Sentence examples for from the crossfire from inspiring English sources

Cpl Taylor, of 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, used his body to shield the children - aged between three and seven - from the crossfire during the incident on 10 March 2011.

She escaped from the crossfire by crossing ahead of San Francisco and passing to the disengaged side of Scott's column.

We constantly hear gunfire as men and women get shot and killed, their dead bodies pulled from the crossfire.

The diminutive size of his vessel made it a difficult target and he was soon able to take advantage of a fresh breeze to withdraw from the crossfire.

I believe that a repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell deserves a chance at a straight up-or-down vote, safely protected from the crossfire of the debate over a potential extension of the Bush tax cuts.

Thus, complete responders may still derive benefit from the crossfire effect.

One of the Chinook helicopters smashed its undercarriage while pulling away from the grenades and the crossfire, leaving behind a section of the landing gear.

"Local journalists work in terrible security conditions, caught in the crossfire from the fighting and often deliberately targeted by anti-media militiamen.... Light needs to be shed on this crime.

Innocent people are no longer able to safely recover from being caught in the crossfire of a civil war, because foreign forces are insistent on bombing hospitals in ways that maximise civilian casualties.

With the Federal Reserve under attack at home and abroad, it is making an unusual public bid to keep itself away from the political crossfire.

According to Survival International director, Stephen Corry, conservation in India is becoming militarised and local tribal peoples are being caught in the crossfire, evicted from wildlife parks to make room for animals and large-scale tourism, and shot if they enter areas they used to occupy.