Sentence examples for terrorists rather than from inspiring English sources

One is the apparent emphasis on capturing terrorists rather than killing them.

The fence would be a barrier to keep out terrorists rather than a political boundary.

When terrorists, rather than criminals, perpetuate violence, governments often respond in extraordinary ways.

In recent years, the Indonesian police have been criticized for shooting terrorists rather than trying to arrest them.

Military and government officials started calling the rebels "terrorists," rather than "bandits" or "criminals," as had been the practice.

By taking the war to the terrorists, rather than waiting for them to strike us again, President Bush has done so.

The Afghans identified the suspect only as a "terrorist" rather than as a member of a particular group.

Nearly all the focus has been on what the chances are that one of them could be a terrorist, rather than the possibility that many of them or their children could become notable leaders.

After some sympathetic questions from a couple of editors, Hitchen sprang to his feet to ask why the South African government should think of freeing a terrorist rather than negotiating a deal with the Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who had split from the ANC and was generally regarded as an apartheid government collaborator.

And while the overwhelming majority of Palestinian dead are civilians – 430 of them children – and 64 of the Israeli dead are soldiers, it is Hamas that is branded terrorist, rather than the Israeli armed forces armed with the most sophisticated targeting technology in the world.

Nor will it offset the Islamophobia that saw the winner of The Great British Bake Off, Nadiya Hussain, worry she had "put her kids in danger" by appearing on the show, or address instances like that of the 10-year-old Muslim boy questioned by police apparently because he made a spelling mistake and wrote that he lived in a "terrorist" rather than a "terraced" house.