Sentence examples for had been ordered to shoot from inspiring English sources

He had been ordered to shoot -- and so he shot.

Mr. Rugman reports: Many of the men say they they defected because either they or their colleagues had been ordered to shoot Syrian demonstrators dead.

Pesh merga fighters at a checkpoint on the road to Bashiqa said that they had been ordered to shoot the governor if he tried to pass.

Karremans insisted UN soldiers had been ordered to shoot only in self-defence and air strikes were decided by the UN headquarters.

BERLIN, Aug. 12 — Seventeen years after German reunification, archivists have found the first written proof that East German border guards had been ordered to shoot to kill anyone trying to escape to West Germany, including women and children.

Some of the other instructors told him they had been ordered to shoot demonstrators.

They have been ordered to shoot the older students but not the children," Khorasani said.

In a bid to restore order, the security forces have been ordered to shoot rioters on sight.

Officials banning speedboats or fishing vessels from the area, and military forces have been ordered to shoot to kill anybody who arouses suspicion or refuses to identify themselves.

He said he had been ordered to arrest and shoot at dozens of protesters, including many young students, who had scrawled antigovernment graffiti on the walls of the town.

The unit he was to deploy with had been ordered to report for processing on Nov. 5, the date of the shooting.