What is "clearances"

Usage examples of "clearances".

Her consults did pose the potential for danger, but typically she was in and out of the operation quickly, and only those with the highest security clearances ever knew she had been involved.

And Dallas, an ex-SEAL accustomed to top security clearances and need-to-know, had kept the information to himself, not even telling her, his wife.

I have asked the Pentagon and the CIA to send us a list of names of people with the right clearances so that we can pick one and get them detailed over here.

Even though he had the top security clearances, he could still get in trouble for having these files.

The Clearances emptied these high lands of some fifteen thousand people, most of them crofters, or tenant farmers, whose ancestors had lived here for generations.

The Clearances are in the news again, because de Savary has aspirations to hold a tournament at The Carnegie Club and wants to build a second course on the property.

But the best way to learn about the Clearances was to explore the empty lands, so we decided to drive out to the western Highlands, a stark and frequently desolate landscape, rugged in the forbidding way that parts of Atlantic Canada are.

This inland expanse of deserted straths, forsaken glens, and desolate lochs is where the impact of the Highland Clearances is most readily apparent.

Some of the same political and economic causes were at work with both the Clearances and the Famine.

The pre-Clearance Highlands supported a stable if never large population, although it was growing by 1800, and revisionist historians argue that, if the Clearances had not occurred, the land could never have supported the increased numbers.

In tracing the origin of the Clearances, historians place a great deal of emphasis on the final English defeat of the Jacobite rebellions in 1746.

The most notorious landlord of the Clearances stands high above us on Ben Bhraggie, leading us back, as it were, to Dornoch.

A center to educate people about the Clearances is also being planned.

I mention that I had no idea when I first arrived in Dornoch that the Clearances were such a vital subject in the Highlands.