Sentence examples for foiled an effort from inspiring English sources

It also said soldiers had foiled an effort by "armed terrorists to cross into Syria from Turkey, for the second time in a week".

Also on Sunday, Iran's Jahan News reported that Iranian security forces had foiled an effort to assassinate both Mir Hussein Moussavi, the main challenger to Mr. Ahmadinejad, and Mehdi Karroubi, another candidate in the presidential election, both of whom have called the June 12 vote fraudulent.

After Mr. Padilla was arrested in May 2002 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, interrupted a trip to Moscow to announce on television that the authorities had foiled an effort by Mr. Padilla and other Qaeda operatives to detonate a radioactive or "dirty" bomb on American streets.

The airport was the target of a foiled plot in 1999, an effort linked to agents of Osama bin Laden, and there has been great concern here about a second attempt.

New information in the Silk Road case is sending ripples of schadenfreude through the cryptocurrency community as it reacts to a foiled effort by two US Federal Agents to skim thousands of Bitcoin out of Silk Road and Mt. Gox coffers.

Similarly, the very wronging of man by man may be derived from an effort towards the Good; foiled, in their weakness, of their true desire, they turn against each other: still, when they do wrong, they pay the penalty- that of having hurt their Souls by their evil conduct and of degradation to a lower place- for nothing can ever escape what stands decreed in the law of the Universe.

AQAP has been blamed for the foiled Christmas Day 2009 effort to bomb an airliner over Detroit and for explosives-laden parcels that were intercepted the following year aboard cargo flights.

AQAP, the Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda, has also been blamed for the foiled Christmas Day 2009 effort to bomb an airliner over Detroit and explosives-laden parcels that were intercepted the following year aboard cargo flights.

The Associated Press revealed that the Justice Department had secretly obtained two months of telephone records of its reporters and editors in an effort to discover the source of a leak about a foiled bomb plot.

When Iran was suspected of being behind a foiled assassination plot in Denmark last October, Europe's initially muted response struck some as an effort to preserve the deal at all costs.

He is also playing it safe, refusing to answer reporters' questions about substantive topics, including the recently foiled terrorist effort to mail explosives to the United States.