Sentence examples for fierce shootout from inspiring English sources

Twenty-one people died Thursday morning in a single fierce shootout between rival drug traffickers outside Nogales, which borders Arizona.

Kenya's National Police Service said armed militants shot at campus guards to gain entry, triggering a "fierce shootout".

But this disputed island chain, known to Japan as the Senkaku islands and to China as the Diaoyus, is casting its strange spell across the whole of the East China Sea.A fierce shootout with water-cannon broke out between Japan's coast guard and Taiwan's on the morning of September 25th.

Hussein's 2 Sons Are Killed In a Fight With U.S. Troops The two eldest sons of Saddam Hussein died in a fierce shootout with American forces in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after an Iraqi informant identified the palatial residence in which the two men were hiding.

The seizure of the suspected bodyguards provided another lift to American military commanders in Iraq, who said the killing of Uday and Qusay Hussein in a fierce shootout on Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul had coincided with a surge in tips from Iraqis offering information about suspected supporters of Mr. Hussein.

In the weeks that followed, fierce shootouts broke out along long stretches of the border, and the local reporters went silent.

When Richard Thompson, the English songwriter and guitarist who opened the concert, joined them for Mr. Crowell's "I Ain't Living Long Like This," the cautionary country-rock song became a fierce guitar shootout.

But the journey to that point, that fierce hospital shootout and the heartbeat-skipping epilogue, was dramatic, exciting, fun.

Another Taliban commander said the shootout was precipitated by fierce disagreement over how to deal with the splinter faction headed by Mullah Mohammad Rasool Akhund.

The result was a gritty, hard-fought 3-2 shootout victory that featured unusually fierce defense by the Rangers and timely scoring.

The shootout has proven controversial; critics have called it a gimmick, and expressed fierce opposition to any suggestion of using it to decide playoff games, though the league has not pushed for this to happen.