Sentence examples for fired to prevent from inspiring English sources

He left office seven years later in 2008 under a dark cloud of corruption after text messages revealed the affair, with his chief of staff, and an $8.5 million settlement with police officers, whom he fired to prevent the affair from being revealed.

He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and resigned as mayor in 2008, after text messages showed that he had engaged in an extramarital affair with his chief of staff and that he agreed to an $8.5 million settlement with police officers whom he fired to prevent the affair from being revealed.

Skirmishes have broken out between police and protesters near Egypt's Interior Ministry, as tear gas was fired to prevent demonstrators from reaching the building.

Indeed, no shots were fired to prevent the gunmen from seizing another town.

Squeeze with even pressure and continue squeezing after the shot is fired to prevent the gun from jumping.

If the enemies is 5 to 15 feet (1.5 to 4.6 m) in front of base do not fire to prevent them from finding base (only fire if they know the base is there).

This is true literally, in that park rangers set fires to prevent fires, actively managing forests, trying to produce not engineered virginity, but tended forests.

Both were too busy putting out fires to prevent them from flaring up, and both fell prey to fresh temptations.

The situation has gotten so desperate that coastguard officials are considering setting the slick on fire to prevent it from reaching ecologically sensitive areas.

Controlled burns have long been a tool by which firefighters set little fires to prevent huge ones that can't be controlled, like the ones that burned 4,800 acres in Rocky Point and Westhampton Beach in 1995.

And in Gaza, the Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, continued for a third day negotiations with the various militant factions, in talks aimed at securing a cease-fire to prevent further attacks on Israelis that could scuttle the plan.