Sentence examples for a foiled attempt from inspiring English sources

Casement was caught in 1916 on an Irish beach during a foiled attempt to land 20,000 German rifles.

After a foiled attempt in 1991, he and two other inmates succeeded in 1992 by crawling through ductwork.

(Extreme Basque nationalists didn't take kindly to its arrival: the week before it opened, ETA killed a police officer in a foiled attempt to bomb the museum).

Military officials said that Hezbollah was working inside the village and had used it as a base in a foiled attempt to abduct Israeli soldiers in 2005.

Four officials have been arrested in connection with a foiled attempt to overthrow the government of Chad, the country's state prosecutor announced Thursday.

The Indian government depicted the attack on Parliament as a foiled attempt to slaughter the elected leadership of the world's largest democracy.

Ayoub El-Khazzani, a 25-year-old Moroccan charged with attempted murder for a foiled attack on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris in August, also spent some time in this area of Brussels.

The 2005 decree was the somewhat circuitous result of an American giant's foiled attempt to buy Danone, a French yogurt-maker.

The recent foiled attempt of a London-based terrorist group to blow up a dozen planes on their way to the U.S. reminds us of the seriousness of the threats.

The newspaper said the foiled attempt was planned by an Al Qaeda unit headed by a Qatari national.

Cory! Cory!" The "people power" uprising began with a foiled coup attempt by a clique of junior officers two weeks after the election in which Mr. Marcos was declared the winner by a compliant legislature.