Sentence examples for been ordered to fire from inspiring English sources

Surely the army would then not have been ordered to fire on its own people.

Iraqi soldiers, who had their own checkpoint nearby, reported that they had been ordered to fire on the pesh merga if they shot at the governor, the report noted.

In ancient times archers are said to have been ordered, to fire volleys of arrows into the sky during a solar eclipse to drive off the monster that was eating the sun.

When Jammeh rejected the election results a week after accepting defeat, there were grave fears young people would take to the streets in protest and risk retaliation from the army, which had been ordered to fire on dissenters.

Another case, in which a soldier had supposedly been ordered to fire at a woman and two children, was also found not to have been witnessed by the soldier who gave the account.

These wartime deaths entered a broad public debate only when The Associated Press published an extensive report on the killings in September 1999, including eyewitness accounts of American veterans who said they had been ordered to fire on the refugees.

John was ordered to fire on it.

He decided to defect after his military unit was ordered to fire on protesters in Damascus.

At one point, the S.E.E.C. was ordered to fire Ms. Hu, they said.

The tipping point could come, analysts believe, if the military is ordered to fire on demonstrators in any large numbers.

A video, in which the guard says he was ordered to fire on the crowd, soon appeared on Kurdish television.