Sentence examples for spectacular operations from inspiring English sources

And these were just the most spectacular operations.

Possibly, or perhaps of a new confidence that a few successful, spectacular operations might prompt a wave of radicalisation and mobilisation.

It was one of the more spectacular operations in his career as a self-professed professional revolutionary, and he had carefully dressed for the part in a black beret and leather jacket meant to invoke Che Guevara, pop martyr supreme.

In a string of spectacular operations with melodramatic names, the police have recently caught judges taking bribes to keep gambling halls in business, congressmen arranging the purchase of ambulances at inflated prices and a retailer smuggling in luxury goods.

The Embassy attack was one in a series of spectacular operations, which have included assassinations and suicide bombings, that have contributed to a growing sense of demoralization among the Afghans and their American sponsors.

Spectacular operations such as the 9/11 attacks were aimed at radicalising millions of people around the world, or prompting a response from the west that would lead to that mobilisation.

Pakistani media commentators have been quick to ask how the Taliban could have planned the spectacular operation, moving dozens of their men through northwestern Pakistan, without being detected.

As Mr Uribe's defence minister for three years, Mr Santos was responsible for several decisive blows against the guerrillas, including a spectacular operation that freed Ingrid Betancourt, a Franco-Colombian politician, and 14 other FARC hostages.

The French authorities have made it clear that the aim of this highly spectacular operation was to send a pre-emptive message, to nip in the bud the perceived threat of anti-capitalist movements that refuse the parliamentary arena and opt for direct action.

So what better way to prove this new cohesion than to escalate the jihad with a spectacular operation?

Britain's bomber supremo, Sir Arthur Harris, who had opposed the raid as harebrained all along, with some justification, wrote later: "I have seen nothing... to show that the effort was worthwhile except as a spectacular operation".