Sentence examples for firefight on from inspiring English sources

Attacks by insurgents, including one that drew Americans into a firefight on Sunday, the killing of two American soldiers by an Iraqi soldier at a base north of Baghdad and now the escape have bolstered a sense of unease here at a time when violence is spiking and the country's politics remain deadlocked.

A testy email exchange comes to mind - with a listener who bitterly objected to an infinitive that I had split on Radio 4 one morning, as I crouched behind a wall during a firefight on the outskirts of Abidjan, and which he believed fundamentally undermined the credibility of my entire report.

Plainly stated, Bergdahl was not captured in a firefight on the battlefield.

The team had engaged militants in a firefight on the Afghan side of the border.

The firefight on Baladiyat Street was the most intense combat the men saw there.

When he died in a firefight on April 4, he was 22.

Readying themselves for a potential firefight, one banged on the gate repeatedly with his rifle.

I went through two fierce firefights on highways today.

Five Israeli soldiers were killed inside Lebanon on the first day of fighting, July 12, and in intense firefights on Wednesday and Thursday, six Israeli soldiers were killed just inside Lebanon, according to the military.

Ras doesn't know how many people he's killed, though he remembers he shot his first enemy aged 19, as a Koevoet member under De Kock; he had engaged in 49 firefights on the border before he reached Vlakplaas.

The decision did not come lightly after months of public shouting matches, penned op-eds and rhetorical firefights on social media enveloped Landrieu's request in June that the statues be displayed in a museum, mothballed or discarded as vestiges of New Orleans' racist past.