Sentence examples for and firing upon from inspiring English sources

For the next two days, they were armed Islamic revolutionaries, assaulting garrisons and firing upon police stations.

This military hardware is capable of identifying, tracking and firing upon a moving target from a great distance, theoretically without human intervention.

Numerous eyewitnesses saw police aiming tear gas shells at, and firing upon, Muslim youths who tried to defend themselves or others.

Having failed to secure a proper site for their settlement, and fearing that they had angered the local Native Americans by robbing their corn stores and firing upon them, the colonists decided to look elsewhere; the Mayflower left Provincetown Harbor and set sail for Plymouth Harbor.

Demonstrators were beaten and fired upon, further raising political tensions.

When Vietnamese vessels challenged them, they were rammed and fired upon with water cannon.

Every army conscripted Tatars as laborers, and fired upon civilian homes.

John Singleton] Mosby's guerrillas dashed out from a piece of woods and fired upon" Buckingham, the Herald reported.

For comparison, fresh swine bones were also embedded in gelatin, and fired upon under the same guidelines.

It was to cross the East China Sea, arrive off Okinawa and fire upon American ships and troops battling for the island.

There were reports that police and civilian cars had pursued and fired upon a car carrying three white men, that sped out of the city.