Sentence examples for attempt to disable from inspiring English sources
The Philippine patrol boat fired on the fishing boat's engines in an attempt to disable it and left the area when other boats could be seen on the horizon, Coast Guard officials said.
But as American life gets more disrupted you increasingly hear calls for a more wholesale approach: the attempt to disable the entire Middle Eastern terrorist apparatus with a series of swift, broad military strokes.
The New Yorker, October 14 , 1996P. 46 OUR LOCAL CORESPONDENTS about former New York City mayor Edward I. Koch and his attempt to disable politically & remove from office Mayor Rudolph Giuliani... Giuliani lost Koch's support last December, when it was revealed that Giuliani would not reappoint two sitting Criminal Court judges, despite recommendations from his own advisory committee.
OUR LOCAL CORESPONDENTS about former New York City mayor Edward I. Koch and his attempt to disable politically & remove from office Mayor Rudolph Giuliani... Giuliani lost Koch's support last December, when it was revealed that Giuliani would not reappoint two sitting Criminal Court judges, despite recommendations from his own advisory committee.
Yasmin Moya-Gutierrez and Tanasha Bennett, two students in voice coach Denise Woods's Express Yourself!, live… OUR LOCAL CORESPONDENTS about former New York City mayor Edward I. Koch and his attempt to disable politically & remove from office Mayor Rudolph Giuliani...… OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about roses in Brooklyn, especially a the Cranford Rose Garden.
Some viruses, including a recent one called Klez, even attempt to disable anti-virus software on machines they infect, or spread by posing as anti-virus updates.Viruses are a nuisance, but the coverage they receive is disproportionate to the danger they pose.
Attempting to disable the trigger lock destroys the iP1 "irrevocably", according to Maximilian Hefner, the firm's boss.
"She was trying to prove she can cut a few pennies; I don't think she should have attempted to disable the society of this neighborhood".
On September 19th the Egyptian coast guard, attempting to disable a fishing vessel crammed with Syrian and Palestinian families trying to escape to Europe, shot dead two refugees.
The "Amiens gun" had been shelling the city of Amiens throughout the summer, and previous attempts to disable it had been unsuccessful, but an enterprising Australian sapper commandeered the train's engine and drove it back to Allied lines.
In a paper explaining the policy, the IACP cites findings that service handguns are "generally ineffective in attempts to disable a motor vehicle", that vehicles will "almost certainly proceed out of control" if the driver is killed, that it is likely the officer will miss, and that it is possible innocent bystanders will be struck with errant bullets.
