Example sentences for: sleeper

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  • Clarke mentioned to National Security Advisor Rice at least twice that al Qaeda sleeper cells were likely in the United States.

  • For Clarke's concern about an al Qaeda presence in the United States, see NSC briefing materials, TNT to Rice, counterterrorism briefing for Bush/Cheney transition team, undated, which noted that al Qaeda had "sleeper cells" in more than 40 countries, including the United States; NSC memo, "Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist Networks of al Qida: Status and Prospects," undated (appears to be Dec. 29, 2000), attached to NSC memo, Clarke to Rice, Jan.

  • The president's "cradle to grave" proposals (Pat Buchanan, The McLaughlin Group ) were likely to paralyze the Republicans, because nobody wants to go on record as being against child care (Paul Gigot, NewsHour ). Unless the Republicans slip out of the sleeper hold, Clinton's two initiatives will serve as "wedge issues" to separate the two parties in the minds of voters for the 1998 election (Tony Blankley, Late Edition ).

  • In no time, Sarah orders him to put her up in a $1,700-a-night suite on a high floor of the Four Seasons (she's an ultrasensitive sleeper), provide a limousine, and be ready to work at whatever hour she feels the urge to inspire him.

  • poolside at the Pearl Continental Hotel in downtown Rawalpindi, running around Gilgit in disputed Kashmir Province and fending off aggressive beggars on the overnight sleeper train to Karachi.


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