Sentence examples for firefight this from inspiring English sources

In the middle of a firefight, this can be slightly problematic.

Reports of a firefight this month between the competing bands of jihadists in the remote district of Kajaki, in Helmand Province, quickly created a stir.

"We still have a lot of very serious, painstaking work ahead of us". "Even with so odious a figure as Rasul Makasharipov being killed today in a firefight, this does not mean that extremism and terrorism are over and done with," he added.

A furious firefight this month between Islamic State fighters and Navy SEALs in northern Iraq, in which Special Warfare Operator First Class Charles Keating IV became the third American to die since the campaign against the Islamic State began, harked back to the bloodiest days of the Iraq war.

The government said the ex-general was "simply wrong", and he in turn accused it of resorting to the "politics of smear".In the heat of this firefight, the opposition Conservatives have dropped a bombshell: they plan to hire Sir Richard as an adviser on defence and appoint him to the House of Lords.

A series of clashes have occurred between American and Syrian troops in the last year, including a prolonged firefight this summer that killed several Syrians.

The Badr Brigade, a militia group whose members trained in Iran during the long rule of Saddam Hussein, controls this town of 50,000 people where six British soldiers and four Iraqis were killed in a firefight this week, residents said today.

As they watched a push-and-shove naval match in the Yellow Sea erupt into a firefight this week, many South Koreans renewed their belief that even as relations thaw across the Korean peninsula, North Korea remains an irascible, secretive, terrorist neighbor.

A1 U.S. Tells of Clashes with Syria American and Syrian troops have clashed on a number of occasions in the last year, including a firefight this summer that killed several Syrians, raising the prospect that cross-border operations may become a dangerous new front in the Iraq war, according to government officials.

The aftermath of Monday's six-hour firefight in this palm-studded village 50 miles west of Baghdad was an encounter on Tuesday with two different countries.

So you almost always end up in a straight-up firefight, and this is a game in which your character often decides simply not to take cover when you tell him to duck.