Sentence examples for terrorists may not from inspiring English sources

THE terrorists may not have succeeded in paralysing the American government, as they clearly intended.

The terrorists may not float in the air or vanish spontaneously, as Bulgakov's characters could.

Keeping track of suspected terrorists may not be the only purpose the watchlisting system serves.

There are also qualms about due process, since suspected terrorists may not have been convicted of anything.

But like consumers, terrorists may not merely stop buying a product, they may buy a cheaper substitute.

The terrorists may not, in fact, have the authority of the powers-that-be in Pyongyang – a nice diplomatic touch.

All efforts are devoted to screening people who are considered most suspect, even though the real terrorist may not match the highest profile.

"The Unknown Terrorist" may not be as ambitious as this author's last novel — the astonishing "Gould's Book of Fish," a phantasmagorical portrait of a 19th-century forger that opened out into a Melvillian meditation on art and politics and nature, the evils of colonialism and the limits of Enlightenment reason.

Terrorist groups may not accept that they are being outfought, and generally believe they can wait out the conventional forces arrayed against them.

Indeed, some senior advisers to Mr. Rumsfeld say a legal finding allowing lethal force to be used as part of a mission against a terrorist leader may not be necessary to send Special Operations forces to hunt, capture or kill Al Qaeda leaders in any country -- especially since the terror network attacked the United States on Sept. 11, creating a state of armed conflict.

This may occur even when a terrorist group may not fully understand the reasons and benefits of a mutation but relies on observing that others have adopted it.