Sentence examples for firefight of from inspiring English sources

Our firefighters have been engaged in a firefight of epic proportions, trying to save every structure possible".

Messrs Gordon and Trainor describe almost every significant firefight of the campaign.

For half an hour, around the whole arena, there was a firefight of dirt clumps.

"It was Dec. 23, the last firefight of that operation," he said in a phone interview from San Diego.

Neither did they stand their ground and return fire stubbornly, as they had against Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson at the Brawner's Farm firefight of Second Bull Run.

Now, that effort to harvest lessons from the firefight of July 13 , 2008 has contributed to a new battlefield manual that will be delivered over coming days to Army units joining the fight in Afghanistan with the troop increase ordered by President Obama.

Nowhere did Israeli and Palestinian security forces engage in the sustained firefights of the last 10 days.

But it is also the day, eight years ago, when I was pinned down in the relentless firefights of Operation Phantom Fury.

With their jewelry and their money and their pet Pekingese named Mickey, they drove, unknowingly, into one of the biggest firefights of the war.

It was, however, a war fought not with bullets and bombs, but in firefights of fervid oratory and in courthouse combat.

While the black soldiers engaged in a firefight, part of the Indian Home Guard lost its way in the massive plume of smoke and drifted into the line of fire.