Sentence examples for a crossfire between from inspiring English sources

A Roman Catholic cardinal asserted that his predecessor was deliberately killed eight years ago, not caught in a crossfire between rival drug traffickers.

Red Hook's reputation for drug-fueled violence was solidified in 1992 by the killing Patrick Daly, the revered principal of a local elementary school, who was caught in a crossfire between rival drug gangs.

Especially in the 1960s he was caught in a crossfire between the activists, on the one hand, who felt he should be more straightforwardly engagé, and some of the critics, on the other, who felt he was not being true to his experience as a Negro.

The social media community is caught in a crossfire between market force power plays and standards body jockeying.

"There was a conflict, kind of a crossfire, between soldiers and terrorists that had nothing to do with the elections".

Lt-Col Lerner suggested that the victims may have been "brought to the compound after injury" for medical treatment or shelter after being caught in a crossfire between Israeli troops and Gaza militants.

There will be a glorious crossfire between Humala and Garcia.

People will flee for the country because staying in Nairobi could result in getting caught in a brutal crossfire between factions.

"Civilians in southern Yemen have found themselves trapped in a deadly crossfire between Houthi loyalists and anti-Houthi groups on the ground, while facing the persistent threat of coalition airstrikes from the sky," Amnesty International's Senior Crisis Response Advisor Donatella Rovera said.

In the trunk," she wrote, referring to an incident in March in which Claudia Silva Ferreira, a resident of Rio's Morro da Congonha favela, was injured in an alleged crossfire between police and criminals.

The film opens with a shoot-out in a favela involving crossfire between drug dealers, hapless police and the black-clad men of BOPE, with their skull insignias and automatic rifles.