Sentences with phrase «number of terrorist attacks»

Ricky Church reviews the first season of 24: Legacy... 24: Legacy's inaugural season ended earlier this week, bringing a close to former Army Ranger Eric Carter's stressful day to stop a number of terrorist attacks.

Ever since the USA declared the «war on terror» around the globe, the number of terrorist attacks worldwide has increased, not fallen.

According to the Global Terrorism Database, the number of terrorist attacks with fatalities in Western Europe has recently started to rise for the first time since the 1970s: Source: Global Terrorism...

Though the security fence around the West Bank has substantially reduced the number of terrorist attacks, Hamas and Islamic Jihad continue to launch rocket attacks from Gaza.

It has been these organisations, not the military, which have been responsible for limiting the number of terrorist attacks in Britain and America.

There'd been a number of terrorist attacks on churches, bombings of churches, continued instances of churches being closed down, so this has been building up for some years.

The city has seen a mounting number of terrorist attacks in recent years, including last year's coordinated gun and bomb attacks targeting bars, restaurants, a concert hall and the Stade de France, which left 129 dead and hundreds injured.

Not exact matches

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

Today, crime has fallen to its lowest levels in a generation, the wars have wound down, and despite current fears, the number of domestic terrorist attacks has declined sharply from the 1960s and 1970s.

Those fatalities from terrorist attacks compiled by START include attacks perpetrated by a number of actors beyond just what they refer to as «jihadi - inspired extremists.»

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

There have in fact been a good number of Buddhist terrorist attacks on Christians and Tamil's within Sri Lanka.

If you add up the number of those who die in terrorist attack since Islam was born, it is much greater than the number you just posted.

It is obvious that the number of terror attacks on the American public by the criminal enterprise operation out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave have been steadily increasing at an alarming rate... oh... those weren't the terrorists you were writing about?

So in «certain belief systems» moral restraint is shown by minimizing the number of deaths in a terrorist attack?

After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, a significant number of children of divorced or single parents lost the person who was essentially their only parent, while others lost a parent they had already lost once to divorce.

For example, in 2006 Brian Burgoon argued that social policies offset preference for terrorism and countries with generous welfare provisions suffer fewer attacks and have a lower number of home - grown terrorists.

The terrorists» who were said to have numbered almost a hundred, reportedly started the attack by launching IEDS on positions of the troops and followed with shooting from different angles all in a bid to confuse the troops but the soldiers aware of the tactic, stood their ground and fought back gallantly.

«The growing spread of ISIS and the increased frequency of attacks world - wide heightens our concern that New York, which remains the number one target for terrorist groups, should apply the lessons learned in the wake of September 11, 2001, to help New Yorkers have a better chance to live in peace and safety.

Police commissioner Bill Bratton said it's possible New York City could see a coordinated series of terrorist attacks similar to the ones in Paris Friday, and stressed the Big Apple remains their number one target.

The Nigerian Army said last night that remnants of Boko Haram terrorists in their numbers attacked troops location at Rann, Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno State and that after a heavy gunfire confrontation, 16 of the terrorists were -LSB-...]

The Nigerian Army said last night that remnants of Boko Haram terrorists in their numbers attacked troops location at Rann, Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno State and that after a heavy gunfire confrontation, 16 of the terrorists were killed.

A number of factors led to Bloomberg's ultimate victory in the general election, after a campaign that was largely overshadowed by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, with 50.3 % of the vote (to Green's 47.9 %).

However, the number of people diagnosed with trauma - and stressor - related disorders following the 9/11 attacks only increased approximately four per cent in the period following the attacks (as compared with 16 % following the Breivik attacks), even though the number of casualties was far higher in this attack than in the Breivik attacks — almost 3,000 people died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

«Breivik terrorist attacks in Norway led to mental illness in Denmark: The number of Danes diagnosed with trauma — and stressor - related disorders (such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-RRB- increased substantially following the terrorist attacks carried out by Anders Breivik in Norway in 2011.»

After a small drop following the terrorist attacks of 2001, the number of foreign scientists arriving has rebounded.

Nevadans like Democratic Senator Harry Reid, who has doggedly opposed the Yucca Mountain repository, say it makes more sense to leave such waste where it is than to risk transporting it across the nation's public highways and rail system, during which accidents or even terrorist attacks could expose untold numbers of Americans to radioactivity.

The colorless, odorless and safe gases have a number of research uses, from modeling how airborne contaminants might move through urban canyons to help first responders plan their response to potential terrorist attacks and accidents to locating leaks in underground gas pipes.

Cancer is plaguing a growing number (a total of 2,509 cases) of first responders and rescuers who worked at ground zero after the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

(There is, however, a final title card praising U.S. security agencies for the number of potential terrorist attacks they have prevented — an odd thing to mention considering the bumbling and easily duped manner in which they are depicted in the story proper.)

I've read a number of novels about 9/11, including Don DeLillo's Falling Man, a novel that focused on the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on one New York family.

Allianz said that the increase would bring both countries closer to the number of American travelers who visited in summer 2015, prior to the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris.

It would «take a limited number of terrorists, small amount of explosives, some basic hand tools» to conduct «a coordinated attack along just a few key nodes along that pipeline in the span of just really minutes,» Cooper said in an interview.

Only roughly half of terrorist attacks include a fatality, so the true number of those impacted is surely higher, but it's impossible to imagine the total could approach DARA's climate figures.

Second, the terrorist attacks in March 2016 in Brussels probably discouraged a number of potential applicants from the Middle East, with the result that those who persevere have in fact good chances to succeed.

The truth is that while protests, civil uprisings, terrorist attacks, and any number of violence or danger may be occurring in one portion of a country and not all over the country.

Allianz said that the rise would actually bring these cities closer to the number of Americans who had arrived in summer 2015, before the deadly November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris.

It can be due to any number of reasons like a medical emergency or critical illness, the sudden demise of a family member, natural calamity or bad weather conditions like cyclone or snowfall, or even a hijack or terrorist attack.

For example, you may be forced to leave you residence due to mold, broken gas lines, water leaks, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, general repair, or a number of other reasons.

Terrorists and extremists are creating growing numbers of safe havens on the «dark net» to plot future attacks, raise funds and recruit...

Terrorists and extremists are creating growing numbers of safe havens on the «dark net» to plot future attacks, raise funds and recruit new followers, new research reveals.