(1) Reconnoitering this field leads to the conclusion that the preliminary training of the veterinarian predisposes him to the ability to develop into a research worker and specialist in one of the many departments making up this field of investigation.
(2) But he said there was evidence of Russian “reconnoitering, intrusion on certain voter rolls” in unnamed American states.
Reconnoitre
Definition:
(v. t.) To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.
(v. t.) To recognize.
Example Sentences:
(1) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(2) When Hussain gave him a camera and told Cromitie to reconnoitre targets, he promptly sold it.
(3) The language doesn’t exist to describe this crime, and that consigns us to imperfect analogies: it is an invasion beyond privacy and beyond sex, into a person’s destiny, holding them hostage forever to the love of a child conceived as the byproduct of state reconnoitre.
(4) For many months after Mubanga was seized in Zambia with the help of British intelligence and sent to Guantánamo, the American authorities maintained that he was a dangerous 'enemy combatant', an undercover al-Qaeda operative who had travelled from Afghanistan on a false passport and appeared to be on a mission to reconnoitre Jewish organisations in New York.
(5) One was a list of Jewish organisations in New York, which, he suggested, Mubanga had been ordered to reconnoitre on behalf of al-Qaeda.