Sentence examples for foiled attempt from inspiring English sources

Walking to a meeting in the city, I cross its last foiled attempt at regeneration.

Casement was caught in 1916 on an Irish beach during a foiled attempt to land 20,000 German rifles.

After a foiled attempt in 1991, he and two other inmates succeeded in 1992 by crawling through ductwork.

(Extreme Basque nationalists didn't take kindly to its arrival: the week before it opened, ETA killed a police officer in a foiled attempt to bomb the museum).

Military officials said that Hezbollah was working inside the village and had used it as a base in a foiled attempt to abduct Israeli soldiers in 2005.

Four officials have been arrested in connection with a foiled attempt to overthrow the government of Chad, the country's state prosecutor announced Thursday.

The shooting followed two foiled attempts on the lives of Spanish journalists in recent weeks.

Prosecutor Michael Goodwin said the men were part of a syndicate which had been foiled attempting to break UK immigration laws on at least one previous occasion.

Mr. Clarke, who says he helped save Americans from state-sponsored attacks from Iraq and Iran and foiled attempts by Al Qaeda to stage attacks, was unbowed.

Abu Qatada, 53, is charged with plotting terror attacks against Israelis, Americans and other westerners in Jordan in two foiled attempts in 1999 and 2000.

There have also been instances of radicalization of nonwhite German youth by the Islamic State, including two foiled attempts at bombings, which have understandably frightened the public.