Peter Beard

I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.

American Artist

Billy Collins

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.

American Poet

Andrew Solomon

A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine.

Writer

Michael Winter

How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?

Canadian Writer

John Sarbanes

The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.

American Politician

Romeo Dallaire

Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.

Canadian Politician

Jefferson Mays

I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.

American Actor

Genevieve Gorder

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

American Designer

Robert M. Hutchins

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

American Educator

Sam Childers

I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.

American Activist

Often used when referring to surprise military tactics or historical battles.

Military Context

Emphasizes a sudden and unexpected attack from a concealed position.

Hidden Attack

The success of an ambush often relies on the element of surprise.

Surprise Element

Involves carefully choosing a location to catch the target off-guard.

Strategic Positioning

Setting up an ambush usually requires thought and preparation ahead of time.

Preparation Required

It involves catching someone off-guard with tough or unexpected questions.

Unexpected Questions

Journalists often use 'ambush' to describe surprising someone for a spontaneous interview.

Media Usage

It can be slang for catching someone off-guard in various social or work situations.

Modern Slang

 hard-hitting television. This is the closest we can get without being there ourselves. They ambushed us to draw out the rescues. Now they're gonna come for us for real. When you watch it, you literally feel that you are trapped in the situation with our characters.

First Look: The Long...

 the small but sharp differences between them help the cat judge the precise distance of its target. In fact, many other ambush hunters also have vertically elongated pupils— but mainly those whose eyes are located closer to the ground.

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 indicating that they have an ambush ahead of us at this time we'd like to know what is available at right now mind the air see if I can set up an immediate over here Jose the team's air support specialist sense a distress call to all

Inside the Green Berets:...

 - Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So they are ambush predators. They do scavenge. They're opportunistic. - So I would imagine that helps keep the ecosystem pretty healthy too. - Yeah, yeah. Definitely. - - Hard to sex from this angle,

Deep Sea Shark Stakeout...

 once locked onto a scent the ambush hunter settles into place and waits hanging motionless coiled in a characteristic S shape ready to pounce as a prey approaches the pit viper employs its most remarkable trait its

Deadly Venomous Viper PIPE...

 eye out and will viciously protect their territory or Pridelands from intruders females meanwhile typically hunt for the pride in a highly coordinated ambush where each lioness has her own position in the attack

When Lions Work...

 rattlesnakes belong to a group called pit vipers found all over the new world like all vipers they're ambush predators there's a lot we don't know about snakes that's one of the things that makes them dangerous

Top 5 Slithering Snake...

 to help protect a group of government officials, a group of Afghan government officials, who would be meeting with some local village elders. The column came under ambush, and was surrounded on three sides,

Why good leaders make...

 water's edge with any ambush predator like super croc this would have saved the dinosaur's life this dinosaur will not be so lucky

Crocs Eating Dinos PIPE...

 lifeless but it's home to a unique cast of mud dwellers the sea toad it is an ambush predator with an enormous mouth

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