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President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.
Explanation:
Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible "dirty numbers" linked to Al Qaeda, the officials said.
Sheila's audacity showed how willing she was to take risks
I think you are right. The form verbs take to express a hypothetical or possible situation.
<span>The dialogue in "Hills Like White Elephants" focuses on the possibility of an abortion.
A man is talking to his girlfriend about her having a surgery, and although it is never directly stated, it is implied the surgery is actually an abortion. He wants her to have it, and she doesn't, and they are having an argument without even listening to each other - it is futile given that she won't do it, and he wants her to.
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