interrupter

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• If an interrupter approach fails, at least no one was directly hurt in the process, though there is a potential opportunity cost if the program crowds out more successful approaches.

• One widely publicized approach, violence interrupters, uses locally trusted community liaisons — typically people who previously were part of gangs or took part in criminal activities — to break up conflicts before they escalate into violence.

• She noted that her budget allocates increased funding for alternative justice programs such as violence interrupters.

• “It is necessary to have those violence interrupters in place,” McBroom said, adding that she “absolutely believes” they could have prevented whatever argument preceded Wednesday’s shooting.

• A very thin vacuum shutter forms a better interrupter of sound waves than a brick wall two or three feet in thickness.

• The interrupter must be Harry Wilbur; nobody else approached door-knockers in so athletic a spirit.

• The dual feature consists of the addition to the magneto of a battery interrupter.

• This relative timing can be easily adjusted by removing the interrupter and shifting the cam in the direction desired.

• This is accomplished by means of an "interrupter" that either vibrates rapidly or "snaps" once at the formation of each spark.