Sentence examples for bombing upon from inspiring English sources

If there was a reasonable possibility that the factory manufactured medicine rather than arms, then the potential effects of a bombing upon Sudan's citizens (the number of people who would die without the drugs it supplied — several thousand, according to the Boston Globe) was properly part of the moral calculus.

It's being reported that a number of US journalists who should know better have even fallen for hyped terror threats used to justify the launching of bombing upon Syria.

His family was not the only one bombed upon returning.

The retaliatory action was the opening rounds of U.S. bombing attacks upon North Vietnam.

In another town of El Chorrillo, some 14,000 persons were left homeless as a result of the bombing visited upon El Chorrillo barrio from December 20th onwards.

The spectators at the bombing set upon two reporters, one American and one Egyptian, hitting one, tearing at his clothes and yelling at the two that such attacks were their fault.

The arsenal found with the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect upon his arrest Friday included at least four firearms, one of which was an M-4 carbine rifle, a weapon similar to ones used by American forces in Afghanistan, the Times reported Sunday.

Not so long ago, we were intent upon a bombing campaign to remove the Assad regime in Syria.

The Japanese military was steadfastly refusing to give up, so the peace faction seized upon the bombing as a new argument to force surrender.

Relatedly, it's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national "credibility" depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

For instance, according to a Pew Global Attitudes study, the very people in Muslim countries who looked favourably upon suicide bombing in 2002, including residents of Lebanon, Indonesia, and Pakistan, clearly expressed their rejection of suicide bombing as a tactic some five years later.