Sentence examples for capital shot from inspiring English sources

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American marines guarding the United States Embassy here in the capital shot and killed at least three Afghan soldiers from the Intelligence Service this morning and wounded two others, Afghan officials said, in what American officials called a regrettable incident.

An armed police operation in Iceland has resulted for the first time in a death when police in the country's capital shot and killed a man Monday.

Bain Capital shot to public attention when its co-founder Mitt Romney made an unsuccessful bid for the White House in 2012, sparking off furious debate in the US about whether the private equity firm was a "job destroyer" or work creator.

In Istanbul, the Ukrainian women's rights activists, Femen, staged a topless demonstration in bruise-like makeup to protest against domestic violence hours after a man in the Turkish capital shot dead a female relative because she left home following an argument with her husband.

The U.S. command acknowledged in January that it had sent a small team of advisors to Somalia in December, the first time American troops have been stationed there since militia fighters in Mogadishu, the capital, shot down two helicopters and killed 18 U.S. servicemen in the 1993 "Black Hawk Down" incident.

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Belfour stopped all 12 Capitals shots to record his 50th shutout.

The 23-year-old Russian stopped all 14 Capitals shots in the first period and 36 of 38 shots in the game.

But no matter the artful arrangement of the attack, it was never good enough to fool Henrik Lundqvist, who stopped the first 37 Capitals shots before Mike Green blasted a slap shot from the blue line past Lundqvist eight minutes into overtime on a Capitals power play.

Unknown gunmen in the capital, Colombo, shot and killed Nadarajah Raviraj, a member of Parliament from the Tamil National Alliance, a party widely considered to be a proxy for the separatist rebels known as the Tamil Tigers.

Over the last three years, however, several other of Kadyrov's enemies have met brutal deaths – most recently the human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, who in July was abducted from her home in Grozny, Chechnya's capital, and shot.

Most of the priests were dragged from their beds in cubicles in a dormitory at the Jose Simeon Canas University of Central America on the outskirts of the capital and shot in the head with high-powered rifles, apparently of the same type issued by the army.

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