Sentence examples for an effort to foil from inspiring English sources

The technique has been used for years in Europe in an effort to foil terrorists, but after the Sept. 11 attacks many travel experts considered it inadequate.

There are letters containing diagrams of pillar box designs sent in by the public in an effort to foil the attacks of suffragettes, who saw them as a symbol of government, at times destroying thousands in a single night.

In what is being described as an effort to foil terrorists and other criminals, the department announced this month that -- beginning immediately -- Americans who lose their passports abroad or who live overseas and need a new one will be issued a state-of-the-art passport with a computer-generated digital photograph of the applicant.

The offer is an effort to foil a June acquisition proposal from TMP Worldwide, which owns number one job site Monster.com.

In an effort to foil the attacks, the US Central Intelligence Agency CIAA) has ramped up missile strikes from unmanned drones against militants in the Pakistani tribal regions, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing security officials.

Although this estimate would turn out to be highly optimistic, the following year, in an effort to foil concert bootleggers, Elvis Presley succeeded in delivering a live album just eight days after his own, much-publicised Madison Square Garden shows.

The amendment, an apparent effort to foil Texas legislators' efforts to push sales of the Huey to Colombia, failed, but the Black Hawks, which had been written out of Plan Colombia, went back into the final package".

It was Tanaka alone who directed the effort to foil the federal inquiry, Hochman contended, saying the undersheriff took advantage of the trust Baca put in him to pursue his own agenda.

In 2001 Young responded to the September 11 attacks with "Let's Roll," a song honouring passengers' efforts to foil the hijacking of one of the planes (Flight 93) used in the attack.

The matter relates to Risen's 2006 book, State of War, that included a passage on CIA efforts to foil Iranian nuclear ambitions for which Sterling was accused of having been the source four years later.

Despite Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) and Andre's (Trai Byers) efforts to foil a bomb attack at the opening of the Leviticus Resort & Casino in the Season 3 finale, an explosion left Lucious (Terrence Howard) in a coma.