Sentence examples for cases of shooting from inspiring English sources

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Today, close to 40percentt of all the images in the Lego catalog contain some sort of violence, the study found, with the fastest growth occurring in cases of shooting.

But the idea of isolation and shame/anger spirals seems to fit most of the recorded cases of shooting sprees: the shooters were not only isolated but also many have been in shame states.

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That was a case of shooting the messenger.

It really is a case of shooting the messenger.

(It would be the most obvious case of "shooting the messenger").

Is it a case of shooting the messenger and playing politics?

Attacks on short-sellers for causing this crisis were seriously wide of the mark: a case of shooting the messenger.

But the global box office proved not to be a case of shooting clunge in a barrel for The Inbetweeners Movie, despite its mighty British take in 2011: it scraped an indifferent $17m outside of the country.

I know it marks me as an elitist to suggest that American voters are less than wise or well-informed, but yesterday's results really do seem to me like a textbook case of shooting oneself in the foot.

The 1969 edition of "Vogue's Book of Etiquette" includes a long discussion of "Hunting and Shooting" (don't reach for shots, offer all game to your host), but makes no mention of how to behave in the case of shooting someone in the face.

But in much the same way regulators like to ban short selling when it suits them, isn't this another case of shooting the messenger rather than listening to what the message is? High-frequency trading may or may not distort markets, but surely a knee-jerk reaction by banning it is not the answer.

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