Sentence examples for firing party from inspiring English sources

A Royal Marine firing party offered a three-gun salute, a bugler the Last Post.

Winston Churchill, a keen aficionado of wartime deception, described the spying game as "tangle within tangle, plot and counterplot, ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent, false agent, double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing party... interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be incredible and yet true".

But just before the New Year, I stood in the storm-howling graveyard at Shanganah – Bray Head looming through the mist – and watched the kind of funeral that generals can only dream about: the tempest rippling down the lines of soldiers, a firing party to one side of the cemetery, the Last Post played against the wind, the sword on the coffin covered with the flowing Tricolour.

A firing party of the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery led the gun carriage bearing the coffin to the cemetery.

The announcement further states that the Army is to provide: "vigil, bugler/drummer, firing party, military host/pall bearers, escort and transportation, and arrival and departure honors".

He was buried in Karori Cemetery, Wellington, on 26 September 1930, with full naval honours; HMS Dunedin (which happened to be in port at the time) provided twelve men for the firing party and eight bearers.

B. (name withheld) agreed with a British diplomat who told me Suu Kyi was "dictatorial" in her own style and manner, does not buck opposition within the NLD, and has fired party officials who disagree with her.

One of the firing parties was led by Second Lieutenant Lewis Agassiz (1793 1866); for his part in the battle, his family was later granted a coat of arms depicting a torch.

It is constantly popping off with artists sending new music, promoters firing over party invites, and group chats dedicated to who is going where later that evening.

Next, he showed us the backyard with remnants of a fire party the night before.

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