Sentence examples for breakout attempt from inspiring English sources

The police said inmates had started fires and attacked guards with iron bars in a breakout attempt by 20 to 30 people at the Villawood detention center in western Sydney.

THE AGREEMENT with Iran announced early Sunday in Geneva will cap the expansion of its nuclear infrastructure and lengthen the time Tehran would need for a "breakout" attempt to build a bomb.

After a failed breakout attempt in April, major U.S. stock indices managed to hit new highs in early-May, only to give back some of their gains in recent weeks.

Vive la France!" That night the garrison made a breakout attempt, in the Camarón tradition.

Unsuccessful, she was ordered to patrol the Bay of Biscay against any breakout attempt by the German ships from Brest.

Spitfire MKVIII's took part in the last battle of WWII involving the Western allies, in Burma as a ground attack role, helping to defeat a Japanese breakout attempt.

After 35 years in jail and eight successful breakout attempts, Spain's longest-serving inmate received a government pardon yesterday that saw him and his family convinced that he would walk free immediately – only for him to remain behind bars.

But he argued that this knowledge, even though it might in theory enable some states to build nuclear weapons, would also serve as a deterrent against such breakout attempts.

Here in a country where Mr. Guzmán's prison escape in 2001 is still legendary — by some accounts, he left in a laundry bin — breakout attempts were widely seen as inevitable.

Theirs was the latest in a long line of dramatic breakout attempts.

Both sides broke off the action, Admiral Graf Spee retreating into the River Plate estuary, while Harwood's battered cruisers remained outside to observe any possible breakout attempts.