(1) You can also easily argue that a well-targeted attack is low-cost, readily deniable and saves lives by disrupting the enemy.
(2) Baltic states With large ethnic Russian populations in the Baltic states, Putin could test Nato through hybrid warfare: a mixture of cyber-attacks, propaganda and deniable interventions.
(3) The armed seizure of the Crimean parliament, the cynical insistence that Russian troops were not operating in Crimea when they clearly were, and the breakneck speed and flagrant violations involved in organising the Crimean referendum at short notice have been hidden behind a thread of plausible deniability stretched infinitesimally thin – and a knowing smirk on Putin's face.
(4) And there are times when it is useful to have a few hundred plausibly deniable troops, such as the Chechens who went into Ukraine last year to stiffen the Donbass separatists’ resistance to Kiev’s army.
(5) His hands stay clean and his deniability remains plausible.
(6) Hear clip 1 (54s) Clip 2: On alleged links bewteen Clifford Norris and John Davidson "Clifford Norris was never going to admit to anything; the minute he does that, the boys are in the dock ... and he'd be in the dock for perverting the course of justice, so he's covered that way, everything is deniable.
(7) If a person at the top can claim plausible deniability, as conservatives defending Christie seem to posit, even in the face of opposing common sense and evidence, then so can Clinton.
(8) The advantage of psychological operations was their deniability – important for a regime that wanted to maintain its international respectability.
(9) Right now, he must be laughing fit to burst – in a plausibly deniable way.
(10) Expect to see this play out in snide, deniable, but nonetheless bitter actions for months to come.
(11) The gap between what happened and what's said in political-speak is usually huge, but eminently deniable – so we must be grateful to Ed for admitting there was such a gap.
(12) Russia's spy agency is waging a massive undercover campaign of harassment against British and American diplomats, as well as other targets, using deniable "psychological" techniques developed by the KGB, a new book reveals.
(13) They certainly have the financial benefits of publishers, but the openness of their platforms also gives them plausible deniability of responsibility for what users publish should they need it.
(14) It adds that Russia was behind the hack of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails and released them to WikiLeaks for reasons of “plausible deniability”.
(15) As the Iraqi forces nominally in charge of the fight for Tikrit billed their operation as a dry run for the more difficult, upcoming fight for Mosul – Iraq’s second largest city – the new US air strikes on Tikrit raise questions about the anti-Isis war moving formally toward US-Iranian cooperation, with a fig leaf of Iraqi coordination for mutual deniability.
(16) Shapps, the deniable voice of his blander Downing Street master, isn't alone in his wish to cow BBC journalists.
(17) This complacent, half-hearted, bureaucratic reaction to Kremlin ruthlessness is accompanied in the west by affectation of surprise that the Russians don’t play by the rules of the game and have hit on a formidable new modern form of “hybrid warfare” that will take some getting used to – television, rapid rebuttal, paramilitaries, special units out of uniform, funnelling of funds, arms, and equipment to local proxies, plausible deniability of involvement, the cultivation and bribery of political Trojan horses within the enemy camp in Europe.
(18) "They then said it is better in those situations that the students, the tourists, know, but not too much … I started off saying written consents would be better but they said be careful because deniability is important."
(19) As Garry Kasparov, the Russian democracy campaigner and former chess world champion, put it brilliantly : “As with most disinformation, the goal is to create doubt and deniability, to cast evidence as personal or partisan, a post-truth world.” In the president’s conceptual scheme, what is opposed to “fake news” is “the truth”, but you can’t handle the truth.
(20) Stearns at one point asked her if the letter was an "empty threat" and asked her if she was about "plausible deniability".
Ghost
Definition:
(n.) The spirit; the soul of man.
(n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
(n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
(n.) A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
(v. i.) To die; to expire.
(v. t.) To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
Example Sentences:
(1) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(2) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
(3) Haemoglobin-free human erythrocyte ghosts that were prepared in the presence of EDTA and were then exposed to Ca2+ showed a substantial loss of phosphatidylinositol phosphate and phosphatidylinositol diphosphate, measured either chemically or by loss of 32P from the lipids of prelabelled membranes.
(4) Erythrocyte ghost membrane fluidity and phospholipid linoleate were significantly increased when higher levels of polyunsaturated fats were fed to healthy, free living, premenopausal women.
(5) The Triton ghosts contracted immediately upon addition of ATP.
(6) Resealed erythrocyte ghosts (carrier erythrocytes) are potential in vivo carriers for exogenous enzymes or drugs, but data on carrier erythrocyte survival and clearance rate in humans are not available.
(7) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
(8) The reaction sequence leading from EAC1-9 to ghosts can be summarized as follows: formula: (see text).
(9) To gain some understanding of the mechanism of cell fusion, cell ghosts prepared by freeze-thawing intact cells were incubated with intact cells.
(10) Nevertheless, the band 3 population solubilized by Triton X-100 from prelabeled ghosts was as well phosphorylated as the population of band 3 retained by the skeletons.
(11) In addition to these effects, ghosts exposed to MC540 and light underwent lipid peroxidation.
(12) These findings provide ultrastructural correlates of the electrophysiological changes produced by glycerol treatment of the closer muscle of the ghost crab (Papir, 1973), namely, interference with excitation-contraction (e-c) coupling.
(13) This ambiguity was resolved by using resealed ghosts, which are unable to incorporate oleic acid into phospholipids.
(14) The pulse microwave radiation has been shown to increase the fluorescence intensity of 2-toluidinonaphthanene-6-sulfonate (2,6-TNS) and 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate (1,8-ANS) built-in membranes of erythrocyte ghosts.
(15) Although China has so far refused to enable dialogue between our leaders, I sincerely hope that it will come forward, rather than keep invoking the ghost of militarism of seven decades ago, which no longer exists."
(16) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
(17) The FBI has just released a trove of documents , videos and pictures relating to its so-called Ghost Stories investigation into the activities of 10 Russian spies who the agency monitored for more than a decade.
(18) "A lot of the patients had moved and were genuine ghosts, and of course the practice shouldn't be paid for patients who don't exist, but a lot of the patients do exist and the patients who don't use the service subsidise those who do."
(19) The chemical asymmetry of the transporter was investigated by studying the effects of p-chloromercuriphenyl sulphonate (PCMBS) on uridine transport and high-affinity NBMPR binding in inside-out and right-side-out membrane vesicles, unsealed erythrocyte ghosts and intact cells.
(20) It was shown that when the ;ghosts' of the microsomal vesicles were used as a specific template extra cytochrome b(5) and NADH-specific flavoprotein were incorporated into them, but cytochrome P-450 and NADPH-specific flavoprotein were not incorporated into the membrane.