Sentences with phrase «hijackers on»

We catch up with Steve Rogers / Captain America (Chris Evans) on a run around D.C's reflecting pool, lapping soon - to - be new friend Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), and within minutes, Rogers, along with Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) finds himself engaged in battle with hijackers on the high seas.
It gave the hijackers on 9/11 an answer.

Not exact matches

Prayer certainly changed the Manhattan skyline on 9/11, when the prayers of the hijackers — all, pious, devoted religious fanatics — were apparently answered.
I hope that you can also be on the lookout for the insidious hijacker (s)- or technical SNAFU - which has infested another article («Opinon [sic]: Hey Christians, be nice!»)
Police raided the mosque on Monday and hunted for evidence of jihadist activities German police have shut down the Hamburg mosque where the 9/11 hijackers met before their suicide attacks on the US in 2001.
You see Koresh, the hijackers, the wacko in the Netherlands, the clowns in Jonestown, the zealots in Wacko, the loonies on Ruby Ridge, the PLO, the Klan, the IDF or ANYONE who kills because they believe God willed it is no differnt than the others.
Similarly we have seen stories on the news where cars Hijackers have stolen a car only to be left with an unsuspecting passenger.
The publication also alleged that the Defence Ministry source spoke on condition of anonymity because the issue is sensitive, saying the hijackers have given the government 31 days to free Kanu or they will blow up the ship along with its crew.
Their main concern seems to be a shadowy spectre of alleged «hijackers» and «activists» bent on disrupting the events.
The new rules are intended to close a security gap brought to light after 9/11, when it emerged that one of the19 hijackers had come to the United States on a student visa, and two others were posthumously granted student status months after the attacks.
► A man is escorted out of a room by an armed hijacker and he is shown with a very bloody face as he lies on the floor and one of the hijackers kicks him hard in the abdomen.
Based on the 1976 events when a plane on route to Paris from Tel Aviv was forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers.
Two of the hijackers are German revolutionaries, and they know that they'll be seen as fascists on a par with Nazis, for holding a planeload of Jewish people at -LSB-...]
And when the film's big, set - piece climax — the Israeli assault on the hijackers — finally comes, it feels oddly downbeat.
Two of the hijackers are German revolutionaries, and they know that they'll be seen as fascists on a par with Nazis, for holding a planeload of Jewish people at gunpoint.
A hijacker with a gun follows an engineer around a plane on a tarmac in a threatening manner as it is refueled and holds a grenade under the man's chin (the gunman then gets back on the plane).
Entebbe tells two stories — that of the hijackers and the hostages on the ground in Uganda, and also of the Israeli government trying to work out what to do about their demands.
The film focuses alternately on the tensions in the Israeli government over how to deal with the crisis, and the conflict between the two German hijackers who start to question their commitment to a cause they have no real stake in.
Unlike previous tellings of this story, «7 Days in Entebbe» focuses on the hijackers: specifically Germans Wilfried Bose (a quietly intense Daniel Bruhl) and Brigitte Kuhlmann (a jittery, de-glammed Rosamund Pike), who have teamed up with members of a pro-Palestinian group to plot and pull off this mid-air attack on Israel.
A subway dispatcher calls on his extensive knowledge of the transit system to outwit hijackers who are threatening to kill passengers unless a ransom is paid.
Entebbe is based on true story of four hijackers who took a plane hostage and diverted it to land in Entebbe, Uganda, while they demanded the release of dozens of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian prisoners.
When four hijackers takeover an Air France jet en route from Tel Aviv to Paris on June 27, 1976, the 248 passengers aboard are unaware of the harrowing ordeal that awaits them.
The film, which featured the actor as an ex-cop with an attitude who takes on an airplane hijacker, proved to be a hit.
Opting for straight - line suspense, the filmmakers had to forgo subjective cutaways like the plainclothes cop's reflections on his tortuous relationship with a Third - World - infatuated feminist; again, Stone writes in a more bedrock commentary on metropolitan backsliding by refusing to reveal which of the hostages is the cop, so that the police monitoring the stolen train are led to wonder whether it's a man or a woman and chauvinistically calculate a woman's chances for taking effective action against the hijackers.
Now comes 7 Days In Entebbe, Padilha's chronicle of Operation Entebbe, the true story of four 1976 hijackers who took over a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris, and forced it to land in Uganda (also the subject of Irvin Kershner's»77 TV Movie Raid On Entebbe).
The buzz is short - lived, however, for soon the Point Break - ish plot (undercover cop must infiltrate world of street racing to nab some high - speed truck hijackers / robbers) takes over and the film must rest on the meager talents of pretty boy Paul Walker, who plays cop Brian O'Connor.
But when things don't go as planned for the desperate hijackers, Muse takes Phillips hostage and escapes on the ship's lifeboat, leading to a tense standoff between the Somali pirates and the U.S. Navy.
The film takes place on a transatlantic flight where a U.S. Air Marshall (Liam Neeson) must stop a mysterious hijacker who is threatening to kill a passenger...
Four decades on, the stand - off between Israel and the Palestinians is as intractable as ever and this is a film with the ambition to explore dramatically why that might be, highlighting ideological divisions between both the hijackers and, perhaps more tellingly, between Israeli government ministers too.
On June 27, 1976, four hijackers — two West German, two Palestinian — seized control of an Air France plane flying from Athens to Paris.
Tension builds up as the hijackers set a deadline, isolate the Israeli passengers and wait to see if Rabin might respect their demands but with lack of suspense or drama, the seven days pass off on a flat - note.
After a week of tense standoffs (during which time some of the hostages were let go), with the hijackers demanding the release of dozens of imprisoned Palestinian militants in exchange for the hostages, the Israeli government sent a unit to Entebbe on a rescue mission.
The script by Gregory Burke puts a great deal of the emphasis on the hijackers and their motivations.
A group of passengers attack the hijackers using kitchen utensils and other objects on the plane.
WHAT: While on a routine trip around the Horn of Africa, Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) orders his crew to practice prevention tactics against possible hijackers, only for the drill to become a real - world situation when a group of Somali pirates (led by Barkhad Abdi) boards the commercial freighter and takes Phillips hostage.
The generally easygoing and scarcely defined crew puts up as much a fight as they can in hiding and it's enough to send the hijackers away on the ship's covered lifeboat.
The foundation is named after Beamer, one of the passengers on Flight 93, the plane that crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001, killing all aboard, after passengers struggled with hijackers.
The FBI may have finally given up on finding famous hijacker D.B. Cooper, but he'll always remain one of history's worst skydivers.
The work, which fuses contemporary art making styles with traditionally Islamic motifs, quietly ruminates on the nature of war and terror (two of the artist's former classmates were hijackers).
Artist Statement «Honoring the brave passengers of United Airlines Flight 93, who stopped hijackers from reaching their target during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.»
He argues that ten of the named 9/11 hijackers are still alive and on the big day had their identities usurped by men trained by the US military and the CIA.
Well people disagree on who are the trolls and hijackers.
In case you haven't read Churchill's piece, (see The Volokh Conspiracy for a link), Churchill called it «Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens» and wrote that the hijackers had:
Researchers have found out that certain Bose and Sonos speakers have been hacked, and the hijackers are playing strange and creepy sounds on the devices.
Now if any BHO, extension, add - on, toolbar or plugin gets installed on your browser with malicious intent, you could well label that piece of software as a Browser Hijacker.
A version of this article appears in print on February 2, 2017, on Page B8 of the New York edition with the headline: How to Defend Your Home From Internet Hijackers.
The utility of any good browser is undermined by potentially unwanted software and browser hijackers that change your browser settings like the home page, search page as well as throws up popups or go on to install toolbars or more dangerous malware -LSB-...]
An aggressive browser hijacker has been zeroing in on Mac users lately.
Read this article to learn what goals this hijacker pursues and how to get rid of it on Mac OS X.
The high - tech hijacker need only gain access to the Wi - Fi network the machine is on.
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