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Example sentences for "sabotage"

Lexicographically close words:
sabia; sabido; sabio; sable; sables; sabotaged; sabotaging; saboteur; saboteurs; saboth
  1. Warehouses are obviously the most promising targets but incendiary sabotage need not be confined to them alone.

  2. They afford a very vulnerable target for simple sabotage activities.

  3. Presumably this man would be able to devise methods of simple sabotage which would be appropriate to his own facilities.

  4. Simple sabotage may also have secondary results of more or less value.

  5. The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

  6. Their vulnerability to simple sabotage is very low.

  7. January 1944 This Simple Sabotage Field Manual Strategic Services (Provisional) is published for the information and guidance of all concerned and will be used as the basic doctrine for Strategic Services training for this subject.

  8. It also can be conveyed directly: statements praising the effectiveness of simple sabotage can be contrived which will be published by white radio, freedom stations, and the subversive press.

  9. A reasonable amount of humor in the presentation of suggestions for simple sabotage will relax tensions of fear.

  10. Nor were the subtler methods of sabotage forgotten in these demonstrations.

  11. Finally, sabotage is a word that expresses the whole philosophy and practice of revolutionary labor.

  12. Sabotage is a new word, but the practice itself is old.

  13. When his own turn to speak came, Tom used it to warn against possible sabotage attempts by the Brungarians.

  14. Any large-scale sabotage plot would be almost certain to include Swift Enterprises, America's most daring and advanced research center.

  15. This could touch off a whole epidemic of sabotage and other spy activity!

  16. If you're right, pal, it's the most fiendish sabotage I've ever heard of!

  17. In time perhaps they would learn to collapse steel bridges, sabotage rails, perforate the engines of motorcars if these should prove to be menaces to their race.

  18. But the more I think about these murderous acts of sabotage the less I understand the psychology behind them.

  19. The Communist International is not goading the Chinese Communists into the sabotage of Chiang and of national resistance.

  20. There was no trace of defeatism, sabotage of national defense, or obstruction to defensive war.

  21. It may be guarded even more completely after the sabotage tomorrow.

  22. And I shall also be able to tell you then about the sabotage at the power plant.

  23. After each sabotage job, they went through every house, into wine cellars, into attics.

  24. Old Tomaso told me that the underground has several times performed a little neat sabotage at this power station, stopping it for several days until repairs were made.

  25. He was going to find out about the sabotage at the power plant and pick up the German uniform from Tomaso—that was all.

  26. I’m sure Tomaso can get the sabotage work done all right,” he said, “so that the water will be shut off.

  27. They were drawing from guests by the millions, and from castmembers and from people who'd read the popular accounts of their struggle against the forces of petty jealousy and sabotage -- i.

  28. Sabotage is not going to do you any good.

  29. Those who are doing most of the complaining are not deliberately striving to sabotage the national war effort.

  30. Every little rumor which is intended to weaken our faith in our allies is like an actual enemy agent in our midst--seeking to sabotage our war effort.

  31. Sabotage is a species of guerrilla warfare, designed to foment the class struggle.

  32. The word sabotage is of French origin, and is used to describe any sort of deliberate action on the part of workmen which results in the destruction of the employer's property.

  33. The former were charged with taking excessive profits and having recourse to sabotage in order to upset the Revolution, while the latter were blamed for slackness and greed and for deriving selfish gains from the Revolution.

  34. It may come as a surprise to the reader to hear that at the 1917 St. Louis Convention of the Socialist Party the anti-sabotage and anti-direct action plank of the Constitution was dropped.

  35. Discontent, wrangles, fights, riots, civil discord and sabotage would be the order of the day till irrepressible rebellion had sounded the death-knell of Socialism.

  36. Active sabotage which consists in the damaging of goods or machinery.

  37. Other illustrations of sabotage may be of interest to the reader.

  38. Socialists who advocate sabotage or get into trouble in one way or another, especially in strikes, are often put into prison for their revolutionary talk or their violent methods.

  39. This call opened with the following paragraph: "The international situation and the crisis in the American Socialist Party; the sabotage the party bureaucracy has practised on the emergency national convention; the N.

  40. Maybe, he was thinking, he could slip into Launch Control and somehow sabotage the vehicle itself.

  41. So, he thought, you sabotage Thursday's shot and you nix their plot, whatever it is.

  42. A third possibility is for the invaded people to employ sabotage and inflict damage upon the invader in the belief that his invasion can be made so costly that it will be impossible for him to remain in the conquered territory.

  43. In August 1939 Von Neurath issued a proclamation warning against any acts of sabotage and stating that “the responsibility for all acts of sabotage is attributed not only to individual perpetrators but to the entire Czech population.

  44. They have attempted to sabotage the mechanisms of just vigilance and freedom.

  45. He was trying to sabotage a missile base, with several others.

  46. Once there was a case of sabotage and he could have sworn that nobody had the information that permitted it but himself and Miss Ross.

  47. Fighting sabotage when we little guys could take over in a week and make sabotage just plain foolish!

  48. But of course there were the orders that said he was a sabotage expert.

  49. When young Joe Kenmore came to Bootstrap to install pilot gyros in the Platform he hadn't bargained for sabotage or murder or love.

  50. So it will be assumed that you are at the pushpot field for counter-sabotage inspection.

  51. Here is a fast-paced story of sabotage and murder directed against a project more secret and valuable than the atom bomb!

  52. In strict confidence, because of sabotage it has been determined to close in the Platform and get it aloft at the earliest possible instant, even if its interior arrangements are incomplete.

  53. Mike's whole scheme had been intended to force all sabotage efforts to take place at a single instant.

  54. If a successful attempt at violent sabotage was to be made, the efforts of all groups would have to be timed to the first, or abandoned.

  55. Plenty of that sabotage stuff," growled the Chief.

  56. The common element in all those sabotage tricks was actually clear enough, but Joe wasn't used to thinking in such terms.

  57. He found that his ostensible assignment to the airfield for the investigation of sabotage was quaintly taken at face value there.

  58. He came back to his house from a grim conference on exactly the subject of how to make preparations against any possible sabotage incidents--and ran into a proposal to stimulate them!

  59. Although a comparatively small amount of capital plant was damaged during the hostilities, looting, insurgent attacks, and sabotage have undermined efforts to rebuild the economy.

  60. It was necessary to depend wholly and confidently upon the masses in order, jointly with them, to overcome the sabotage and the aristocratic pretensions of the upper classes.

  61. Next came a long and exhausting struggle against the sabotage of the bureaucrats, technical workers, clerks, etc.

  62. It was they, too, who organized the government officials for sabotage and the cadets for military resistance.

  63. The former Soviet parties tried their utmost to find support in this class and organize a sabotage of the new government.

  64. The Revolutionary General Staff, which tried to straighten out things from above, encountered insurmountable obstacles, the greatest of which was the sabotage of the military-technical employees.

  65. You are speaking about sabotage and I was asking you concerning terroristic acts of these organizations.

  66. Let me repeat again, as well as the sabotage acts, were there any terror acts assigned to them?

  67. Ravenhurst specifically told me that he doesn't want you messing around with the espionage and sabotage problem because he doesn't like your methods of operation.

  68. I thought for a second, then said: "Is there any known rival agent in any position to sabotage McGuire on Phobos, Mars, or Luna?

  69. We managed to block any attempts of sabotage by other company agents, even though it looked as though we hadn't for a while.

  70. Among them was an account of daring sabotage by a former zipper salesman, and the dramatic story of the Martyrdom of Thrang.

  71. According to the Prime Minister, our dictatorship cannot boast a single act of espionage or sabotage done to it since the beginning of the war.

  72. He referred to the fascist sympathizers within Madrid--those attempting to abet the defeat of the Spanish Government by means of spying, sabotage and terrorism.

  73. Rumors of war and high finance, trade unions, strikes and sabotage burst on my startled artist's ears.

  74. Not only the Spaniard but Marsh himself was quoted as favoring violence, and from that special Sabotage Issue of Joe Kramer's paper long extracts were reprinted.

  75. She would now go back to the hotel and detect this spy committing sabotage on the mashed potatoes, or something, and arrest him--just like that!

  76. She was committing sabotage on him in the cruellest way.

  77. Inform Captain Riggs of attempt to sabotage the ship's engines.

  78. The girl was taking the latest news of sabotage and sudden death with cool courage, as became the daughter of a Navy Admiral.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sabotage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baffle; balk; bankruptcy; blast; brave; breakage; breakdown; bugger; challenge; checkmate; circumvent; collapse; confound; confront; convulsion; counter; counteract; countermand; cripple; cross; damage; dash; debilitate; defeat; defy; destroy; destruction; detriment; dilapidation; disable; discomfit; disconcert; discountenance; dish; disrupt; downfall; drain; elude; enfeeble; fall; foil; frustrate; hamstring; harm; honeycomb; hurt; hurting; incapacitate; infringement; injury; inroad; interfere; jinx; kibosh; lame; loss; maim; maiming; mine; mischief; mutilation; overthrow; overturn; perplex; prostration; queer; ruin; ruination; sabotage; scathe; spike; spoil; stump; subversion; subvert; thwart; undermine; upheaval; upset; weaken; weakening; wing; wreck