Sentence examples for gunpoint a from inspiring English sources

His Eurasian Union will either be stillborn or held together at gunpoint — a rickety, glum mini-empire flanked by a more democratic Europe on one side and a more dynamic China on the other.

The 12-time Olympic medallist had earlier told the world he'd been robbed at gunpoint, a story that had the unfortunate qualities of being a) untrue and b) a cover story for the fact that he was pissed.

What they did know was that on Wednesday three trucks came to the village on the road from Baghlan, and the 15 people inside the trucks said they had been robbed at gunpoint a few miles away.

The 74-year-old mother of the Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. was found with her hands bound in the back seat of her car Wednesday after being kidnapped at gunpoint a day earlier at her home outside Baltimore and driven around blindfolded by her abductor, the police and neighbors said.

He said that while doing his hustling "on the corner, doing what [he] had to do to survive," he got "robbed at gunpoint a million times" and got his "a– beat a million times," but what "really scared" him the most wasn't all the shootings and violence he witnessed.

Days before he was scheduled to testify at the trial of a man charged with robbing him at gunpoint, a Brooklyn pizza deliveryman was found in a parking garage in Queens, his burned and decapitated body rolled up in a carpet that had been placed in an abandoned car, the authorities said.

In 1864, the US government forced the Navajo from their reservation at gunpoint, an event known as the Long Walk.

women kidnapped at gunpoint, an ex-boyfriend of one of them was arraigned on Thursday for allegedly trying to kill the pair almost a month ago.

The police charged a man yesterday with raping a woman at gunpoint in a children's clothing store on Monday afternoon.

This 2000 episode also involves a failed seduction, a man who talks too much in bed, a robbery at gunpoint and a sexually transmitted disease.

September 2007 Simpson is arrested on charges of kidnapping two sports memorabilia dealers and robbing them at gunpoint in a room in a Las Vegas hotel and casino.