Sentence examples for terrorism attempt from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chertoff said he found such statements a "strategic retreat" from more strident positions taken before last week's terrorism attempt.

The suspect in Friday's failed terrorism attempt on the same flight, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is also Nigerian.

The incident came amid security measures that were begun by the Transportation Security Administration in response to Friday's terrorism attempt.

At airports around the country nearly two weeks after a thwarted terrorism attempt on a flight to Detroit, dozens of travelers told of remarkably different experiences with security measures.

The terrorism attempt was the latest is a string of plots since last year involving Americans or immigrants who had become radicalized, often through exposure to extremist Web sites.

He was lucky that no one was hurt (except a would-be bomber) in the terrorism attempt in June, when explosives packed in two cars in London and one in Glasgow failed to detonate.

"Terrorism attempts to frighten us and disrupt our lives.

Mr. Abdulmutallab faces eight federal counts, including conspiring to commit an act of terrorism, attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempted murder.

He faces eight charges, which include conspiracy to commit terrorism, attempted murder and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.

Indeed, Yemen, once little known to most Americans, has been the source of some of the most dramatic terrorism attempts of recent years.

Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, the explosive found in two bombs hidden in printer cartridges that were being shipped via jets from Yemen to the United States, is a hallmark of earlier Qaeda-linked terrorism attempts on airplanes.