Sentence examples for foiled to from inspiring English sources

And you see a terrorist group which has big ambitions for enormous and spectacular attacks, not just the types that we've seen foiled to date".

The novel is affecting not just because of his sadness but because of his determination, often foiled, to wring his father's poison out of his life — his only hope for achieving a semblance of happiness and sanity.

Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Tuesday that she had asked General Alexander to declassify more information about the surveillance programs — like terrorist plots that might have been foiled — to help explain their usefulness.

Brussels last cancelled its New Year fireworks in 2007, when it was also on high alert after a plan was foiled to free Tunisian Nizar Trabelsi, convicted of plotting to blow up a military base.

He is also linked to foiled plots to kill in the UK over a decade ago, youngsters who have fled to join Isis in Syria, leaving their families distraught, and the alleged inspiration of violence across Europe.

He is also linked to foiled plots to kill in the UK over a decade ago, youngsters who have fled to join Isis in Syria, leaving their families distraught, and the alleged fuelling of violence across Europe.

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.

Among those who are subject to a TPims order are two men who were allegedly linked to the foiled plot to smuggle liquid explosives onto transatlantic airlines in 2006.

His middle name is Marryat, after an ancestor, the adventure writer Captain Frederick Marryat, whose well-to-do family permitted him to join the Royal Navy only after several foiled attempts to run away to sea.

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.

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.