   (source)
  • They'd surely seen his parachute deploy.†   (source)
  • If we weren't deployed, we were training to deploy.†   (source)
  • If the memory serum virus is deployed, that memory will be erased from her mother's mind.†   (source)
  • Fire engines were deployed at a distance, ambulances and police vans at a greater distance.†   (source)
  • The MP5 rested against his chest and he could deploy it on target in seconds.†   (source)
  • Working with the F-117 meant no more lengthy overseas deployments.†   (source)
  • Fourteen days is enough time to ship arms, not deploy troops.†   (source)
  • We can force them to deploy, anyway, and that will take up time.†   (source)
  • "We're about to deploy," one of Adam's closest SEAL buddies said as we began our interview in June.†   (source)
  • And while you are the only one currently visible, there are other assets deployed on this.†   (source)
  • With a pop the chute deployed, streamed skyward, and snapped open.†   (source)
  • We deployed the whole division and went after them.†   (source)
  • There's a chance that we will still be in the city when a memory serum virus is deployed.†   (source)
  • Our squadron was getting ready to go on standby and then deploy to Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • I've been cheating on Becky, and I wanted to come clean to you before I deploy.†   (source)
  • That was where they were going for a six-month deployment.†   (source)
  • A few weeks before we were scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan, I printed out the packing list.†   (source)
  • I'm going to tell her after this deployment.†   (source)
  • Things had fallen into a pattern of deployments, training, and standby.†   (source)
  • Most free-fall fatalities result from improper chute deployment.†   (source)
  • If we weren't deployed, we were training to deploy.†   (source)
  • The chute was deploying behind and beside him.†   (source)
  • It was 2007 and I was on my sixth deployment.†   (source)
  • Adam's squadron deployed without him in mid-January.†   (source)
  • He had three deployments, and he was one of the few East Coast guys with any combat experience.†   (source)
  • We'd known he was going to Green Team after this deployment.†   (source)
  • You've been a SEAL for six years, and you don't know what you need on deployment?†   (source)
  • The last deployment, for the most part, had been slow.†   (source)
  • In spite of a hectic training and pre-deployment schedule, Adam had earned his bachelor's degree.†   (source)
  • For the last ten years, I had deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and to the Horn of Africa.†   (source)
  • You will be with us on our next op, and on our next deployment, and forever.†   (source)
  • I was in the middle of my SEAL Team Five deployment to Iraq when I finally got the news.†   (source)
  • After a deployment, most guys just wanted to hide out.†   (source)
  • After thirteen consecutive combat deployments, my war is over.†   (source)
  • On my earlier deployments, they stood and fought.†   (source)
  • I'd learned about DEVGRU during my first two deployments.†   (source)
  • In a previous deployment in Iraq, he had hunted down an Iraqi sniper who was shooting Marines.†   (source)
  • The average guy had at least a dozen deployments.†   (source)
  • We never found Bergdahl on that deployment, and as of the summer of 2012 he was still a prisoner.†   (source)
  • At that time, only West Coast teams had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.†   (source)
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