Sentence examples for barrages that from inspiring English sources

As they approached a government building, police in plain clothes began firing at them, in barrages that lasted three hours.

A shaky cease-fire largely held on Wednesday, after three days of gun battles and artillery barrages that left dozens of unarmed protesters dead.

The Warsaw garrison held out against the Germans until September 28, undergoing terror-bombings and artillery barrages that reduced parts of the city to rubble, with no regard for the civilian population.

Indeed, military planners have always had to strike a balance between the thunderous barrages that would push Mr. Hussein's regime to the brink of collapse, and leaving a civilian infrastructure in place for a post-war Iraq.

The Tigers, as well as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and others, have criticized the Sri Lankan government for artillery barrages that have taken a heavy toll on the civilian population.

The Pakistani army has responded with intense cross-border artillery barrages that have killed up to 50 people and caused up to 12,000 Afghan civilians to flee their homes, according to United Nations and Afghan officials.

The result is a media barrage that damages the sport's credibility".

The questions have become such a barrage that winning could almost look not worth it.

They listen for the pause in the barrage that will signal the coming of the Taliban.

From their protected position, Hancock's men kept up a merciless barrage that sent "death and destruction in their midst.

Instead, the dissonance feels more like the standard barrage that professionally anguished composers have been unleashing since the nineteen-fifties.