Sentence examples for looming attack from inspiring English sources

The context was a looming attack on Benghazi by Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces, an attack reasonably expected to lead to a massacre.

Gall, a former presenter of News at Ten, was on board today to discuss the looming attack on Iraq with breakfast presenters Jane Moore and John Nicolson.

The agency now joins the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in facing intense public scrutiny for apparently missing potential signals of a looming attack before Sept. 11.

In Damascus, as people stock up on food and water and the government closes central streets and moves troops and matériel into residential areas and schools, even staunch supporters of the uprising against Mr. Assad are divided on the looming attack.

The notion of a looming attack on the grid has recently gained a conservative political following, with Newt Gingrich, who sought the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, championing a novel that imagines the crippling of the nation and the starvation of millions by unidentified enemies using high-tech methods to fry components of the grid with an electromagnetic pulse.

The C.I.A. and F.B.I. have been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks for missing signals of the looming attacks.

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While living in occupied territory with her husband James Secord – who had been seriously wounded at the Battle of Queenston Heights – Secord overheard information about the looming US attack on the loyalists.

The event was the publication of Roberta Wohlstetter's groundbreaking study of the most massive intelligence breakdown to that date in American history — namely the failure to detect the looming Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor even though the United States had cracked the Japanese code and was secretly reading its messages.

As well as some of the strictest internet access controls by any government on earth, the country also boasts an expensive and sophisticated CCTV network – a constant eye on the streets, searching for anything that could suggest criminal activity or a looming terror attack.

He was asked what he would do in the event of a looming preemptive attack against a hypothetical anti-American nation promoting terrorism.