How To Use Hijack In A Sentence

What if a hijacked plane hit a nuclear power plant, what if bioterrorists infected burger bars, what if we were flooded with smallpox?
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
He rued that they were hijacking his Utopian concepts to unleash "a free-for-all fucking epidemic".
The audio, which hijacks your cardiac tempo as only ominous electronica amped up in the dark can do, mixes recordings of two timepieces of erstwhile global authority.
Authorities say when they had last recontacted the pilots, the pilots answers were so vague, they were ordered to take the plane through a series of unnecessary maneuvers to prove it was under their control, not hijacked. CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2009

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A peaceful demonstration had been hijacked by anarchists intent on causing trouble.
It hijacks the universalism of justice to serve partisan ideological ends.
Dear gott but did this thread ever get hijacked by a nonissue. McCain Strives For Bill Clinton Moment
The Republicans, in the face of Obama's ascendancy and the indefensibility of their policy decisions in the last eight years, have just pulled a desperation maneuver and hijacked what is perhaps the most important election in America's history by demoting it to an emotional cat-fight between pro-choice and pro-life women, over the one issue where neither side can be reasonable. Cintra Wilson: It's the Freedom, Stupid
They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.
Terrified relatives waiting to collect family in Manchester feared the airliner had been hijacked. The Sun
The plane landed in Germany, the hijacker was arrested, and served a prison sentence.
The hijackers kept the pilot on board the plane as hostage.
KING: ... describes him as the first leader of a Western major nation to suggest the suicide hijackers may have been motivated by what he described as the misguided policies of the rich and the powerful. CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2002
Vehicles were hijacked, set on fire and rolled into police lines. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
I've hijacked your car and forced you to drive me to Florida.
It also helps to prevent the discussion being hijacked suddenly by a questioner in a totally different direction.
Proposition 22, which defined marriage to be between a man and a woman and adopted by California voters on March 7, 2000 with 61.4% in favor, was hijacked along with the California Legislative Branch by the Tyrannical Justices of the California Supreme Court which legislated from the bench in direct violation of the California Constitution and managed to null the will of the people and declare Proposition 22 unconstitutional. California becomes second U.S. state to legalize gay marriage : Law is Cool
The man stole two cars, smashed into two vehicles, attempted to ram Garda patrol cars, reversed back into a Garda motorcyclist and attempted to hijack another car before being captured.
I think alot of that really doesn't matter ultimately.thermite, sharks with lasers, hijackers.
They hijacked vehicles, even UN convoys, and staged kidnappings for ransom.
There is no sign of a let - up in the hijack crisis.
In the end, they hijacked commercial aircrafts without detection or interdiction.
The hijackers kept the pilot as a hostage on board the plane.
By hijacking the legitimate connection to a traditional wired computer network, hackers might be able to exploit the soft underbelly of corporate networks and launch even more invasive attacks.
It took us three days by bullock cart to reach Delhi and there was no point in hijacking that vehicle.
Yesterday, half a million people met at Revolution Plaza to bid farewell to the sublieutenant who was killed by one of these criminals who hijacked a boat to travel to the United States. Fidel Castro's 8 Aug News Conference
He tried to hijack the guard into handing him the keys of the safe.
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
Two teams of Marines left their ship at 5am and sped towards the hijacked vessel in inflatable boats. Times, Sunday Times
The hijacking became a trigger point for military action.
A Korean airliner was hijacked by two passengers and forced to fly to Tashkent.
Yoo and Bybee aren't responsible for the government committing the crimes that these two goons were hired to so-called legalise, for the Presidential administration, the Congress, the DoJ, ... always know very well that there was NO way to officially legalise these crimes without usurping (or hijacking) the U.S. Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Headlines
The documents showed some entered the country in the days around the suicide hijackings.
When Dubbya arranged a cosy billet in the TX Air National Guard; when Cheyney had “other priorities”; when Donald “You go to war with the army you have” Rumsfeld never saw fit to personally smell the gunsmoke; when any number of “chicken hawk” neo cons were allowed to hijack national security, it was patriotism? Obama’s ‘Dream Team’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Who needs to spend years training pilots to hijack aircraft, when you can crash them with a few clicks of a keyboard? Computing
I suggest that because the emotions in chessboxing are hugely more powerful than those in chess, so the chance of a "neural hijacking" is far more likely!! ChessBase News
He's really a cop going undercover to find the perpetrators of a series of daring hijackings.
I am, but you appear not to be because every time you mention 'science' and 'evidence' you hijack the warrant those concepts enjoy on behalf of an unargued for naturalist worldview. A New Weapon Against Freedom and ID: Volksverhetzung
In the second, Whisky Galore, the thirsty inhabitants of a remote Scottish village hijack the cargo of a whisky-laden merchantman wrecked on their shores during the second world war and defy the authorities to repossess it. Whisky Galore – review
In a separate incident in the tribal areas yesterday, gunmen hijacked an official van and took hostage its two occupants.
The hijacker comman-deered the plane on a domestic flight.
He is the world's most prolific television hijacker having disrupted around 20,000 live link-ups, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
It appears from what we know that the hijackers were skilled pilots.
Investigators say that some hijackers have resorted to cloning an entire company by incorporating under a similar name.
Mr Sharif and six co - accused are facing charges of hijacking, attempted murder, kidnapping and terrorism.
The hijack is the latest in a string of pirate attacks off the Somali coast in recent months. The Guardian World News
The hijackers were armed with hand grenades.
A lot of people here identified as red-letter Christians, who believe the words of Jesus have been hijacked by worldly authorities. Rapture Ready!
Unfortunately, just watching the address bar on your Internet browser won't inform you of any hijacks.
It appears that originally free-living green bacteria were hijacked into plant cells, where they eventually evolved into what we now call chloroplasts. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Police are also investigating the gang's possible links to three hijackings and another murder, all in Mdantsane.
It involves chasing and seizing a supposedly hijacked ship and rescuing its crew members.
He accused the government of trying to hijack his bill and decided to go ahead with the second reading of it after receiving cross-party support. Times, Sunday Times
He made a desperate attempt to hijack a plane.
He states that the art world "has been hijacked by the very same forces that poisoned the world of finance: herding, greed and short-termism leading to asset inflation, market collusion, lack of substance and too many self-possessed individuals. Brian D. Cohen: The One-Percenter Art World
According to the International Maritime Organization, in the past 12 months, near the Somali coast 67 ships were hijacked, 714 crew members are currently held hostage by pirates.
They Pakistanis have stoutly denied any association with the hijacking.
It seems as if there will be no penalty for foreign abettors of the hijackers.
I guess I should also apologise to Nick D' Angelo for hijacking the Beats Per Minute show in 1989.
The adverse publicity generated by the hijacking was the last thing the airline needed.
Nessip is convinced that the hijack was a setup, but the authorities are too busy blaming him for losing Leedy to listen to his theories, and Nessip is suspended. Home Theater Forum
It was the first British commercial aircraft hijacked. Times, Sunday Times
But the book was hijacked from the heroine by the antagonist and carted off in another direction altogether. Fantastic Women: Lois McMaster Bujold (part the 1st)
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) also complained that the effort to garner key votes had allowed a handful of senators to "hijack" the process over a few parochial issues. House-Senate panel works to move financial regulation bill to Obama
Armed gangs have hijacked lorries.
The Dean led DNC along with his cronies from the socialist left of the party have hijacked this nomination, but in the end they shall see that the "uneducated whites" as they are called are a lot smarter than to fall for this fiasco. Clinton takes on TV pundits at distillery stop in Kentucky
For the congresswoman to attempt to hijack the noble, rationalist legacy of Britain’s greatest 20th-century peacetime premier for her own campaign is regurgitatively infuriating.
During the first and second wars, Chechen rebels sought to acquire radioactive and biological materials, plotted to hijack a nuclear submarine and cased military nuclear installations.
Star in Isaiah 14: 12 The Book of Isaiah has the following passage: christian on the run in egypt 'aida' brings ancient egypt to tuacahn as egypt's mubarak comes to washington, labor unr est surges at home big names left out of egypt squad captive egyptians defeat somali pirates, sail free egypt labor strikes point to desperate conditions egypt restoring historic synagogue egypt: 26 hizbullah suspects stand trial egypt: 34 fishermen free months after hijacking egypt: 34 fishermen freed months after somalia hijacking egypt: israeli freeze must include east jerusalem egypt: us to release mideast peace-talk plans in sept. egyptian crew members overpower WN.com - Photown News
Some beliefs are the hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic, others are the products of egoism, biases, prejudices or preferences. Dr T.P.Chia
They say devices that would allow air traffic controllers to override the controls of a hijacked plane are close to development.
Who needs to spend years training pilots to hijack aircraft, when you can crash them with a few clicks of a keyboard? Computing
I haven't tried Vera in a vacuum yet, but I'm expecting to be hijacked by salvagers next week, so I'll letcha know. Vera
But the aircraft is hijacked by the pilots and flown to a deserted volcanic island. The Sun
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dresden, the Blitz, Coventry and Caen, the gas chambers and the gulags – with, more recently Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wars in Africa – demonstrate, in particular, our leaders' propensities to hijack science for wholesale murder. Steven Pinker is wrong – we live in the bloodiest times ever | letters
We, meanwhile, struggle to din some culture into our own young people whose aspirations have been hijacked by the consumerism of big corporations.
Were they plotting to hijack a jet? The Sun
The hijackers seemed anxious not to harm anyone.
The hijackers threatened to kill all the passengers if their demands were not met.
Or, contrariwise, if you want to blow up a building with nanothermite, then concoct a story about terrorists with nanothermite instead of hijackers. 1000 Architects and Engineers
Investigators say at least two and possibly as many as eight of the hijackers had fraudulent visas.
If all else fails, the mafia hijack transports of cigarettes and alcohol and then ship the stolen goods into Britain.
It would have been entirely permissible to arrest the hijackers of the four aircraft used as weapons.
During the night more than five vehicles were hijacked and set on fire and police received numerous reports of armed men on the streets. Times, Sunday Times
While the existence of spyware is now something many Internet users have grown to expect, it is hard to imagine the shock when you realise that a community-built program that you are a part of has been hijacked. PeerGuardian hijacked
‘Looks-wise, you're perfect,’ Craigy-boy said, hijacking an interview with the Mirror and using it as an open address to the actress.
Lastly, guns are more useful as a deterrent than as a tool to subdue hijackers.
He's actually trying to stop the pilot hijacking the jet. Times, Sunday Times
Therefore, understanding how your brain became so vigilant and wary, and so easily hijacked by alarm, is the first step toward gaining more control over that ancient circuitry. Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: Confronting the Negativity Bias
The hijackers kept the pilot on board the plane as hostage.
But Tadeusz Patzek, a professor who is the chairman of the department of petroleum and geosystems engineering at the University of Texas, argues that the discussion has been hijacked by people who don't know what they're talking about. Each day, another way to define worst-case for oil spill
“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.” A largely spoiler-free review of “Battlestar Galactica” prequel “Caprica”
Icann has a new policy about domain name transfers which will make hijacking domains much easier.
The three run some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries New York has ever seen.
This is a threat greater than hijacking or suicide hijacking an aircraft.
You cannot travel if you provoke discontentedness and want to travel through legal means, but if you hijack an airplane or a motorboat or jump on a raft you get what you want. Holds News Conference
There are probably copyright issues as well in terms of hijacking original works for profit.
They made off with an undetermined amount, then hijacked the bus outside.
Some beliefs are the hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic, others are the products of egoism, biases, prejudices or preferences. Dr T.P.Chia
That it has been hijacked by sub-culture radio pundits with no azimuth is now more than just a saying, it is a fact. Obama political arm goes on offense
Police sources said the planned protest by students and lecturers over education cuts and tuition fees of up to 9,000 was hijacked by known anarchists. The Sun
What you're listening to is a half-cut helium-voiced midget slurring the tale of the time he and Charles Bukowski drunkenly hijacked a diesel locomotive and drove it from downtown Los Angeles to Pacoima.
In the game it is essential to hijack cars to move around. Times, Sunday Times
One of the things that irritate me most in the world is how conservative authoritarians have hijacked the word ‘family’.
Therefore, it is imperative to prevent the fight for freedom and peace, dignity and justice being hijacked by the double dealers and slick saboteurs.
· Whose invasion fleet has to hijack unhardened airplanes to send an invasion team of 18. Scared, broke, and still marching to stupid wars...
The same method also underpins changes to account security information, primarily designed to help users recover access to a hijacked or expired account. Computing
The document, drawn up for commanders of the European Union anti-piracy force patrolling off Somalia, also reportedly said that hijackers are avoiding ships sailing under certain flags, including Britain's.
Guest_HiJack: banks aren't loanin anymore havent u heard Guest_HiJack: and one is about to run out as we speak ... Idaho Falls Today! Local Information.
The hijackers were heavily disguised.
Whitelists won't catch spammers who have hijacked good known addresses, but will catch spammers who haven't.
The public power belongs to everyone and when majorities hijack it for sectarian purposes they act oppressively.
The hijacker was handed over to the French police.
Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.
The hijackers used fanatical certainty, misplaced religious faith, and dehumanising hatred to purge themselves of the human instinct for empathy.
Its deliberations have been hijacked by a tendency that exemplifies zealotry more than traditionalism. Times, Sunday Times
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Pirates seized a ship with 24 crew members off the port of Aden on Monday and Mogadishu traders said seven additional vessels headed for the Somali capital had been hijacked over the past two days. RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds
The hard-drinking cowgirl brand that she'd spent years building was being hijacked.
The hijackers then pistol-whipped the flight crew inside the cockpit and ordered the pilot to fly to Algiers.
These rules made sense in an era when hijackers demanded money or held hostages for political purposes.
A bug in Movable Type allows spammers to hijack the ‘Mail This Entry’ blog feature.
The hijacker was handed over to the French police.
New security advice was issued, including a warning of an increased risk to aircraft of hijackings.
Terrorism experts said the hijackers could have armed themselves with nothing more than pocket knives.
The hijackers threatened to kill one passenger every hour if their demands were not met.
a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack
The whereabouts of the five hijackers of an airliner are unknown.
For all of the handwringing and concern trolling and conserva-snarking about how his progressivism is part of a cynical bamboozlement or hijacking of the left, leading to nothing but tears and disappointment, Obama has in the first 48 hours of his presidency proven to be astonishingly progressive. No More White Lies, The President Is Black | ATTACKERMAN
And conversely, for every one of the best impulses of our souls, there is a demon waiting to hijack us and use us.
The airliner is hijacked and lands on a remote island, which is undetected by any radar. The Sun
Added to that, driverless cars could be hijacked, with the autonomous vehicles causing havoc. The Sun
Despite the flurry of action as we hijack the room, he continues to thumb out a furious text message and refuses to say hello.
There, using a mock Boeing aircraft, he claimed he was taught how to smuggle guns onto aircraft and how to hijack an aircraft.
Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max's taxicab, and Max becomes collateral - an expendable person in the wrong place at the wrong time.
They are in direct contact with the hijackers.
Were they plotting to hijack a jet? The Sun
Airlines including El Al are developing guns which will disable hijackers but not pierce the skin of an aircraft.
Here a place with hardly a history hijacks a past.
The plot was something about a gang of hijackers who stole truckloads of computer terminals while the truck driver was in a roadside cafe wolfing down dinner.
Weirdness | Did the mysterious hijacker known as Dan Cooper -- called "D.B. Cooper" by the news media -- take his name from a French-Canadian comic series about the adventures of an RCAF test pilot? Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
I stole a look at one of the hijackers, who could only have been about 17, with acne scars on his jaw and neck.
All the networks pre-empted their regular schedules to broadcast news of the hijacking.
The backlash could include bombings, kidnappings, plane hijackings and even beheadings.
Bands of gunmen have hijacked food shipments and terrorized relief workers.
And as they used to say in Moscow, ` It's no acci -- no accident that the great majority of the hijackers come from those countries. ' What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
Almost 3,000 people died three years ago when four hijacked airliners were crashed.
He made a desperate attempt to hijack a plane.
The hijackers released the hostage two days later because they got the ransom money.
The hijackers drove without proper licences, violated immigration rules, left a plane sitting on an active runway and developed the unmarketable skill of knowing only how to make turns with a jumbo jet, not how to land it.
His ship was accused of involvement in a piratic act in 1436, and he was personally accused of conspiring to hijack another ship, of which he later became the owner.
Two men hijacked a jet travelling to Paris and demanded $125 000.
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's stuffed with dumplings, foie gras, and truffles).
No corporation is safe from the dark satire of this billboard hijacker, who has donned New York City with obese fast food mascots, cigarette mascots in coffins, and slogans such as "Support Our CEOs."
In 1986, hijackers seize a U.S. jumbo jet at Karachi's airport.
If the threat is hijacking, then the countermeasure doesn't protect against all the myriad of ways people can subdue the pilot and crew.
There have already been claims that the whole site has been hijacked by bleeding-heart liberals. The Sun
André Steyn owes his current wellbeing to his mobile phone after the selfless device took a bullet for the merchant during an attempted hijack.
In my opinion, one of the more insidious is the hijacked account scam. Round 39: Sallie Mae vs eBay/Paypal - The Consumerist
The man in the queue before me gets aggressive; trying to operate his Crackberry and pour sugar, he believes the immigrants have come here on a mission, traitorous codes embedded in their brownness, sleepers who've hijacked jobs the idle poor should embrace. Gang of Four: free EP download
One of the men tried to hijack a car, but the woman driver managed to raise the alarm and the man was held until police arrived to arrest him.
The hijack ended with the release of all the plane's passengers unharmed.
The Wardrobe, St Peter's Square, FriMarc RowlandsElectronic disco dudes Dollop's hijacking of the rather unglamorously named CitiPost Warehouse which was formerly known as simply the Scrutton Street Warehouse sadly comes to an end this Friday evening. Clubs picks of the week
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.
I even considered hijacking a couple of prints and jamming some waterfalls and sunsets in there to give myself a shot at the prize.
The hijackers kept the pilot on board the plane as hostage.
There's never a good time to hijack the Constitution for political reasons.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't think the word hijack was ever used. CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Hijack Victims Due to Return to Saudi Arabia Today - October 15, 2000
Let us not forget that this was a multiple hijacking, of which there have been hundreds over the decades since commercial flight became popular.
The front page is devoted to the continuing saga of the hijack.
Two weeks later, passengers on another Greyhound bus were credited with averting disaster in Utah after they helped thwart an alleged hijacker.
Cars were hijacked, buildings burnt. Times, Sunday Times
Next thing we know, he's hijacked a jet. Times, Sunday Times
He has been slowly hijacking the machinery of government and developing parallel non-democratic governance structures.
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.
And we have to answer that the politicians and their fixers are taking our money, hijacking our democracy, stifling debate and treating voters with contempt.
What about the hijacking of threads by halbert holmert and the muteness of TP? Think Progress » Pelosi: Congress Will Not Fund Escalation If Bush Does Not Justify It
The hijackers refuse to yield to demands to release the passengers.
The gang has also been linked to assaults on two researchers, a hijacking and two attempted hijackings.
A total of 77 crew members were taken Sunday in the hijackings 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers) east of Somalia in the Indian Ocean – the farthest from the Somali coast pirates have ever attacked, the EU Naval Force said. Somali Pirates Seize 3 Thai Ships With 77 Crew
For years they smirked at the boorishness of patriotism, until it occurred to them: Why scoff when you can hijack?
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.
If it is approved, it will then award the death penalty to any aider and abettor of a hijacking as well. Indian Cabinet Approves Tougher Hijacking Law
A truckload of plutonium waste has been hijacked on the waterfront.
He immediately cancelled his Siberian vacation upon hearing news of the hijack, and set to deal with the incident.
On their journey back with the clock, their van is hijacked and the lads are locked in a pigsty.
Tokcan was arrested after the hijack, but escaped from jail the following year.
In a loud voice, tell him that this is a hijack and that you are abducting him.
• Please don't "hijack" comment threads to controversial topics. Boing Boing Moderation Policy - Boing Boing
The airliner is hijacked and lands on a remote island, which is undetected by any radar. The Sun
Pirates fought over spoils at sea, and hijackers stole from each other on land.
Since that day, more than forty years ago, Greenspan has become the figurehead (not the "fountainhead" - figurehead) for a new form of "establishment radicalism," a white-collar extremism which that has hijacked American economic policy for the last thirty years. Greenspan's Testimony: Will the 'Maestro' Face the Music?
Mr. Kanthan does not want to discuss the script lest somebody hijacks it and makes the movie.
Experts believe the goal of the hijacking was to fool users into divulging personal financial data such as credit card numbers and account usernames and passwords.
So I hijacked the ship of the guy who kidnapped me.
The regime has also promised to unleash its security forces against any attempts to hijack the march. Times, Sunday Times
Don't fire!He hijacked a girl as a hostage.
The video shows hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Majed Moqed, each dressed conservatively in slacks and collared shirts, setting off metal detectors as they pass through security around 7: 18 a.m. 07/22/2004

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