Sentence examples for hijack of from inspiring English sources

Can a director be arrested for the attempted hijack of our emotions?

In 2001, 19 Arabic-speaking young men killed thousands of Americans (and people from other countries) with a low-tech hijack of four aircraft.

The film is a real-time account of the hijack of the fourth plane seized on September 11, which passengers attempted to retake from their captors.

The action centred on the Israeli army's 500-strong commando response to the hijack of an Air France plane given permission to land at Entebbe airport in Uganda.

Any linkage of overseas student recruitment to TEF scores would amount to a hijack of an exercise that would fatally undermine its larger purpose by creating powerful and perverse incentives to game the metrics.

Chelsea's alleged hijack of Pedro's supposed move to Manchester United might be the most recent high-profile example of wily cunning and chicanery in the transfer market, but it is certainly not without precedent.

VICE: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency.

By the mid 1950s, use of the term had been broadened to encompass the hijacking of trucks carrying legitimate cargo, as well as the hijacking of legal ships.

The camp brought non-Iraqi Arabs from Persian Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, Mr. Khodada said, and gave them training "on assassinations, kidnapping, hijacking of airplanes, hijacking of buses, hijacking of trains, and all other kinds of operations related to terrorism".

He called the flood of money a "hijacking of our democracy".

But seemingly everyone is aggrieved about the hijacking of the political system by anonymous special interests.