Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.
A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect.
To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water.
A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
Cunning and artifice in general.
Military deception or artifice.
Specifically, such a tactic or artifice in military operation.