Sentences with phrase «potential terrorists»

Helps educate and empower county residents to prepare for and respond to emergencies, including natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks.

Risk assessments used to identify potential terrorists aren't good enough, according to a new study.

The role of detection dogs is not just about finding bombs, but also about preventing potential terrorists.

«They do surveillance on criminals, which include potential terrorists, obviously,» the source said.

Critics, however, worried it could help train potential terrorists.

The government introduced the law ostensibly to allow the identification of potential terrorists, but there were fears that the DNA information could be abused.

But in the post-9 / 11 mind - set, nuclear plants loom as potential terrorist targets and as possible sources of raw material for nuclear weapons.

Cole, like Collins, said she is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and understands why many in the district want to own guns — although she said she would be open to tighter background checks aimed at keeping potential terrorists from owning weapons.

«This is a highly - trafficked, dense urban environment, and one that presents an unprecedented target for potential terrorist activity.

The Assembly last week passed Lancman's Non-Profit Homeland Security Preparedness Study Act, which would require the state Office of Homeland Security to solicit testimony from the nonprofit sector to determine how to best help them prepare for potential terrorist attacks.

Distributed generation facilities, like many community wind projects, provide a safeguard against potential terrorist threats to power plants.

Since Sept. 11, the reinsurance industry has balked at renewing terrorism coverage for major buildings, which are perceived as potential terrorist targets.

Today, Republican Assemblyman Ronald Castorina and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis argued this proposal could prevent federal law enforcement from tracking potential terrorists and criminals.

Katko aggressively questioned Larry Mizell, a representative of the Transportation Security Administration, who declined to say in public whether Cuban airports have explosive trace equipment, body scanners and document verification technology to help thwart potential terrorists.

Mr Cameron also detailed a major new contingency plan to deal with potential terrorist attacks, including up to 10,000 military personnel will be made available to support police in dealing with Paris - style attacks.

Hoffman has the ability to lose himself in his roles and as Günther Bachmann, the leader of covert German intelligence agency that monitors potential terrorist activity, he seems to pare down a performance to give us a man who betrays nothing of what he's thinking or feeling yet radiates a gentle warmth for his team (made up of superb German actors Nina Hoss, Daniel Brühl, and Franz Hartwig).

She had missed an invaluable chance last winter to compete in a World Cup downhill on Le Roc de Fer when the U.S. team was suddenly hustled out of Mèribel at the outset of the gulf war to protect the skiers from potential terrorist acts in Europe.

Senate Democrats including Sen. Charles E. Schumer were exultant last week after a 15 - hour filibuster yielded the seemingly impossible: A commitment to hold votes to expand gun - purchaser background checks and keep potential terrorists from buying guns.

Cuomo also outlined a plan to speed up the state's criminal justice process, and reform the bail system, and he proposed cashless tolling on the entire state Thruway, saying it's faster, and also more secure against potential terrorists.

«It's important to have a better understanding of what distinguishes potential terrorists from individuals who pose little or no risk of becoming terrorists, whether we're talking about Middle Eastern terrorist organizations or domestic terrorists in the United States,» says Sarah Desmarais, an associate professor of psychology at North Carolina State University and lead author of a paper on the work.

Even potential terrorists don't seem very interested.

«I received classified briefings about potential terrorist threats,» said Congressman Brian Higgins.

The refugee program was put on hold in June for four months as part of the larger travel ban ordered by the president with the aim of stopping potential terrorists.

ALL muslims are to be considered potential terrorists and as such need to feel the pressure of constant monitoring, be kept from key positions that could threaten national security and their mosques should be also infiltrated and monitored for subversive activities.

Governor Cuomo said: «With the busy holiday season in full swing, we are taking every precaution necessary to mitigate potential terrorist threats and keep people safe.

But other critics said Tuesday that neither sheriff's office nor the TSA has demonstrated that potential terrorists actually do that.

Jonathan Evans, head of domestic intelligence agency MI5 has said Britain faces an ever growing number of potential terrorists within our borders currently about 2,000

In addition to their use on the streets, fentanyl and carfentanyl — an even more toxic cousin — are potential terrorist weapons.

The US Department of Homeland Security, for example, is spending millions on a system to detect «malintent» in airline passengers to weed out potential terrorists.

Researchers at Binghamton have proposed a comprehensive new framework, the Networked Pattern Recognition (NEPAR) Framework, by defining the useful patterns of attacks to understand behaviors, to analyze patterns and connections in terrorist activity, to predict terrorists» future moves, and finally, to prevent and detect potential terrorist behaviors.

Experts at the Next Century Corporation will lead a joint research effort between the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, the Hume Center for National Security and Technology, and Draper Labs to create a system that can flag potential terrorist activities as quickly as a credit card company alerting consumers to suspicious spending behavior on their accounts.

Bond bungles the mission and M (Judi Dench) scolds and banishes him, but he rushes off on his own — without permission — hot on the trail of more potential terrorists.

Under orders to share intelligence with John O'Neill (Daniels) and the FBI, Schmidt opts instead to horde information under the misguided notion that the CIA is the only agency equipped to battle potential terrorist threats.

These two objectives have materialised into a referral mechanism with the participation of Europol to remove internet content; the creation of a prototype «database of hashes» developed by the internet industry to create a shared database to help identify potential terrorist content on social media and prevent its re-appearance on other platforms; and the establishment of a Civil Society Empowerment Programme, launched by the European Commission in March 2017.

Intelligence agencies do large - scale data mining with software to uncover and track potential terrorist plots.

Worked in conjunction with the FBI's JTTF on a variety of investigations concerning potential terrorist threats and was a member of the U.S. Attorney's Anti-Terrorism Task Force.

As a legislative stalemate gripped Albany this week, state Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D - Fresh Meadows) said he was especially concerned about the fate of four of his bills that he said would help Queens residents in the case of future hospital closings and area nonprofits to prepare for potential terrorist attacks.

«The commissioner is clear that any member of the public who does not associate with potential terrorists, serious criminals or individuals who are potentially involved in actions which could raise national security issues for the UK can be assured that none of the interception agencies which he inspects has the slightest interest in examining their emails, their phone or postal communications or their use of the internet.»

The Trump administration has argued that the ban is necessary to prevent potential terrorists from entering the country and is not discriminatory because the text of the order does not mention any particular religion.

Gunther must try to strike the right balance between doing the right thing and appeasing American spies all too vicious and eager in their hunt for potential terrorists.

Profiling the behaviour of air travellers to help identify potential terrorists has been news in the United States for several years now, but there has been little public discussion of the practice in Canada.

The home secretary John Reid has rejected calls from opposition politicians for a full inquiry into the intelligence surrounding the July 7th terrorist attacks after it emerged two of the bombers were monitored by MI5 but not identified as potential terrorists.

On numerous occassions, the watch list has failed to prevent attacks — Omar Mateen, who carried out a mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub, was previously on the list in 2013 but was removed after 10 months — or have failed at tracking potential terrorists, such as the failed 2009 underwear bomber.

The Pentagon office that proposed spying electronically on Americans to monitor potential terrorists has a new experiment.

I've seen first - hand the issues that our nation faces countering violent drug trafficking, organized crime, and potential terrorist acts.»

«There is almost no research on what distinguishes potential terrorists, study finds.»

After being approved by the Los Angeles City Council, sports industry competitor AEG hired former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to produce a report citing the proposed stadium as a safety risk and potential terrorist target due to its position on Los Angeles International Airport's flight path.