Sentence examples for hijacking from inspiring English sources

"hijacking" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when referring to the act of forcefully taking control of a plane, vehicle, or other public area. Example: The hijacking of a plane from Peru caused a media sensation.

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hijacking

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Present participle of hijack

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The violence spread to east Belfast after loyalists returning from a protest at city hall attacked the Catholic enclave of Short Strand, hijacking a bus on the Albertbridge Road and confronting police.

Their commanders become rich from hijacking trucks loaded with goods heading to Damascus.

How come he is not charged?" American prosecutors last week accused nine senior current or former Fifa officials – seven of whom, including the Fifa vice-presidents Jeffrey Webb and Eugenio Figueredo, were arrested in dawn raids at a five-star hotel in Switzerland – of "hijacking" international football to run "a World Cup of fraud" to line their pockets by $150m.

When he spoke of the Islamic Action Front's support for the press, some local journalists heckled him, accusing him of hijacking the occasion to serve his party's agenda.

But the border between computing and biology is vanishing fast, and the process of hijacking the information-processing potential of DNA to build logic circuits has only just begun.

IT IS hard to believe that the prime minister, Sushil Koirala, once had the oomph to take part in hijacking an aeroplane full of cash.

DarkHotel, which targets corporate executives and other bigwigs by hijacking hotel Wi-Fi systems and which was discovered only weeks before Regin, has been tentatively pinned on South Korea.

Might the company not simply be waiting for XML, SOAP and the other new standards to take off, ask its critics, before hijacking them by creating its own proprietary versions?Such fears were heightened last month when Microsoft announced a batch of services, codenamed HailStorm, that form part of its.NET strategy.

One Western diplomat who has followed events says that Hezb-e-Islami is now hijacking Andar's home-grown uprising.

One involved hijacking a plane, another the seizure of worshippers from a city church, a third the capture of a group of sports fishermen.

A related fraud involves hijacking a bank or credit card account by impersonating a genuine customer and redirecting their mail.Somebody suffers in both cases: that makes identity fraud different from the "victimless" frauds commonly perpetrated against banks and the welfare state.

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