Sentence examples for hanging fire from inspiring English sources

The casino issue is still hanging fire.

There are dozens of similar cases presently hanging fire.

"I am hanging fire until the right thing grabs me," she said.

An alarmingly high proportion of Union business was hanging fire on a German election result.

However, others favoured hanging fire a bit longer, to see how inflation and employment play out.

And then left, their grand project hanging fire, and went off to fight Communism instead.

Methods of execution included beheading, stoning, electrocution, hanging, firing squads and lethal injection.

People in the United States have been executed by lethal injection, hanging, firing squad, electrocution and the gas chamber.

In 10 states, prisoners may choose between lethal injection and a second method, including hanging, firing squad, electrocution and lethal gas.

That's the number of people who have been killed by lethal injection, hanging, firing squad, electric chair or cyanide gas since the US supreme court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.

Of the 38 states with the death penalty, 16 allow either the condemned prisoner or the state to choose between lethal injection or death by an alternate method, like hanging, firing squad or lethal gas.