Sentence examples for bullet away from inspiring English sources

"But we are one bullet away from returning to the bunkers.

He is the author of "One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer Houghton Mifflinin, 2005).

Washington's ambassador to the troubled African state of Eritrea described its president, Isaias Afwerki, as a cruel "unhinged dictator" whose regime was "one bullet away from implosion".

And also the beneficiary of the "random geometry of chance," as Nathaniel Fick, a former Marine captain, put it in his memoir, "One Bullet Away".

Many in Washington disagreed with the Bremmer recommendation, but he warned at the time, "The Greeks are but a bullet away from losing the Games, especially if it's aimed at another American".

Yet although the regime is "one bullet away from implosion", Eritreans' strong sense of nationalism and their capacity to withstand great suffering and deprivation allows Isaias to cling to power.

"The armor really kept the bullets away from me.

Republicans called the effort misguided and futile, saying the bills strip law-abiding gun owners of their Second Amendment rights while doing little to keep guns and bullets away from criminals.

She wants to take the bullets away.

I told him about the pay cut; I told him it would be a 24/7 job; I told him the promo men would hate him for taking their bullets away; I told him our friendship would be tested.

The two best players in New York pro football history were being honored among the 100 most important people in New York sports in the 20th century (Namath tied for eighth with George Steinbrenner and Casey Stengel), and seeing them together prompted a fantasy: If only they had played against each other -- Namath maybe or maybe not getting a bullet pass away just before L. T. pounced on him.