Sentence examples for ambush down from inspiring English sources

He never lingered in one place long enough to give the guerrillas in the area time to come after him or to organize an ambush down the road.

And on Wednesday, in Bint Jbail, a town the Israelis said they controlled, a well-laid Hezbollah ambush pinned down infantrymen from the elite Golani Brigade for hours.

Mid-tier firms less familiar with the world of social responsibility scrutiny felt ambushed, marked down for not providing information about their human rights policy or strategy to manage future environmental risks, which bigger companies would do routinely, and then suddenly finding their poor ranking splashed on the national news.

Just hours after the boat bomb was remotely detonated, the IRA's "Warrenpoint ambush" in Co Down, Northern Ireland, claimed the lives of 18 soldiers, the British Army's greatest loss of life in a single incident during the conflict.

There, he built an artificial brook to channel rainwater and prevent erosion, laid stones around the base of a tree to make a peace sign and even imported a technique he learned in Vietnam to prevent enemy ambushes: he cut down tall grass to deny cover to drug users and graffiti taggers.

"Imperial ambushes cannot bring down the people of the liberators.

Pavilion X, outside of which Davis was ambushed and shot down, is shown here in the foreground, on the right.

After a series of missions against the Hegemony, Nikola's aircraft is ambushed and shot down, and he is captured by Pentheus.

Savvy motorists avoid certain thoroughfares after dark, when carjack gangs set up ambushes, sometimes laying down nail-embedded strips to puncture tires of vehicles ferrying potential quarry.

A quarter of a century after a Santa Ana strip club owner was ambushed and gunned down, a Hawaiian man has been sentenced to life in prison in what once was one of Orange County's most intriguing unsolved murders.

Qayum Karzai sought to play down the ambush.