Sentence examples for considering bombing from inspiring English sources

Re "Obama Set for Limited Strike on Syria as British Vote No" (front page, Aug. 30): It is troubling that we are again considering bombing another far-off country, and possibly without support from the international community.

Which is why the administration is considering bombing Islamic State forces in Syria.

At one point, he considered bombing a popular fountain in Forsyth Park, in downtown Savannah.

The New York Times, meanwhile, reported that Iraq last month secretly asked Barack Obama to consider bombing Sunni militant staging posts in Iraq.

Spanish Defense Minister Federico Trillo revealed that officials earlier in the crisis considered bombing the Prestige to try to incinerate the fuel.

At one point he considered bombing Bistro Bis on Capitol Hill or the restaurant Aria on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, according to Washingtonian magazine.

Since some nationalist male Turkish politicians consider bombing poor Kurds far more honourable than belly dancing, it may be that this new argument will carry more weight.

Later in the day, Secretary Rumsfeld complained that there were no decent targets for bombing in Afghanistan and that we should consider bombing Iraq, which, he said, had better targets.

They considered bombing a bus station and a tourist site in Marrakesh, even debating the ethics of killing fellow Muslims, before settling on a strike against ships using a water-borne suicide bomb.

Alarmed by the rapid development of China's nuclear program in the early 1960's, the Kennedy and Johnson administrations considered bombing targets there and killing the experts, as well as supplying India with nuclear weapons, recently declassified documents show.

*Less than a day after the attacks, Donald H. Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, said at a cabinet-level meeting that "there were no decent targets for bombing in Afghanistan and that we should consider bombing Iraq" instead because it had "better targets".