Sentence examples for green light to attack from inspiring English sources

The two men gave police officers a "green light" to attack demonstrators, Mr. Carollo said.

From this exchange, Amit concluded that the United States was giving Israel "a flickering green light" to attack Egypt.

After the American attack on Afghanistan, al-Qaeda's foot-soldiers have reportedly been given the green light to attack "targets of opportunity" without authorisation at the highest levels.

"The headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood will not be secured," the general said in remarks widely cited by anti-Islamist activists as a green light to attack.

There is, however, a very immediate danger that Ethiopia would see Washington's decision to list Eritrea as a green light to attack its neighbor.

When political leaders indulge in casual xenophobia, they should not be surprised to find that some extremists feel they have a green light to attack minorities.

Giving the green light to attacking President Bush.

The army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, said at a news conference today that Mr. Arafat's Palestinian Authority had given "a green light" to terrorist attacks, and "these have accelerated of late".

The bill, she said, had been "a green light to violent men to attack women".

Mr Uribe's plan to assign security tasks to up to 1m civilians could also prove a green light to more paramilitary attacks, his critics fear.Killings by the paramilitaries, and the armed forces' close ties to them, lead critics of American policy in Colombia to call for a halt to aid.

The top United Nations human rights official offered a grim appraisal of the Syrian conflict on Monday, accusing the government there of interpreting the repeated diplomatic failure to end the violence as a green light to escalate deadly attacks on its political opponents with indiscriminate brutality and "overwhelming force" over the past 10 days.