Sentence examples for a major attack when from inspiring English sources

The public order minister, Nikos Dendias, went so far as to warn of a "major attack" when he briefed the governing coalition's party leaders about the violence during a crisis meeting of the politicians late on Monday.

In 1985, the airline suffered its most recent major attack, when Palestinians attacked the check-in counters at the airports in Rome and Vienna with guns and grenades, leaving 18 people dead.

Iraq had not seen a major attack since late January, when a car bomber struck near a funeral procession in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, killing 31 and wounding about 30.

It's hard to even imagine anyone being happy or cheering, when such a major attack takes place only 11 minutes away from you.

Sir George's intervention, on a day when Mr Blair is mounting a major attack on the SNP, came as a huge publicity coup for the nationalists.

One notable example came two weeks ago, when eight security contractors from Blackwater USA helped repel a major attack on a coalition authority building in Najaf.

Intelligence reports of a major attack went unheeded.

It was a major heart attack — when he arrived at the hospital, doctors gave him only a fifty-fifty chance of survival — and at one point during the trip Johnson told the doctor that he couldn't stand the pain.

Kolarov became a major attacking threat but too late.

It was my wolf pack that came to the rescue when my husband had a heart attack, when my daughter needed major surgery and I fell apart, when I brought my children home from China without a clue about how to take care of them.

Meanwhile, last Friday's ANON OPS press release explained why the group's assault on Amazon was aborted; "Simply put, attacking a major retailer when people are buying presents for their loved ones would be in bad taste".