How to Use counterterrorism in a Sentence

counterterrorism

noun

• And to be sure, there are counterterrorism analysts who are concerned about a violent reaction by the far left to another Trump presidency.
  — Colin P. Clarke, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
• The project is still in the very early stages, though, so there’s no word yet if Kiefer Sutherland will return to reprise his role as counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer in the film.
  — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 17 July 2024
• But the future of that counterterrorism effort is in flux.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• Israel has said that the arrests are part of a counterterrorism operation against Hamas in the West Bank.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• And in Niger, long the centerpiece of France’s counterterrorism efforts in the restive Sahel, anti-French rhetoric abounds.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Al-Zawahiri did not have the charisma of bin Laden, counterterrorism experts say, but was the brains behind Al Qaeda.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 2 Aug. 2022
• The Pentagon said the drawdown in Somalia does not mark the end of U.S. counterterrorism efforts there.
  — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2020
• And the White House on Tuesday framed the operation was an enormous counterterrorism win.
  — Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
• The counterterrorism conversation took place in the context of a disagreement about the value of the 2015 nuclear deal.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 27 Apr. 2021
• These reports, the former prison guard added, reach the top management of the CSD and the police department, and are produced with the help of counterterrorism teams established before the upheaval.
  — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• In the spring of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the always bustling Dam Square in Amsterdam was deserted, silent and surrounded by concrete counterterrorism blocks.
  — Noëlle De Leeuw, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• She was sentenced to almost six years in prison last December under a broad counterterrorism law.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2021
• In recent years the United States sought out allies such as Niger and Chad for counterterrorism operations.
  — Miriam Berger, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Just this month, his agency helped bust a plot to overthrow the government, in one of the biggest counterterrorism operations of postwar Germany, the second one this year.
  — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• Kiefer Sutherland stars as Jack Bauer, who runs a government counterterrorism unit.
  — Barry Garron, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2023
• This means they may not be covered by the new Biden policy imposing stricter standards on counterterrorism strikes.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 1 June 2024
• In the name of counterterrorism, the U.S. still keeps people like Mutulu Shakur behind bars who can’t even get compassionate release and is dying of cancer.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 1 Sep. 2022
• While the troops in both countries are mostly involved in an advisory role some of them are also engaged in risky counterterrorism missions against ISIS.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2024
• Such an arrest would also be out of the purview of Delta Force, a secretive special mission group that focuses on counterterrorism missions abroad.
  — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
• The French military’s continued presence there has been seen as a key pillar of Western counterterrorism efforts in the region.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• Both were sentenced to death in January under Myanmar’s counterterrorism law during trials that were closed to the public.
  — Richard C. Paddock, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022
• More broadly, the plan accounts for better assessment in counterterrorism strikes as well as the prospects of civilian casualties in a large-scale war, such as one with China or Russia.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, ajc, 25 Aug. 2022
• The story of the child, known as Baby L to protect her identity, begins on the battlefield in Afghanistan in September 2019, when a counterterrorism team zeroed in on a remote compound.
  — Catherine Herridge, Hilary Cook, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2023
• The military takeover in Niger upended years of Western counterterrorism efforts in West Africa.
  — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• Major Haley was deployed again last June, this time to Djibouti, a base for counterterrorism operations in Africa.
  — Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• The unit was established for the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics as an elite state police counterterrorism team and has extensive training in rappelling from helicopters, fast roping from rooftops and hostage rescue.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• The attack came as Jordan attempts to walk a line in the conflict, quietly partnering with the United States on counterterrorism while looking to avoid the wrath of Iran and other regional neighbors.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024
• The military argued that many of its fake accounts were being used for counterterrorism and asked Facebook not to take down the content, according to two people familiar with the exchange.
  — Chris Bing and Joel Shectman, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
• Biden was deeply involved in the decision to launch the precision drone strike that led to his death in Kabul, making sure to avoid the civilian deaths that have tainted other counterterrorism operations.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 5 Aug. 2022
• Two suspects linked to a 2021 bombing that killed nine Chinese nationals and four Pakistanis working on a dam in the northwest were killed Friday in eastern Pakistan, counterterrorism police officials said in a statement.
  — Abdul Sattar, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024