Word: apprehending
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...realized, with fear and horror, what I had done. Without anyone's permission, I had left the blemish of my finger-print on the car of a great and powerful man. I stood next to the car for half a minute frozen, waiting for the Secret Service agents to apprehend...
...assume that punishment for murderers in Rwanda would deter all others. Nuremberg, after all, did little to end atrocities in the post-war era. But justice in Rwanda would be a step toward making international law binding. The other ongoing tribunal, in Bosnia, is hampered by the inability to apprehend suspects and the opposition of UN negotiators, who want to avoid angering the Bosnian Serbs. Rwanda is the best chance...
Seven months later Clinton stunned some of the victims' families when he told them during an Oval Office meeting that he was surprised the soldiers were trying to apprehend warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. By then, he said, the U.S. was supposed to be emphasizing diplomacy over confrontation. "When the President has troops in combat, that must be his No. 1 priority, and he must be fully aware of what they're doing," Larry Joyce, whose son died in the fire fight, told TIME recently...
Kotowski said he chased Angier down Nevada Ave, trying to apprehend him. Angier then climbed an eight-foot chain link fence, in an attempt to escape, Kotowsky added...
...Clinton Administration reversed course in Somalia, saying it now seeks a political solution to the problems there. Shifting to what he called a "stand-down position" and signaling that the U.S. would no longer try to apprehend Mohammed Farrah Aidid, President Clinton ordered the withdrawal of 750 U.S. Army Rangers from Mogadishu...