Sentence examples for capital fires from inspiring English sources

As night fell in Port-au-Prince Port-au-Princeal, Port-au-Prince, Haiti shoreline downtown, but otherwise the city fell into darkness.

In Chicago, Mayor Daley ordered his police force to shoot to kill arsonists and "shoot to maim or cripple looters"; in the nation's capital, fires and looting spread to within two blocks of the White House.

Compare this with the cultural capital firing the English canon.

On July 15th government forces, who have generally used tear gas and batons in the capital, fired live ammunition, killing at least 20 people.

Police on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital, fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse stone-throwing workers after they vandalised vehicles, said local police officials.

Chechen separatists have also claimed that a sniper has begun to terrorize the police in Grozny, the Chechen capital, firing on officers in the city's center and eluding capture.

In a recent report describing the misery of Russian soldiers crouching in the rubble of Grozny, the Chechen capital, firing artillery at Chechen snipers, an NTV correspondent concluded laconically that "everything is going according to a plan".

At a rally on Saturday, CAR's new leader addressed supporters as his supporters paraded through the capital, firing into the air.

Police in the French capital fire tear gas at taxi drivers blocking a major intersection during the second major protest over wages and working conditions in recent months.

So how does the Dutch capital's fire service decide where the risk of fire and and other incidents is highest, and how and where their resources should be deployed to greatest effect?

In late August, at Vandalia, the former state capital, citizens fired on troops who had arrested deserters, wounding two.