Sentence examples for foiled attempting from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

Goodwill and spirit can only go so far and the events in Hannover – another foiled attempt to bring carnage to football last night – served to reinforce that fact.

The 2005 decree was the somewhat circuitous result of an American giant's foiled attempt to buy Danone, a French yogurt-maker.

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.