Sentence examples for grim attacks from inspiring English sources

The latest in the series, Waves 2015 was produced days after the grim attacks on Parisian bars, restaurants, and the Bataclan that happened last November.

"If it is a large and grim attack, he might ask for more surveillance powers inside the U.S. (including fewer restrictions on data mingling and storage and queries), more immigration control power at the border, an exception to Posse Comitatus (which prohibits the military from law enforcement in the homeland), and perhaps more immigration-related detention powers," Goldsmith wrote in an e-mail.

The early 2000s were grim: terrorist attacks in America, a global outbreak of SARS and the war in Iraq all tempered people's appetites for international travel and frivolous purchases.

The Grim Sleeper attacks failed to raise alarms the way other famous serial killers such as the Hillside Strangler or the Nightstalker did.

Indeed, most school officials did little to halt the grim parade of attacks and indignities foisted upon Daniel.

The Ottoman sultan Selim I (the Grim) responded by attacking the reinforced Mamlūk army in Syria, probably as a preliminary step in a new campaign against the Ṣafavids.

I suspect Cameron felt impelled to authorise the Reaper (as in Grim Reaper?) drone attack from RAF Waddington in distant Lincolnshire (or from the even more distant US airbase at Creech in Nevada, where UK crews also operate) because any failure to prevent a terrorist attack of which the intelligence services had prior knowledge might have finished his career.

The threat is sometimes called "Haart attacks" — a grim pun on the medical acronym for "highly active antiretroviral therapy".

Germany has a grim track record of attacks on young people, with two teenagers returning to their schools to launch massacres in the last 15 years, one in 2002 and a second in 2009.

His way of overcoming the campiness, by and large, is to to soar above the wild boar attacks and grim Australian thugs with names like Dicko which gives the film an endearing surreality, one that its goofy concept might not suggest. Colin Joyce.

The attack, a grim reminder of the dangers militants pose to their opponents, comes just months ahead of national elections, expected to be held in the spring.