Sentence examples for foiled a plan from inspiring English sources

Last month, they claimed to have foiled a plan to hijack an airplane and blow up a bus.

Among other plots, Jordan foiled a plan to bomb hotels and tourist sites frequented by Westerners during the celebrations marking the approach of the year 2000.

In 2000, German and French authorities foiled a plan by al-Qaeda-linked operatives to target the Strasbourg Cathedral and Christmas market on New Year's Eve.

It also claimed that the police foiled a plan to take over government buildings and declare an independent state in southern Egypt ("with the previous promise of recognition from the United States and some European countries").

Federal forces had tracked a group of militants there, and the F.S.B., Russia's domestic intelligence service, later reported that it had foiled a plan to assassinate the republic's new leaders.

Afghans Stop Plot to Kill U.S. Envoy, Officials Say Afghan officials said they foiled a plan by three Pakistani men to assassinate the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, just minutes before the attack was to take place.

Hunt recounts the dramatic story of a daring raid that foiled a bombing planned for the New York subway in 1997 and then she goes on to tell how,..

These include a foiled plan to down a Detroit-bound flight in 2009 using a new type of explosive hidden in the bomber's underwear, and another attempt a year later to send mail bombs hidden in printer cartridges on planes bound to the US from the Gulf.

Miss Mayawati's was accused of wrongdoing over a foiled plan to append a shopping mall to the Taj Mahal, UP's and India's most famous monument; Mr Yadav is under investigation, at the order of the Supreme Court, for being suspiciously rich.

The 53-year-old, who was previously acquitted in June of charges relating to a foiled plan to attack an American school in Amman in 1999, has been released from prison.

The authorities had previously connected the plot to a foiled plan to detonate explosives aboard a New York subway and a suspected plot to bomb a busy shopping area in the northern England city of Manchester.