Sentence examples for unsuccessful attacks from inspiring English sources

OIRA staged a handful of largely unsuccessful attacks before declaring a ceasefire in 1972.

He launched two unsuccessful attacks, one in 1628 and the other in 1629.

After frequent but unsuccessful attacks by the Mughals in the 17th century, it fell to the Marathas in 1739 and was later taken by the British.

Before the two unsuccessful attacks, the farthest south Somali pirates had reached was about 80 nautical miles east of the Tanzania-Mozambique border.

In July 2007, suicide bombers killed seven Spanish tourists in eastern Yemen, and there were two unsuccessful attacks on oil installations.

Sometimes sheer luck plays a role, too: "The highest proportion of unsuccessful attacks occurred in 2011, when four out of nine recorded attacks were unsuccessful," the report says.

Hawkins died the night before an unsuccessful attack on Puerto Rico.

Against this most natural of readings, respondents make a lengthy, spirited, but ultimately unsuccessful attack.

Suddenly abandoning Macedonia, however, he launched an unsuccessful attack on Sparta to restore Cleonymus (272).

He was seriously wounded in an unsuccessful attack on Savannah, Georgia (September October 1779), and returned to France with his squadron.

In 1998, Clinton authorized a notoriously unsuccessful attack against bin Laden which happened to coincide with his deposition on Monica Lewinsky.