Sentence examples for terrorist episode from inspiring English sources
BEHIND THE NEWS The bomb that exploded aboard Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, 31,000 feet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, was Britain's worst terrorist episode.
Concern about another terrorist episode in the United States has increased after the events in Boston, which led to the deaths of four people and wounded more than 260.
Mr. Megrahi, 57, a former Libyan intelligence agent, had served 8 years of a 27-year minimum sentence on charges of murdering 270 people in Britain's worst terrorist episode.
Fallows argues: "After each crash, disaster or terrorist episode, it is natural to point fingers and say, Why didn't we foresee that specific threat?
Nor was it certain that detaining all these people prevented other terrorist episodes.
He directs close studies of far-flung terrorist episodes and groups, on the theory that, as he put it, "We have to know what's going on.
The new report, reflecting two weeks of efforts led by the State Department to review the original statistics, showed that the total number of international terrorist episodes rose to 208 last year from 205 in 2002.
As an assistant Treasury secretary she played a significant role in the Bush administration's efforts to win legislation that provided support for insurers from losses from terrorist episodes after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Worse yet, Barack Obama's officials have said American forces may target Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni preacher accused of ties to several terrorist episodes, including the attempt by a Nigerian "underpants bomber" to blow up a civilian airliner over Detroit in December.
Bergen, a national security analyst for CNN, impressively covers it all: Al Qaeda's aspirations and its 9/11 attack, the Bush administration's panicky response, the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the crucial and continuing unhelpful role of Pakistan, and the terrorist episodes in London and Madrid.
Shalhoub ventured into television acting in 1986, playing a terrorist in one episode of the series The Equalizer, and in 1988 he appeared in his first television movie, Alone in the Neon Jungle.
