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How to use the word foiled in a Sentence?

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This year, ISIS-Khorasan expanded its ambitions outside Afghanistan with a handful of cross-border rocket attacks against Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and a foiled plot in India, its ambitions for attacking the West — possibly including the Homeland — remains a top intelligence priority, notwithstanding the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan last August.

Christine Abizaid

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is what the West fears. All plots of the Zionists, the freemasons, and the children of evil against Turkey will be foiled.

Mehmet Salih Takil

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They were masked and spoke foreign languages which our fighters could not understand, we do not know who they were but we foiled them.

Abu Musab

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You see a terrorist group that has big ambitions for enormous and spectacular attacks, not just the types that we've seen foiled to date.

Mark Rowley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The government has just foiled an evil attempt at detribalization. The objective of these individuals, motivated by I don't know what, was to overthrow the democratically elected power, they envisaged using aerial firepower and they have for some weeks deliberately blocked (those military assets) in Niamey that I was pressing them to send to Diffa to the front for the struggle against Boko Haram.

President Mahamadou Issoufou

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We foiled a car bomb attack, we have no doubt the woman terrorist who drove the vehicle intended to reach Jerusalem.

Rafi Cohen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You have foiled the desperate attempt and satanic attitudes of the plotters and perpetrators of this condemned crime to inflame divisions and stir sectarian tensions and divide the unity of the Kuwaiti society, the international community should exert all their effort to avert and take legal action to dry up [ terrorism ] from its waters so countries and nations live in peace and security.

Sheikh Sabah

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Counter-terrorism forces foiled plots to carry out spectacular attacks against vital installations, including the Interior Ministry, security stations and civilian buildings in the capital Tunis, during the past three days, we arrested 32 terrorists from this group planning to attack targets in Tunis and other cities.

Mohammed Ali Aroui

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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