Example sentences for: watchlist

How can you use “watchlist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By 1998, 97 suspected terrorists had been denied admission at U.S. ports of entry because of the watchlist.

  • One provision from PDD-62 not updated and reiterated in 2000 was a directive to CIA to ensure that names (and aliases) of terrorists were collected and disseminated to State, INS, and the FBI in a timely way, so that the border agencies could place them on a watchlist and the FBI could identify them in the United States.

  • In 1993, Congress passed legislation allowing State to retain visa-processing fees for border security; those fees were then used by the department to fully automate the terrorist watchlist.

  • Finally, on the watchlist, officials told us that large lists were difficult to implement, particularly when they weren't accompanied by numeric data such as date of birth that would enable an air carrier to distinguish the terrorist from others around the world who had his or her name.

  • False identities are used by terrorists to avoid being detected on a watchlist.


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