Sentence examples for heavy sniper from inspiring English sources

For Company K of Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, the day had a different character from Wednesday, when it came under heavy sniper fire.

Webb rests his hand on a long, heavy sniper rifle that fires a round nearly six inches long, seized on its way to Mexico.

On Saturday, roadside bombs and heavy sniper fire stopped Peshmerga forces entering the Shi'ite Turkman village of Bashir, 20 km south of Kirkuk, but made slow advances and captured some villages to the southwest of the city, officials told Reuters.

But seasoned observers of the frenzied campaigning and lobbying that surround the awards have found it all too predictable that The Hurt Locker has over the past few days come under heavy sniper fire.

When Jim Rassmann picked up a biography of Senator Kerry in a California bookstore, the Vietnam veteran, by chance, opened it at the exact page describing how Mr Kerry had saved his life in 1969, pulling him out of the Mekong delta under heavy sniper fire.

The military said it concluded from an investigation that an infantry force had come under heavy sniper and mortar fire from a house adjacent to the doctor's, and identified "suspicious figures" in the upper level of the doctor's house who were "thought to be spotters who directed the Hamas sniper and mortar fire".

Last weekend Israel dismantled the security barrier in Gilo, a Jerusalem suburb that came under heavy Palestinian sniper fire during the second intifada.

Examples of roles: rifleman, support gunner, heavy weapons, sniper, spotter, designated marksman, grenadier.

He also arranged a shipment of 25 heavy-duty sniper guns to the Afghan resistance in 1987.

He also noted that Mr. Gbagbo's forces had fired on United Nations patrols and attacked the organization's headquarters in Abidjan "with heavy-caliber sniper fire as well as mortars and rocket-propelled grenades," wounding four peacekeepers.

"I'll get the Barrett?" a French commando asks, referring to the heavy-calibre sniper rifle stowed in the back of his pick-up truck.