1. Anticipating the attacks, de Lattre had strengthened the Red River valley with hundreds of cement blockhouses and new airfields. 2. Lee had anticipated this attack, and had told the brigade commanders that the center must stand firm at all costs. 3. He skidded hard in the opposite direction anticipating attack, but none came. 4. Anticipating the attacks, Palestinian police also abandoned roadblocks, at least in Ramallah, and no men in uniform were evident in the city Monday. 5. But the Palestinians anticipated retaliatory attacks, and they cleared out predictable target sites, and schools and offices closed early. 6. In fact the administration has been anticipating this attack for weeks. 7. In the aftermath, the Bush administration is fending off critics who suggest that the nation could have anticipated the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 8. No one, of course, anticipated the attack by terrorists. 9. Such attacks are anticipated in a race in which politicians often are shameless in their inflated rhetoric and their devious drive to win. 10. The failure of the CIA and other spy agencies to anticipate the attacks on New York and Washington was not the fault of a single institution. |