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Sentence Examples Police today renewed their appeal for witnesses after post office robbers hijacked a driving test car. Abstract nouns are all liable to be hijacked and twisted, by people of all political ideas. In strictly military terms, a guided missile is little different from a kamikaze or a hijacked passenger jet. It's as if all of American Jewry, in its multifaceted glory, had been hijacked by the Likud. The film had the conspicuous raggedness of a work hijacked by circumstance. Thanks to the wide boys, spivs, spin doctors and hereditary idiots who have hijacked a once great Australian institution. They'll then have their photo taken after they've landed the plane they hijacked. As beneficiaries of government largesse, these individuals have somehow hijacked the American Dream. The two communities coexisted until 1835, when a group of Maoris hijacked a British ship in Wellington and sailed it to the Chathams. The Ministry of Defence confirmed an RAF Tornado F3 fighter would have been scrambled if the plane had been hijacked. Should we allow our cultural heritage to be hijacked by a handful of self-righteous pedagogical censors? These cameras may have been launched with improved road safety in mind but they've been hijacked for mercenary reasons. This clause, he said, would give the military the legal right to shoot down a hijacked plane. It was hijacked by one person who took over the meeting and misinterpreted the facts to scare people. What if a hijacked plane hit a nuclear power plant, what if bioterrorists infected burger bars, what if we were flooded with smallpox? It was in 1980-something when that fine journalist boldly hijacked the corporate high-flyer's helicopter. All the tables outside pubs will already have been hijacked by extended families nibbling and picnicking, which is just unpleasant. The Consortium is attempting to label you as a deranged rogue who hijacked an armed ship. In a separate incident in the tribal areas yesterday, gunmen hijacked an official van and took hostage its two occupants. A dangerous armed thief, who hijacked a car in Egham, and committed a further six offences, has been jailed for six-and-a-half-years. Show More Sentences Their Subaru car was hijacked by the armed gang while returning to Charleroi last Friday prior to the start of the Bianchi Rally in Belgium. She remembered the war, which was thrust upon her father, King Dahir, just because some pirates had hijacked a ship belonging to the Caliph. It involves chasing and seizing a supposedly hijacked ship and rescuing its crew members. In the end, they hijacked commercial aircrafts without detection or interdiction. They hijacked vehicles, even UN convoys, and staged kidnappings for ransom. We hijacked the best seats in the house, the front row of the balcony, where I waved my multicolored boa and mauve lace covered hand at him. If the WTO is to be a democratic institution, it must not allow its green room to be hijacked by a few. It also helps to prevent the discussion being hijacked suddenly by a questioner in a totally different direction. He has grasped the fact that it is absurd for conservatives to have allowed issues of conservationism to be hijacked by the left. Where Pringle is even-handed in showing how extremists have hijacked the debate over GM food, Nestle is an unapologetic partisan. They say devices that would allow air traffic controllers to override the controls of a hijacked plane are close to development. You really get the feeling that uncontrollable supernatural forces have hijacked her life. More gunmen moved through the area in a hijacked police vehicle, firing indiscriminately. The air force forced a light plane to land on Saturday after an emergency signal was picked up indicating the aircraft had been hijacked. No matter what cause those who hijacked these flights were fighting for, their tactics are unacceptable and ineffectual. On their journey back with the clock, their van is hijacked and the lads are locked in a pigsty. Among those who died in the hijacked planes were a television producer, an actor, sports officials, media figures and captains of industry. Only that way can both adherents and innocents alike learn the wages of allowing their country to be hijacked by agents of intolerance. And even Mr Hague's attempts to buy a bunch of flowers for his wife were hijacked. Almost 3,000 people died three years ago when four hijacked airliners were crashed. Show More Sentences Just hearing they found the car that was hijacked in the garage where I park my car is a little freaky. The planes are all hijacked between 7.45 and 8.10 am eastern daylight time. Liberal activists responded with dire warnings that America was in danger of being hijacked by the religious right. They fear a hijacked oil tanker could be rigged with explosives or a radioactive dirty bomb could be smuggled ashore in a shipping container. To be fair, the horrid genius of the attacks was that no one could have predicted that hijacked airliners would be used as guided missiles. It was taken a few hours after terrorists hijacked four commercial jets and turned them into guided missiles that killed thousands of Americans. In 2001, two terrified women bank workers were hijacked in their car at gunpoint as they drove to work at the same bank. Firstly, because there is a crisis in the reformist parties internationally, people feel that their traditional home has been hijacked by neo-liberals. If this force is hijacked by the likes of this man and those who vilify trade unionists emerging from the rubble of a tyranny, then there really is no hope at all. A salad with a sugar-beet mousseline fades against its contemporaries, and a beautifully roasted quail is almost hijacked by too many highfalutin buddies. It is also less likely to be hijacked by frivolous requests or by demands for unrealistically large quantities of material by one particular lobby group. Eliot and Snake end up thrown together by circumstances, struggling with each other on a hijacked plane while the red digital display on the bomb counts down to zero. A truckload of plutonium waste has been hijacked on the waterfront. We, meanwhile, struggle to din some culture into our own young people whose aspirations have been hijacked by the consumerism of big corporations. Both black boxes from the hijacked aircraft have also been recovered. That was a hijacked shipment of old banknotes on its way to be burned. A commendable campaign against an ill-considered planning decision seems to have been hijacked by a bunch of tree-hugging show-offs with a childish obsession with fancy dress. I've hijacked your car and forced you to drive me to Florida. This leads to the question of why the air force failed to scramble its fighter jets as soon as it received news that four planes had been hijacked. The robbers hijacked a passing car but were chased and eventually caught. Show More Sentences It will also be ensured that transponders, which signal the plane's whereabouts, cannot be turned off as they were in the planes that were hijacked. An early chase scene involving a hijacked car-carrier is the third big chase scene to show up this summer, but easily stands out as the season's best. Therefore, it is imperative to prevent the fight for freedom and peace, dignity and justice being hijacked by the double dealers and slick saboteurs. They made off with an undetermined amount, then hijacked the bus outside. It is about a desire on the part of those that have hijacked the American government to create a permanent war machine abroad, and a proto-fascist state at home. Scores of men and women, masked and wearing bomb belts, burst out of the vehicles, hijacked in neighbouring Ingushetia, and into the playground with guns blazing. What has been made obvious to them is that their government has been hijacked by a bunch of crooks whose dirty money controls the entire electoral process. At a time when the 'No Surrender' slogan has been hijacked by extremist groups, no right-thinking supporter will join in. In modern times, ships and airplanes are hijacked for political reasons as well. Police are still searching for the gunmen who hijacked the minibus carrying school pupils taking two of the children with them. Nine shells were fired from a Mark 10 mortar which was bolted onto the back of a hijacked Ford van in Crossmaglen. On the morning of September 11, 2001, nineteen men hijacked four airliners all bound for California. He sailed with three ships for the Caribbean via Sierra Leone, hijacked a Portuguese slave ship and sold the 300 slaves from it in Santo Domingo. The defendants hijacked a plane in order to escape death at the hands of the Iraqi authorities. Gradually, the protests became smaller after being hijacked by groups who saw them as a way of reviving 1990s anti-communism. The ticket fiasco typifies the way they have been hijacked by jobsworths and junketeers. Paul McKenna returned to his roots in local radio yesterday as he hijacked Metro Radio's drive-time show for a hypnotic 30 minutes. But experts were amazed at how no fewer than four planes were able to be hijacked at the same time. The hijacked plane arrived in Pyongyang on April 3 that year, after spending three days at the Kimpo airport in Seoul. A BRITISH cargo ship was hijacked by Somalian pirates using two small rowing boats yesterday. Show More Sentences But it was hijacked by the country's Black Bloc militant group, who swarmed into the streets to attack police. Madiba was a man of the people but tragically his passing has been hijacked by unnecessary sideshows and controversies. Meeting you at the door, Scowcroft explains that a group of terrorists have hijacked a Lloyd Aero Boliviano 727 bound for Miami from La Paz. The pilot of the hijacked airliner described the hijacker as a jilted husband. The bulk carrier was loaded with aluminium en route to Jebel Ali from Australia on April 1 when the pirates hijacked it. It should not be hijacked by those who use football as an excuse to behave thuggishly under a club badge, be it Villa, Blues or the Baggies. Savorani, from Imola, hijacked a jet in 1999 and tried to commandeer a train the year before. Here, he plays a convict finally freed from jail who gets trapped on a transport plane that's been hijacked by psychopathic crims. In ego-mindedness you can become hijacked by feelings of fight or flight in the guts, which stiffen your body against the negative reactions you anticipate. The Emperor's gold has been hijacked, and every Kung Fu warrior, assassin and hired gun in China will battle through the streets of Jungle Village to claim the treasure. Indeed, some believe the Elysium plot has been hijacked from the Japanese manga series Battle Angel Alita that Cameron has long had on his back burner. On September 11, 2001, two of four hijacked planes were flown into the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, and the towers collapsed. In fact, as some reviewers have pointed out, the launch of my new book on crime is a case in point, hijacked to confect a row, rather than carefully explore important issues. But the Spice Boys and Little Italy were hijacked by a bouncing Czech, a floundering Frenchman and an eccentric referee in this Anfield bone-shaker. The cargo vessel, MV Albedo, on which Kumar was a sailor, had been hijacked 1,500 km off the coast of Somalia while sailing from the United Arab Emirates to Kenya. They hijacked The Malaspina Castle from two small rowing boats. Large ships cannot therefore be hijacked without being detected. Experts fear air pirates with flying knowledge hijacked the Kuala Lumpur to Beijing flight and diverted it towards the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Examples from Classical Literature Moneybags Sir Tom Cowie will no longer bankroll Mr Cameron and his cronies after seeing the party he loves hijacked by privileged Old Etonians. In April, the Plymouth-based ship disrupted a gang who had hijacked an Indianflagged boat, taken the crew hostage and were using the vessel as a pirate mother ship. Find more words! 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