(v. i.) To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.
(v. i.) To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey.
(v. t.) To attend to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Clinical measurements of the loudness discomfort level (LDL) are generally performed while the subject listens to a particular stimulus presented from an audiometer through headphones (AUD-HP).
(3) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(4) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
(5) Families believed that physicians would not listen (13% of sample), would not talk openly (32%), attempted to mislead them (48%), or did not warn about long-term neurodevelopmental problems (70%).
(6) The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of listening experience on the perception of intraphonemic differences in the absence of specific training with the synthetic speech sounds being tested.
(7) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
(8) You’d know that if you listened to them and saw their presence as more than tokenism.
(9) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
(10) Working in clinical areas and listening to staff and patients, hearing about possible improvements and seeing benefits when you make the service changes.
(11) The sergeant, listening in, was perplexed: "We obviously have, because I can hear you on the radio.
(12) In addition, they were tested with dichotic listening for correct reports of consonant-vowel syllables.
(13) It has me as a listener and I am keen as well on sciences, arts, geography, history and politics, and I belong to two campaigns in Brighton and Chichester against privatisation of the NHS, and with some successes.
(14) 6. prepared by Northwestern University, were then derived, concurrently with functions of the Auditec version, using (1) a group of listeners with normal hearing; and (2) a group with sensorineural hearing loss.
(15) By nightfall, Admiralty had filled up with hundreds of protesters, many listening to music performances and speeches by protest leaders.
(16) It was listening to the then state legislator Obama at the 2004 Democratic convention in Boston when he spoke about America not being red or blue but a place where "you don't have to be rich in order to fulfil your potential".
(17) The first paper of this series (Picheny, Durlach, & Braida, 1985) presented evidence that there are substantial intelligibility differences for hearing-impaired listeners between nonsense sentences spoken in a conversational manner and spoken with the effort to produce clear speech.
(18) Wait, listen, observe the dynamic of the group and gradually you will be able to see how you fit in and how you can bring something different and valuable to that meeting.
(19) But DAB radio, the likely broadcast replacement for analogue AM and FM in the digital-only age, saw its share of listening drop, to 15.3% from 15.8% in the second quarter of 2010.
(20) They are learning that education isn’t stimulating and nobody is listening to their needs.
Wiretap
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It is hence impossible to wiretap, intercept or crack the information transmitted through it,” Xinhua reported after Tuesday’s launch.
(2) In response to a question from the host, Jake Tapper, about allegations that the Russian ambassador “is a spy”, Rubio said: “It is not a mystery to anyone that virtually every embassy in Washington DC has some intelligence component associated with it.” Fact check: what did Trump's tweets about Obama's 'wiretaps' mean?
(3) November 6, 2012 And then there was that little matter earlier this month in which Trump sparked a firestorm by claiming on Twitter, without producing any evidence, that President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
(4) British intelligence officials have denied an allegation that the UK helped former president Barack Obama “wiretap” Donald Trump during the 2016 election.
(5) Brennan's testimony theoretically represents a rare chance to learn more about drone killing, warrantless wiretapping, torture, rendition, foreign meddling and other odd cloak-and-daggery.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump jokes about wiretapping at Angela Merkel press conference “But no funds will be paid to the US.
(7) Anyone who is in the intelligence community would understand what Clapper said as there being no wiretap targeting of Trump or his campaign,” Todd Hinnen, a former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the justice department, said.
(8) I’m reminded of the semi-faux fury we heard from Google’s executive chairman , Eric Schmidt, over the NSA’s literal wiretapping of its internal data systems.
(9) Trump’s wiretap paranoia and the reality of modern surveillance Read more Trump held his first cabinet meeting on Monday, with negotiations over the repeal and replacement of Obama’s Affordable Care Act still dominating the political agenda and a budget proposal expected to be unveiled on Thursday .
(10) But tellingly, the questioning kept circling back to the wiretapping claim, suggesting that it could prove a vulnerable spot for the White House.
(11) Baltasar Garzón, 56, was convicted on 9 February by the supreme court of ordering illegal wiretaps.
(12) The governor of Sicily has suspended himself from public office after claims that he failed to counter a friend’s suggestion that the daughter of one of Italy’s most celebrated anti-mafia heroes – a judge who was killed in 1992 – be “done away with just like her father” in a wiretapped telephone conversation two years ago.
(13) There is no evidence to support that claim” of Obama ordering Trump to be wiretapped, a US official told the Guardian over the weekend.
(14) Besides being an Iraq war architect and torture advocate, Rice notoriously defended George W Bush's outright illegal NSA warrantless wiretapping program when it first was revealed in 2005.
(15) In the last six months of 2012, 68% of those requests were made under ECPA subpoenas which do not require a court order, unlike most wiretaps or requests to search properties.
(16) In Thursday's verdict, the court ruled that Garzón acted unlawfully in ordering prison wiretaps of detainees talking to their lawyers, the court said, adding that his actions "these days are only found in totalitarian regimes".
(17) On Saturday, it was disclosed by US officials that counterparts in Russia had turned over information they had on 26-year-old Tamerlan and his mother, including wiretapped telephone calls between the two.
(18) On Monday, Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House oversight and government reform committee, told CBS: “Thus far, I have not seen anything directly that would support what the president has said.” Trump 'wiretap': White House wants investigation but Clapper denies order Read more Chaffetz added that it would take time for a House intelligence panel investigating the alleged Russia links to get to the bottom of the wiretapping allegation and that his committee would play a supporting role in this.
(19) Garzón was stung by the court's affirmation that he had behaved as if working for a totalitarian regime, fishing indiscriminately for evidence and trampling on defendants' rights by wiretapping jail conversations with defence lawyers.
(20) It is inconceivable that those legal requirements could be met in the circumstances described.” Although Clapper denied that Trump or his campaign had been wiretapped, it has been reported that some Trump associates, and former campaign members, had been under investigation for their contacts with Moscow.