Sentence examples for ordered the bombing from inspiring English sources

When the communists launched another wave of attacks in South Vietnam in early 1969, Nixon secretly ordered the bombing to proceed.

He and the other defense lawyers argued that because President Bush recently changed policy and ordered the bombing tests stopped by 2003, there was no longer a need to impose jail sentences that might dissuade others from demonstrating.

That coincidence led the newspaper to conclude that the bomber had links with the cartel, but city and federal authorities said there was no hard evidence that drug dealers had ordered the bombing.

On March 18, one day before President Bush ordered the bombing of Iraq to begin, the Fed declared that uncertainties about Iraq had made it too difficult to assess the "balance of risks" to the economy.

Still, presidents continued to send the military into action without prior Congressional approval — both with United Nations authorization, as when George Bush intervened in Somalia in 1992, and without it, as when Bill Clinton ordered the bombing in Kosovo in 1999.

And yet I keep wondering: when in 1988, the Scottish town of Lockerbie was devastated by the terrorist bombing of the Pan Am flight 103 that killed 270 people, it took 13 years for an ex-minister of the Libyan government to state that Muammar Gaddafi ordered the bombing.

All that was required was the political will to order the bombing.

When President Bill Clinton was ordering the bombing of Iraq three years ago, he skipped the meeting.

Mr. Rafsanjani was doctrinaire anti-American hard-liner in the early days of the revolution who remains under indictment for ordering the bombing in of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994 when he was president.

He hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall.

"He hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall," Clark told CBS's Bob Schieffer energetically.