Sentence examples for of attempted hijacking from inspiring English sources

Mr. Foqara faces up to five years in prison if convicted of attempted hijacking.

The caller, Anatoly Popov, was identified as a Russian convicted of attempted hijacking in 1976.

The man, a 29-year-old Swedish citizen of Tunisian descent, was held on suspicion of attempted hijacking, but officials gave conflicting accounts about a possible motive.

Under Swedish law, the authorities have an initial deadline of noon Monday to authorize his detention or release the man, who is being held on suspicion of attempted hijacking and illegal possession of a handgun.

The PSNI confirmed that officers had fired a number of stun grenade rounds and said the service was investigating a report of an attempted hijacking of a bus.

Homes were attacked with paint bombs and stones and police say they are investigating a report of an attempted hijacking of a bus.

Like Kirk, Picard also suffers the indignity of an attempted hijacking.

He was convicted by special courts on charges of corruption and attempted hijacking.

Another attempted hijacking of what are supposed to be nonpolitical retention elections — essentially referendums focused on a judge's competence and honesty — is gathering steam in Florida.

The attempted hijacking of a Saudi Arabian plane raised more than the usual interest because the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia has been strongly denounced by religious conservatives in the Islamic world, as well as by Osama bin Laden, a Saudi citizen who lived in Sudan in the 1990's before being expelled and moving to Afghanistan.

Ed Stewart, a spokesman for the airline, said today that it was "crystal clear" that Mr. Burton was trying to disrupt the flight, calling his actions "less an example of air rage than an attempted hijacking".