This was not the first time that a life hung on the strength of a cipher.
In Mary's case, Elizabeth's master code breaker Thomas Phelippes cracked the cipher and exposed her crime.
Cook has been such a cipher that some are surprised he could act so brutally.
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One year after generic versions are introduced, it will be a virtual cipher on AstraZeneca's balance sheet.
The King of Sentences, unmistakably, though withered like a shrunken-apple fetish of the noble cipher in the photograph.
The silent Justice is said to be an intellectual nonentity, a cipher for his similarly conservative colleague, Antonin Scalia.
With the advent of the first electrical cipher, the German Enigma machine in 1918, cryptanalysis changed its fundamental character.
Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.
Here are secrets and codes, an elaborate cipher-breaking machine, an obsession with graves and crazy adventures to find lost manuscripts.
On the side he invented a precursor to the Vigenere cipher, a code so strong it took three centuries to crack.
Last month, Giuliani sent a message to the Republican base that, in the cipher of abortion politics, was meant to say, Trust me.
The Government Code and Cipher School in Bletchley, where Alan Turing did pioneering work on early computers, is a popular site of pilgrimage.
They searched for the most commonly used characters in a cipher alphabet and matched them with the most frequently used letters in the real alphabet.
Gord Young, from Ontario, inherited a codebook which he thinks holds the key, believing the message relies on a cipher also used in World War I.
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The watermark, Dr Venter says, includes a cipher which contains the URL of a website and three quotations, if you can work out how to decode it.
But his absence from public discourse makes him a cipher.
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To envisage what Republicans would do if they win in November, the person to understand is not necessarily Romney, who has been a policy cipher all his public life.
It's clear that Mr. Obama chose Mr. Hagel not because he wants a strong and knowledgeable adviser but because he wants a cipher who will take orders from the White House.
But what we have instead is a game that hands you a key and tells you to go find a lock, or gives you a cipher and tells you to go find a code.
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Elizabeth Debicki's Jordan Baker is a flouncing cipher.
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Fincher, working with a fantastically detailed script by the young James Vanderbilt, chronicles the case of the self-identified Zodiac killer, a taunting, publicity-mad creep who murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late sixties and sent confessional notes about the crimes (sometimes in cipher) to newspapers.
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