Sentence examples for large-scale bombings from inspiring English sources

It is therefore possible that, in a few months' time, we will have a major military clash on our hands, not just the ticking over of long drawn out hostilities as, sadly, is the case even now - the bombs continue to fall periodically - but large-scale bombings within the space of a few weeks.

The group also claimed responsibility for large-scale bombings in Baghdad in August and October.

And several attempts at large-scale bombings like Eric and Dylan attempted have been thwarted.

Although the Real IRA has access to explosives it has yet to carry out large-scale bombings.

The bomber's ability to infiltrate the area near the police academy, a target of past attacks, highlighted the continuing difficulty of preventing large-scale bombings.

There is no pixellation or sanitizing of violence here in Beirut, where I live and where large-scale bombings are becoming routine.

Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and its affiliate groups, which are blamed by the American military for most large-scale suicide bombings, have recently used women wearing suicide vests and, in at least one case, a young teenager, to carry out strikes.

These events have ranged from large-scale terrorist bombings, bioterrorism, and environmental contamination in 2001 2002, to pandemic influenza in 2009 2010, to current hurricane-related disruptions of major hospital systems that continue to jeopardize health care provision in the city months after the storm.

They predict a move away from large-scale, co-ordinated bombings, which have needed considerable training and operational support, to the greater use of lone individuals carrying out smaller-scale random attacks against different targets.

In style at least, the bombings themselves recalled a revolt in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when an Islamist insurgency marked by bombings and large-scale killings posed a sweeping challenge to the rule of Hafez al-Assad, the father of Syria's current president, Bashar al-Assad.

After suffering large-scale destruction in the aerial bombings of World War II, it underwent residential and commercial redevelopment in the latter half of the 20th century.