Sentence examples for preceding the attacks from inspiring English sources

The first Makana novel was set in 1998; Dogstar Rising unfolds in the months preceding the attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001.

Immediately after Sept. 11 and in the months that followed, the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and other agencies involved in counterterrorism defended their failure to detect the plot by insisting that the hijackers had gone out of their way to enter the United States legally and to avoid detection in the months preceding the attacks.

In the pages of the indictment are a history of Al Qaeda, a chronology of events preceding the attacks, a reconstruction of bank transactions that financed the hijackings and a diary of the hijackers' movements -- evidence that is expected to be fully featured in the trial.

Clinton and her senior aides should have paid more attention to deteriorating security in Libya over the months preceding the attacks, along with requests from the post for additional resources, said Eric Nordstrom, who served as the embassy's security chief until July.

Since migraine is a recurrent paroxysmal disease characterized by attacks (ictal period) and variable pain-free periods (interictal), it was of interest to perform sequential recordings during the days preceding the attacks, immediately before or during the attack.

Jarrah maintained contact with his girlfriend in Germany and his family in the months preceding the attacks.

In the fall of 1941, preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor, undergraduate enrollment stood at 2,432.

There is also a retrograde loss that may initially extend up to years preceding the attack.

For weeks preceding the attack, Filin had been subjected to anonymous threats and harassment.

The Israelis, while monitoring the troop buildup along their borders in the days preceding the attack, were caught unaware, seeing the massive mobilization as more bluster than threat.

The Washington Post even had a front-page story on Sept. 12 about a protest preceding the attack, quoting among others, the Libyan deputy interior minister.