Sentence examples for firefight for control from inspiring English sources
The Taliban carried out their attack from a safe house within the sprawling security perimeter that Afghan forces set up a week ago, said a police commander near the scene of the fighting, who had just interrogated a Taliban suspect captured in a firefight for control of the house.
Instead, some learned last week that their soldier or marine had been killed a few days earlier in the firefights for control of the capital city.
The rumored/leaked Obama plan to concentrate on the population centers would essentially cede huge tracts of the countryside to the Taliban -- and it would reverse some hard-fought gains made by some military units who have been in almost daily firefights, often for control of mere acres at a time.
The marines lost a man in an intense firefight for another house that went on most of the morning.
"Made a very challenging firefight for us," Curry said.
A firefight raged for nearly seven hours, with sniper fire pinning down the Green Berets on a 60-foot rock ledge for much of that time.
He said that the firefight lasted for three hours, "literally to the last bullet," and that the rebels withdrew only after military reinforcements arrived.
Then the firefight ends, for the moment at least, leaving only a swirl of dust drifting over the culverts.
What we tend to do is firefight; wait for something to go wrong and then manage it".
The men who were present fell back to the blockhouse and a firefight ensued for about one hour, after which the attackers withdrew.
