Sentence examples for hijack from inspiring English sources

She said: "His status as honorary president does not give him the right to hijack the Front National with vulgar provocations seemingly designed to damage me, but that unfortunately hit the whole movement".

If they're worried by it, what was the message they were sending by letting professional attention-seeker Geoffrey Edelston hijack and degrade Malthouse's record-breaking 715th game, of all occasions, when Edelsten dragged his sleazy one-man circus into the coaching box for the sake of coterie funds?

The school rejected the findings of the Ofsted report as driven by media coverage of the Trojan horse letter, which alleged that there had been a longstanding attempt by conservative Islamists to hijack school governing bodies.

In early 1998, some of the biggest fossil fuel companies in the world were hatching a plan to hijack the science of human-caused global warming.

A second theory is that the escalation is coming from certain rooftoppers using the practice as a pathway into political activism – and the Hong Kong hijack and the Moscow star stunt certainly indicate this may be the case.

Anti-EU campaigners in the Tory party must also tread a fine line between making common cause with Mr Farage and not letting him hijack the whole thing.

From my own conversations with headteachers, elected officials and parents, I know there are serious and legitimate concerns about attempts to hijack the governance and ethos of schools in Birmingham and other urban areas.

Emergency codes allow crew to enter an aircraft cockpit in the event of an incapacitated pilot, but the co-pilot is thought to have intentionally overridden the system, which is a post-11 September 2001 security measure intended to prevent hijack.

This week, the Pakistani Taliban attacked the international airport in Karachi, the country's largest city, in a mercifully unsuccessful attempt to hijack or destroy aeroplanes.

Left-wing radicals who have tried to hijack the greens' cause were occupying the square, draping giant banners over the Taksim monument and surrounding buildings in open defiance of the government's authority.

However, its first big operation, an apparently overreaching plan to hijack a Pakistani frigate and attack American warships, came to naught after it was foiled by a guard.Although the army's battlefield success, splits in the TTP's ranks and a tug-of-war between IS and al-Qaeda have reduced violence in Pakistan, hopes of this lasting are not high.