Sentence examples for crossfire from from inspiring English sources

The truck that they hit first got caught in a crossfire from machine guns.

His comment, made in an interview with "60 Minutes," came amid a burst of rhetorical crossfire from the White House briefing room.

Caught in a crossfire from students on the left and politicians on the right, he was ousted in 1967 by the new governor, Ronald Reagan.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama's economic recovery plan ran into crossfire from his own party in Congress on Thursday, suggesting that quick passage of spending programs and tax cuts could require more time and negotiation than Democrats once hoped.

"Local journalists work in terrible security conditions, caught in the crossfire from the fighting and often deliberately targeted by anti-media militiamen.... Light needs to be shed on this crime.

He spoke as American forces in Iraq also found themselves heavily criticised over civilian deaths when eight people died, apparently caught in crossfire from a gunfight between insurgents and soldiers in Baghdad's Sadr City yesterday.

STAR TURNS -- On the first season of "The Apprentice," the winner, Bill Rancic, received a Crossfire roadster from Donald Trump.

CHRYSLER CROSSFIRE: Aside from making use of available Mercedes components, what was the point of this ultraclaustrophobic, none-too-fun $35,000 coupe?

Throughout his tenure, Dr. al-Iryani has been caught in a political crossfire resulting from his government's desire for improved relations with the United States -- as evidenced by the agreement on Navy ships refueling in Yemen -- and its desire not to provoke Yemenis who are militantly anti-American.

According to Survival International director, Stephen Corry, conservation in India is becoming militarised and local tribal peoples are being caught in the crossfire, evicted from wildlife parks to make room for animals and large-scale tourism, and shot if they enter areas they used to occupy.

It's the Crossfire commercial from the 1990s, a time when I was still young and full of life.