Sentence examples for staging a crash from inspiring English sources

Moving swiftly to limit damage from Formula One racing's worst scandal while saving the participation of a powerful and wealthy sponsor, the sport's ruling body confirmed Monday that France's Renault racing team had fixed a Grand Prix in Singapore last year by staging a crash, but stopped short of expelling Renault from Formula One.

In a book, published in 2001 after he had already been jailed for breaking the Official Secrets Act, Tomlinson said those options included staging a crash in a tunnel involving a blinding flash of light from a strobe gun while Milosevic was at a peace conference in Geneva.

Only Fernando Alonso won from farther back — in 2008, when his teammate staged a crash to help him win — and this time Alonso finished in third place after starting in fifth.

Still, he won two races in 2008, one of which would later also be shrouded in scandal and lead to Briatore's exclusion from the series — when Alonso's teammate staged a crash to help him win the race in Singapore.

But there has never been a case like the one that was revealed last month when Nelson Piquet Jr., a former driver at the Renault team, told the International Automobile Federation, the sport's governing body, that he had been asked by his team directors to stage a crash to help his teammate, Fernando Alonso, win the Singapore Grand Prix.

Khan had driven past RAF Lakenheath and other US bases on his delivery route, and had discussed staging a car crash and attacking a soldier with a knife.

Tomlinson claimed that MI6 had considered assassinating Slobodan Milošević, the president of Serbia, by staging a car crash using a powerful strobe light to blind the driver.

Some former anti-communist allies accused each other of staging a plane crash that killed 96 people in 2010 – including our then-President Lech Kaczynski.

In an extraordinary public apology, NBC said Tuesday night that it erred in staging a fiery test crash of a General Motors pickup truck for its "Dateline NBC" news program and agreed to settle a defamation suit filed by the auto maker.

Is it a nod to the way that Ed has to stage a fake crash twice when he manages to rear-end his car on a tree instead of ramming in with the windshield?

Thanou did not fail a drug test, but she and her teammate Kostas Kenteris missed drug tests before the 2004 Games in Athens and were kept from competing by Greek Olympic officials after it was determined they had staged a motorcycle crash to cover up their absence.