Some firms assume they are paying to cover people who are ineligible but choose not to pry into employees' lives.

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They devoted most of their time and their energy to attempts to pry into the personal life of the president.

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In an age when rights advocates fear that government and business already know too much, smart tech could become another way to pry into private lives.

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The more services Yahoo offered, the longer its guests would stay and the more Yahoo could pry into their habits and sharpen efforts to target them.

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Critics complain that such invigilation will eventually lead to the establishment of a global super-cop with the power to pry, unchecked, into people's private affairs.

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Because if the Suez were to be blocked the U.S. would have no choice but to step right into the mud of Egyptian politics to pry it open again, and exact retribution on the perpetrators.

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He still occasionally blacksmiths in a little tin shed on the Patagonia campus, and he showed me his latest project, a metal mussel knife that he's been beating into perfect shape sharp at the blade to pry open the shells, blunt at the handle to knock away the barnacles.

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The faceplates snap firmly into place, but you'll probably need the help of a coin to pry them off -- we still prefer the magnetic connection that Astro uses, rather than the snap-on designs from TB and Tritton.

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