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  • Simultaneously, the car's touch-screen rear monitor (not to be confused with the instrument panel) projected close-circuit images of the pedestrians I was preparing to run over.

    Driving Like the Other Half Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

  • You can watch from close-circuit cameras and don't even need to look at the machines to know that their muscle tension has gone slack, their chin droops forward like ventriloquist dummies waiting for a line.

    Intersomnolence Wendy Wimmer 2011

  • You can watch from close-circuit cameras and don't even need to look at the machines to know that their muscle tension has gone slack, their chin droops forward like ventriloquist dummies waiting for a line.

    Intersomnolence Wendy Wimmer 2011

  • They are screening close-circuit television footage that monitor transportation systems and other public spaces.

    Beleaguered U.K. Police Step Up Response Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

  • Dizon allegedly later pawned some of the possessions taken from Bennun, including a laptop and a cell phone, Bautista said, adding investigators have secured pawnshop records and close-circuit television camera footage showing him with the stolen objects in the shop.

    Mark Dizon, Suspected Of Killing 9, Nabbed Using Facebook 2010

  • The elimination of torture cultures and sub-institutions can only be achieved if torture is unlawful, the community and the political and organisational leadership are strongly opposed to it, police officers and other relevant institutional actors are appropriately educated and trained, and stringent accountability mechanisms, e.g. video-recording of interviews, close-circuit TV cameras in cells, external oversight bodies, are put in place.

    The Spirit Upwelling Linda Boroff 2009

  • Ms. Ramey helped to create SQTV, a close-circuit network that still exists at the prison.

    TV's 'Woman on the Beat' Broke Newsroom Barriers 2009

  • That's because with the exception of Fox (which screened an early cut of J.J. Abrams 'Fringe on close-circuit here at the Hilton and sent out the new sitcom Do Not Disturb just before the start of the tour) the other broadcasters (ABC, NBC and The CW) have yet to provide finished pilots of their new series to the press.

    "CSI" Shockers! CBS' Nina Tassler Reveals Details at TCA -- Ed Martin Live from TCA 2008

  • That's because with the exception of Fox (which screened an early cut of J.J. Abrams 'Fringe on close-circuit here at the Hilton and sent out the new sitcom Do Not Disturb just before the start of the tour) the other broadcasters (ABC, NBC and The CW) have yet to provide finished pilots of their new series to the press.

    "CSI" Shockers! CBS' Nina Tassler Reveals Details at TCA -- Ed Martin Live from TCA 2008

  • You're looking at these pictures right now, new video from the attacks in Mumbai captured by close-circuit TV at a train station.

    CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2008 2008

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