Sentence examples for designed to ambush from inspiring English sources

They were hoping to head off new federal regulation of a business that is designed to ambush ordinary people and siphon off as much money as possible.

Together they hatched a plan to ambush the Taliban.

This is Stoppard at his most typical, laying a smoke screen designed to confuse and ambush his critics.

Maxwell's men were encamped on either side of the road leading south from Cooch's Bridge toward Aiken's Tavern (present-day Glasgow, Delaware) in a series of small camps designed to facilitate ambushes.

An Assad-regime general who had made contact with the Southern Front purposely deployed his troops in a weak formation, before defecting in a fake ambush, designed to make it look like he had been killed.

"If we wanted an MRAP" — a military vehicle, designed to protect soldiers from ambushes and mines — "we would just have to submit an application to the federal government," Skinner told me.

ambush documentaries designed to highlight the vanity and vacuity of his subjects or locate the tipping point of their tolerance.

All three were broadcast journalists of a sort, which allowed Mr. Baron Cohen's farces to double as exposés, ambush documentaries designed to highlight the vanity and vacuity of his subjects or locate the tipping point of their tolerance.

Antitrust has been ambushed by the giant companies it was designed to contain.

"To speak about 'a premeditated ambush' is not helpful and seems designed to heighten emotions in a quite gratuitous fashion," he said.

Everything we have here, everything you see" - and here he pointed at the new shops by the racetrack where, in December 1996, Saddam's son Uday had been ambushed and wounded - "everything you see is designed to protect him.