Sentence examples for in the crossfire between from inspiring English sources

Last month four schoolchildren were killed in the crossfire between the army and the Maoists.

All that time he was in the crossfire between allied and German forces.

His father was killed here 13 years ago, caught in the crossfire between government and rebel forces.

Things have always been difficult in Corinto, a small town in Cauca province that has lived for decades in the crossfire between the Farc and the military.

She was caught in the crossfire between me and the louts, and I railroaded her; she left quietly not long afterwards.

For years, the huge Exxon Mobil natural gas field in Aceh province on Sumatra has been in the crossfire between insurgents and the Indonesian military.

Is the Sandwich Theory – of "ordinary" tribals being caught in the crossfire between the state and the Maoists – an accurate one?

Li gets caught in the middle of the crossfire between Ah Jong and the Triad.

Debating two other mayoral candidates, who accuse each other of siphoning money from pension funds, he says, "I'm getting caught in the crossfire here between the Little Dipper and the Big Dipper".

Large numbers of innocent people were killed in the crossfire in confrontations between gangs, and between gang members and officers of the PNH and Minustah soldiers.The total number of victims of the violence is difficult to confirm.

Her blunt, no-nonsense demeanor stood her well in public opinion polls through much of her nearly eight-year stint in the job, even as she increasingly got caught in the political crossfire between Republicans and Democrats over demands to investigate the Clinton administration.