Sentence examples for have fired upon from inspiring English sources

Still, the video does not resolve the identities or motive of those aboard the boat that collided with the vessel carrying the agents, and who may have fired upon them.

The U.S. military has also struggled to contain a rash of insider attacks in which uniformed Afghan soldiers and police officers have fired upon their U.S. trainers, disrupting joint operations and undermining the U.S. plan to hand over security responsibilities to the Afghans.

U.S. commanders said that the men had fired upon the soldiers first and that the troops acted in self-defense.

Charlie Hedbo's medical columnist Dr Patrick Pelloux was late to the editorial meeting that the Kouachi brothers had fired upon.

As a matter of fact, Madame President, since the year 2000, Iraq has fired upon U.S. and British aircraft over 1,600 times.

The world has tried no-fly zones to keep Saddam from terrorizing his own people, and in the last year alone the Iraqi military has fired upon American and British pilots more than 750 times.

The prosecution had demonstrated that Cardigan (using a duelling pistol with concealed rifling and a hair trigger, which was thought unsporting according to the usages of duelling) had fired upon Captain Harvey Tuckett.

The town mayor, Muhammet Ali Acar, said that the soldiers had fired in the air upon arriving at the hotel and that panicked guests called the police to report that armed men had taken over.

Who had fired the first shot long remained a point of contention with the army maintaining that it had fired only after being fired upon and the Roman Catholic community contending that the soldiers had opened fire on unarmed protesters.

In their report, the soldiers claimed that they had been fired upon and had later discovered weapons, ammunition and I.E.D. parts.

"He could have been fired upon.