Sentence examples for plot to shoot from inspiring English sources

The investigating magistrate said he believed there had been a plot to shoot down a plane carrying Libya's Colonel Muammar Gadafy and that the commercial airliner had been unwittingly caught up in the "war-like scenario".

A year or so earlier, we'd had to go into hiding under Scotland Yard protection and although the plot to shoot my father was unsuccessful, it left our family in a state of silent terror.

Prosecutors accused Mr. Hernández of knowing about the plot to shoot down the planes because he warned two agents who infiltrated the group not to fly during a four-day period that included the day of the attack.

The decision, by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, stemmed from the 2010 convictions of four men in a plot to shoot Stinger missiles at military planes at an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, N.Y., and blow up synagogues in the Bronx.

"Did he intend to really sit in a vehicle, waiting on his son to get home from school and then plot to shoot a cop if they pulled up on him?" Adding to an atmosphere loaded with suspicion and mistrust, residents of the apartment complex gave varying accounts of Mr. Scott's death.

While I was researching The Book of Exodus, my book about Bob, the wife of one of the dons – the gangleaders – who had grown to become a pacifist Rasta, revealed that her husband had discovered the plot to shoot Bob, and called to warn him.

Pentagon and intelligence officials have been warning for years that shoulder-fired missiles are prized by terrorists plotting to shoot down a commercial airliner, a military transport plane or a helicopter ferrying government officials or business executives.

A southwest Missouri man accused of plotting to shoot up a theater during the new movie "Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2" was charged on Friday after his mother contacted the police, telling them she was worried because her son had bought weapons similar to those used in the fatal Colorado theater shooting in July.

In a separate development, police in Oklahoma have arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to shoot and bomb students at his school in Bartlesville.

In a separate development, it emerged that hours before the Newtown attack, police in Oklahoma had arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to shoot and bomb students at his school in Bartlesville.

He purchases a large rifle from Jimbo's gun shop and plots to shoot Gifford.