Sentence examples for aborted flight from inspiring English sources

As one of our fellow "survivors" on the aborted flight to Islamabad put it: "I almost died twice today!" Thank you for giving us the possibility of recalling those traumatic experiences from more than 15 years ago.

Immigrants on a recent aborted flight for repatriation from the U.S. to Somalia are now telling of an ordeal where they were beaten and not given sufficient food.

The angry businessman from my own aborted flight would also be experiencing this storm, as would the ill stewardess, all of us trapped in the same county for the night.

Lagarde — I thought of him as François le français, paring apples with a penknife and likening aborted flights to failed love affairs — had jury-rigged the line by piecing in some scraps.

While Alonzo Mourning has thrown his muscular body around the paint and the reserve point guard Anthony Carter gathering more rebounds than Camby over the last three games, Camby has found his production lost in a stream of finger rolls that do not come close to the target and aborted flights toward the rim.

Mr Mlotshwa, who was handcuffed and wearing leg-locks during his aborted Virgin Airways flight, alleges that he was punched and kicked by guards and had his wrist twisted back.

Probing the engine one afternoon, Jeff Powell, the mechanic the fly-in community uses, found that Mr. Saint might no longer be around had he not aborted his flight: part of the crankshaft had broken.

Following an aborted escape attempt he received a prison sentence.

Over stretches of sustained harmonic backdrops musical fragments come and go: squirreling figures, aborted melodic flights, hazy bursts of brass with indeterminate pitch.

Instead, he set the wordy text to a lyrically enhanced dramatic recitative, which sits -- sometimes uneasily -- atop his teeming orchestral music: a pulsating and relentless succession of compact thematic episodes, sudden outbursts, buzzing rhythmic figurations, aborted melodic flights, and occasionally a reflective passage that cuts off just when you are settling into it.

Celia W. Dugger (NYT) MIDDLE EAST IRAQ: FRENCH FLIGHT ABORTED -- A French flight carrying anti-sanctions protesters to Baghdad had to be called off when organizers of the trip could not strike a deal with a Belgian air charter company.