Sentence examples for firing upon from inspiring English sources
They then entered one classroom after another, firing upon the students.
For the next two days, they were armed Islamic revolutionaries, assaulting garrisons and firing upon police stations.
This military hardware is capable of identifying, tracking and firing upon a moving target from a great distance, theoretically without human intervention.
Like Goya, Mr. de Jong depicts an execution of sorts, for the soldiers are firing upon the unarmed, grinning giant who taunts his executioners with castanets.
But when Mr. Bush was asked by a Spanish reporter today if firing upon the hotel was a mistake, he seemed irritated.
"Every so often we can hear a helicopter and then their guns firing upon the rebels who have now taken almost the entire city".
"The United States believes that firing upon our aircraft in the no-fly zone, or British aircraft, is a violation -- it is a material breach," said Scott McClellan, a spokesman for the White House.
A night patrol is fired upon.
"He could have been fired upon.
Mosques have been fired upon.
