(n.) An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.
(v. t.) To convey or announce by telegraph.
Example Sentences:
(1) A senior shadow minister, who has not been named by the Telegraph in its exposé of MPs' expenses , was yesterday asked by county councillors not to campaign for next month's local elections.
(2) He would do the Telegraph crossword and, to be fair, would make intelligent conversation but he was a bit racist.
(3) Colleagues involved in similar Telegraph stings this week included Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, Ed Davey, a business minister, and Steve Webb, the pensions minister.
(4) In an article for the Daily Telegraph , Obama argued that Britain’s influence in the world was magnified by its membership of the EU.
(5) Royal Mail has pledged not to give Greene a large pay rise until after the current financial year, but the government's move follows Royal Mail chairman Donald Brydon telling the Daily Telegraph this week that Greene was the "lowest-paid chief executive in the FTSE 100" and that a rise in her pay was necessary to keep her.
(6) Britain’s troubled relationship with the EU has provided Boris Johnson with nothing but fun since he first made his name lampooning the federalist ambitions of Jacques Delors as the Daily Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent in the early 1990s .
(7) The Telegraph's secret taping of Cable and fellow Liberal Democrat ministers while pretending to be concerned constituents has raised eyebrows in some media quarters, but the newspaper has claimed a "clear public interest" defence for its actions.
(8) As well as telling the BBC to put password controls on the iPlayer, he will ask it to investigate a new offering in which people would pay for shows outside its traditional catch-up window, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph .
(9) Of course, everyone who is not drawn in by the spectacle of a 69-year-old man with hair that clearly telegraphs its owner’s level of self-delusion and casual relationship to the truth is horrified at Trump’s ascendency in the Republican party primary.
(10) I doubt the Daily Telegraph or David Cameron would support openly available "good porn", because I suspect they are just revolted by the whole idea of mixing sex and young people generally.
(11) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(12) In 1998, when Jeffrey Archer's son, James, and his trader friends, known as the Flaming Ferraris, took a stretch limo to their bank's Christmas party, the Sunday Telegraph could barely contain itself.
(13) "As a stylist Brown gets better and better: where once he was abysmal he is now just very poor," wrote Jake Kerridge in the Daily Telegraph .
(14) Major attended not a comprehensive – as the Telegraph had it, since corrected online – but Rutlish Grammar school.
(15) The report continues: "We have established that on 9 December, the circle of knowledge of an impending 'big story' by the same Telegraph team who broke [a major political story about British parliamentary expenses] extended to ... a former Telegraph employee now employed by News International ... [who] works closely at News International with the former Telegraph editor Will Lewis , both of whom have strong motivations to damage the Telegraph.
(16) Whilae a Lib Dem peer insisted that Cable would stay in his post, there were reports that Cable was called in to see the prime minister after Robert Peston of the BBC revealed in full Cable's comments, parts of which had not been published by the Telegraph.
(17) But then the Telegraph, down 17.3%, is a very long way from its pre-war position.
(18) The Greek government’s defiant stance came as the head of the Hellenic Chambers of Commerce , Constantine Michalos, said he did not believe Greece’s banks would be able to reopen next Tuesday without further funding, telling the Daily Telegraph he had been told cash reserves were down to €500m.
(19) The Telegraph published further details about Miller's expenses on Thursday .
(20) He became the Telegraph's youngest ever editor in 2006 and his appointment was followed by a raft of high-profile departures.
Telephony
Definition:
(n.) The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.
Example Sentences:
(1) While robust discussions are under way across the nation, in Congress, and at the White House, the question for this court is whether the government's bulk telephony metadata program is lawful.
(2) The bulk telephony metadata collection programme represents the government's counter-punch: connecting fragmented and fleeting communications to re-construct and eliminate al-Qaida's terror network.” The ACLU case against the NSA was dismissed primarily on the grounds that bulk collection was authorised under existing laws allowing “relevant” data collection to be authorised by secret US courts.
(3) The compression technique is a variation of the Consultive Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy Joint Photograph Experts Group compression that suppresses the blocking of the discrete cosine transform except in areas of very high contrast.
(4) Skype, meanwhile, will today announce that it has created a version of its popular free internet telephony service for Nokia's Symbian operating system, which is already used by more than 200m mobile phones worldwide.
(5) We recommend that legislation should be enacted that terminates the storage of bulk telephony meta-data by the government under section 215, and transitions as soon as reasonably possible to a system in which such meta-data is held instead either by private providers or by a private third party.
(6) Their current plans aim to do away with bulk collection of telephony metadata, and fix some of the loopholes associated with internet bulk collection.
(7) In the Patriot Act telephony metadata fiasco, legal formalism completely disabled both lawyers and judges: they were blessing a program that had become unrecognizable as consistent with constitutional protection of privacy – anyone who read Edward Snowden's documents soon knew that, and the legal world should have known it sooner.
(8) video-telephony for the inter-personal communication of hearing impaired people).
(9) Tang said that the concern was whether a price war might ensue that will impact the profitability of the "triple-play" market – customers who take a mix of products such as TV, broadband and telephony from one provider.
(10) If they do, we are in for a dramatic erosion of constitutional privacy protections in the coming years – all thanks to the same kind of old-school legal approach that allowed National Security Agency lawyers to justify mass telephony meta-data surveillance.
(11) As well as attracting new users, Sky has been trying to persuade its existing customers to expand the number of its products they take to include home telephony and broadband.
(12) We have already seen how technical legalism allowed well-intentioned NSA lawyers and conscientious judges of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to approve pervasive telephony surveillance because it involved "metadata".
(13) BT's move to challenge Sky on live football comes several years after the satellite broadcaster began moving into the telecoms giant's own core businesses of telephony and broadband.
(14) As people increasingly use services like Skype and other internet telephony services, Twitter and Facebook to communicate, advocates fear the bill is a land grab that would give US authorities unprecedented access to private information while removing a citizen's legal protection.
(15) Mulcaire also pleaded guilty to a further five counts of unlawful interception of communications under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) 2000, a more recent law brought in to recognise technological advances in telephony and the internet.
(16) "Email and mobile telephony have transformed the tenor of our lives … But we still only vote for the government once every four years or so," noted Bazalgette sadly.
(17) But Apple's products not only came to dominate their rivals, they redefined large areas of three entire industries: music, mobile telephony and personal computing.
(18) Some 2.3m customers now take a "triple play" package of TV, broadband and telephony.
(19) Thus, plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of showing that their privacy interests outweigh the government’s interest in collecting and analysing bulk telephony metadata and therefore the NSA’s bulk collection program is indeed an unreasonable search under the fourth amendment.
(20) It would be in my view a net positive if the telephony metadata aspect” were repealed, Medine said, but “215 is broader.