Sentence examples for firing upon the from inspiring English sources
They then entered one classroom after another, firing upon the students.
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".
He didn't realize that a gunman overlooking the stage was firing upon the thousands of spectators below.
Nonetheless, the Confederates attacked first, when the artillery on the left flank began firing upon the Union line.
They were ordered to refrain from firing their weapons unless fired upon, despite the UN previously describing the situation in Srebrenica as a "slow-motion process of genocide".
He then opened fire upon the crowd.
They looked fretfully toward the sky, fearing missiles were being fired upon the city.
"As he did not threaten the U.S. forces, he was not fired upon," the inquiry found.
His fishing rod on fire upon the water as he slips off the world again, and passes out.
