Sentence examples for piracy attempt from inspiring English sources
But Italy insisted that there was a piracy attempt and that since the shooting took place in international waters, India had no jurisdiction to try the marines on murder charges in India.
An unsuccessful attack refers to any piracy attempt resulting in "(1) approaching a ship but not boarding or (2) boarding a ship but leaving without any proceeds" while successful attacks refer to piracy attempts resulting in "(1) hijacking, (2) ransom, or (3) theft" (Shane and Magnuson 2014, p. 8).
Nine of the piracy attempts this year have been successful, according to the data, compared with 34 successful attacks in all of 2011 and 68 in 2010.
Shane, Piza and Mandala's (2015) study examined 4902 successful and unsuccessful piracy attempts in evaluating the effectiveness of situational crime prevention measures.
30 people have been charged with piracy after attempting to board the Gazprom oil rig last month.
While these legal proceedings have countered a number of cases of outright piracy, other attempts have targeted not-for-profit endeavours and have been criticised.
Back then, two similar services Uploaded.to and Filesonic shut down on their own, while other sites were quick to distance themselves from evil piracy in an attempt to prevent their own businesses from being crushed by the government.
A United States federal appeals court upheld the convictions of five Somali pirates on Wednesday, making clear that the definition of piracy includes violent attempts to hijack a ship even if unsuccessful.
Other technology executives draw a parallel between Hollywood's complaints about Internet piracy and its attempts in the late 1970's and early 80's to outlaw the VCR -- before videocassette sales and rentals dwarfed box-office receipts.
First, we incorporate an additional year of data (2013) to further test the effect of SCP on attempted piracy attacks.
Thirty people are being held on suspicion of "piracy" after activists attempted to scale a Russian oil rig.
