Sentence examples for firepower aimed from inspiring English sources

The intense American firepower, aimed at forcing the last pocket of Al Qaeda resistance into submission, appeared to be working, as about 50 Qaeda soldiers surrendered to opposition forces.

It was strangely exhilarating to see such intellectual firepower aimed at the kneading of bread dough or the grilling of a hamburger or the mitigation of the gassy effects of beans, to be confronted with startling scanning-electron-microscope close-ups of the bacteria in yogurt, the mold in blue cheese, the surface of cooked spaghetti.

But despite the overwhelming business firepower aimed at financial reform, as Heather Booth reminds audiences, in the David vs. Goliath battle, "We know how that turned out".

Her argument boils down to this: too much firepower was aimed at her emails, part of a long pattern of unfair scandal mongering over the years.

Russian firepower is aimed at securing the larger, western part of the rump Syrian state that is still controlled by Mr. Assad — in particular the air and naval bases near Latakia and Tartus.

This is wrong, but the widespread absence of global price pressures demands that our firepower be well aimed".

The reason for that, as Ms. Brown and many industry advisers see it, is that too much of their firepower has been aimed in the wrong direction.

We have the technological capabilities, we have the talent, we know what to do — but unless all of this firepower is unified and aimed at the enemy, we might as well have nothing.

Preppers often proudly declare their willingness (or even a disconcerting glee) at the firepower they will aim at the unfortunate stragglers who trespass near their fortified bunker in search of provisions.

This is a problem that already exists, i.e., that too much of the economic firepower of the country is aimed at nonproductive or speculative activities.

But the attorney aimed his real firepower at discrepancies between Zambada Garcia's days of testimony at trial and the detailed depositions he'd given the government as part of his cooperation agreement, in particular why he had failed to name Guzman even once in several events to which he later testified the kingpin had been deeply involved.