What is "penetrations"

Usage examples of "penetrations".

One of his penetrations of Ansar al-Islam reported that the group was casing the region for Americans who could be ambushed on the roads.

He had some other penetrations of the tribal networks inside Iraq, maybe two dozen in all if the ROCKSTAR network were included.

He counted about a dozen penetrations of the security apparatus and another dozen of the Republican Guard and regular army, again if the ROCKSTARS were counted.

A few of the more reliably reported incidents turned out to be penetrations of U.

Such overflights are a common means of testing a potential adversary's readiness, and the United States had more than its fair share of penetrations, and feints at penetration, of Soviet air space.

The routine procedure had been for the Air Force to deny that any of its aircraft were in the vicinity of the UFO sighting, and to volunteer nothing about unauthorized penetrations, thus solidifying public mystification.

Through a window he saw a glint of copper rising in a graceful arc from one of many antenna penetrations in the fuselage to a great pseudotree which supported, and finally became, the atmospheric canopy a kilometer overhead.

Its principal features were a pair of rage-maddened eyes, two nostril penetrations, and a slash of a mouth filled with nasty-looking masticators.

The stumbling block, and it was more of a hard rock, was the CIA’s inability to spell out the covert operation in terms of one Jason Bourne, for only Alexander Conklin could release the name and he refused to do so, knowing that the Jackal’s penetrations in Paris extended to just about everywhere but the kitchens of the Tour d’Argent.

There were no penetrations of the steel, only thuds and the screaming whistles of ricochets .

What we think we know is pieced together from intelligence sources and penetrations of their computer networks.

They are, unfortunately, a good deal better at detecting, preventing, and confusing such penetrations than they were even a few years ago.

Some of the other penetrations had made progress, but even as she looked tiny figures surged out of the headquarters bunkers and struck the extending flank.

Individual strongpoints held stubbornly, channeling the Syrian penetrations into rocky defiles, where they could be pinched off and smashed by roving bands of Israeli armor which lay in wait behind the Purple Line.