Sentence examples for was preparing to attack from inspiring English sources

There was also a tip that a female suicide bomber was preparing to attack the Paris Métro.

The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, voiced concern yesterday that the US was preparing to attack his country.

Last month, the French authorities said they had a tip that a female suicide bomber was preparing to attack the Paris subway.

In his acceptance speech, Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian writer and director of "A Separation," referred to mounting speculation that Israel was preparing to attack Iran's nuclear complexes.

Howe had got (I think 100) flat bottomed boats alongside, & 30 of them were then loaded with men; by which it was concluded he was preparing to attack, yet this is Tuesday & we hear nothing further.

By late summer, ISIS was preparing to attack the Kurdish capital, Erbil, and thousands of members of Iraq's Yazidi religious community had fled to the slopes of Mt. Sinjar.

The Super Hornet patrol was prepared to attack it with bunker-busting bombs, weapons designed to penetrate concrete and guided to their targets by satellite.

Mr Singh refused to say what India would do next if Mr Musharraf failed to deliver and whether it was prepared to attack its nuclear rival.

In 1994, the United States was prepared to attack the North Korean nuclear complex, says Kim Young-sam, who was South Korea's president at the time.

JAMES H. WENDORF Executive Director, National Center for Learning Disabilities New York, Feb. 6, 2012 To the Editor: The headline "The Upside of Dyslexia" raised my hackles, and I was prepared to attack what the author, Annie Murphy Paul, said in the article.

Mr. Siyad said recent intelligence had indicated that militants were preparing to attack him.