10 sentences with 'terrorist'
Example sentences and phrases with the word terrorist and other words derived from it.
• « The emancipation of the serfs was the most significant reform spearheaded by a 19th century Russian tsar. It is therefore ironic that Alexander II was the only Tsar to be assassinated by a radical terrorist group. »
• « What had changed in the 1880s, however, was that there were terrorist groups, not just intellectuals guilty of discussing politics, and what virtually all intellectuals in Russian society (terrorist or not) believed was that meaningful change would require a significant, even radical, restructuring of Russian society. »
• « Among the organisers of the coup that had assassinated the king and queen was a group of Serb officers who created a terrorist group, the Black Hand. »
• « For months, the Russian nation was rocked by open rebellions at naval bases and in cities, and radical terrorist groups managed to take over certain neighbourhoods in the major metropolises of St. Petersburg and Moscow. Nikolai II finally agreed to allow a representative assembly, the Duma, to convene, and after months of fighting the army managed to regain control. »
• « These soldiers created far-right terrorist groups, launching attacks on prominent intellectuals who spoke out against the war (the leading French philosopher of the time, Jean-Paul Sartre, had his flat in Paris destroyed in a bomb attack). »
• « Charles de Gaulle temporarily appeased the French army, but when it became clear that he intended to pull France out of Algeria, a paramilitary terrorist group tried twice to assassinate him. »
• « Fueled by hatred of the United States for its continued support of Israel against the Palestinian demand for sovereignty and decades of US meddling in Middle East politics, the Al Qaeda terrorist group succeeded in the most audacious and destructive terrorist attacks in modern history. »
• « In turn, the shock waves of the Middle East conflict have reverberated around the world, inspiring the growth of international terrorist groups on the one hand and racist and Islamophobic political parties on the other. »
• « To cite only the most prominent examples, the 2002 US invasion of Iraq inadvertently led to a massive increase in recruitment for anti-Western terrorist organisations (many of which were drawn from disaffected EU citizens of Middle Eastern and North African descent). »
• « North states that he accepted the security system for his home because the terrorist Abu Nidal had threatened to kill him. »