Sentence examples for command to shoot from inspiring English sources

Military commanders, given an order outside the chain of command to shoot down hijacked airliners, did not pass it along to the fighter pilots, but instructed them instead to identify the tail numbers of any suspected rogue planes.

One of the defense lawyers hammered away at the point that Eriksson had killed the girl when, in obeying the Sergeant's command to shoot her, he fired his grenade launcher.

President Yanukovych, before Poland Germany and France, and before my representative, ombudsmen Lukin, signed an agreement with the opposition, by which, I want to note, Yanukovych basically gave up his power, he aggreed to all demands of opposition, early elections, to return to the constitution of 2004, … he didn't give one illegal command to shoot unfortunate protestors.

In a sworn statement he gave in Haditha in February 2006 to an Army colonel investigating the Haditha episode, Sergeant Wuterich said he told three marines under his command to "shoot first, ask questions later" as they prepared to attack a house that they thought was the source of enemy fire.

The use of deadly force was termed the Schießbefehl ("order to fire" or "command to shoot").

"And the mother and the toddler?" Maria had followed the command to shoot a mother in the face, then her baby.

But he sympathized with officers who had been commanded to shoot their fellow-citizens.

Do we want to go straight from verbal commands to shooting people?" Lawrence thinks that instead of talking about banning Tasers from schools, the discussion should be framed around "making as many different options available to our officers as possible and allowing them to use good common sense about which ones to use at which time".

The uprising was triggered when Ippolit Giliarovsky, the ship's second in command, allegedly threatened to shoot crew members for their refusal.

The grand jury accused Mr. Taylor of "commanding" his accomplice to shoot the victims, Ramon Nazario, Ali Ibadat, Jeremy Mele, Jaquione Johnson and Patrick Castro.

He also said that the strongest piece of evidence proving that Mr. Taylor intended to kill all the employees -- whether personally or by commanding Mr. Godineaux to shoot -- was a box of plastic garbage bags found at the restaurant with Mr. Taylor's fingerprints on it.