Sentence examples for a hijacking of from inspiring English sources

He called the flood of money a "hijacking of our democracy".

Mamet calls this a "hijacking of the dramatic transaction," the theatrical equivalent of "bringing a gun to a knife fight".

But pro-democracy demonstrators, including many students, protested what they saw a hijacking of power by the country's ex-communists.

A better reflection of what is happening is to take a rolling average of the duration for a hijacking of the last six ships that have been released.

Representative John B. Larson of Connecticut, the committee's ranking Democrat, called the hearing a "partisan inquiry" and a "hijacking of government resources".

What we also had, after a hijacking of the meaning of the event by chicken hawks and theocons, were the Culture Wars redux.

Any linkage of overseas student recruitment to TEF scores would amount to a hijack of an exercise that would fatally undermine its larger purpose by creating powerful and perverse incentives to game the metrics.

Homes were attacked with paint bombs and stones and police say they are investigating a report of an attempted hijacking of a bus.

The PSNI confirmed that officers had fired a number of stun grenade rounds and said the service was investigating a report of an attempted hijacking of a bus.

What the authorities called a "terrorist hijacking" of a flight from Khotan to Urumqi in July (using a crutch as a weapon) was blamed by exiles on a fight provoked by anti-Uighur discrimination.

Captain Phillips is much more complex than your average action film in that it's based on the true story of a 2009 hijacking of a US container ship by Somali pirates.