Sentence examples for is being shot down from inspiring English sources

Now even a Republican proposal that isn't even a real compromise is being shot down for containing a tincture of new money.

Svinicki, 45, is being shot down, he said, because she lied.

Thereupon Galland replied that the fighters were being shot down, and were lying on the ground near Liege.

The formative experience of his life was being shot down in Vietnam and spending five-and-half years in the Hanoi Hilton.

The Memphis Belle was a rare success story in the early air campaign over Europe, when a quarter to a third of bombers were being shot down.

"So many young men and young women are being shot down and killed by police officers improperly using deadly force," he said.

He evidently sees no hypocrisy in accusing the Syrian government of such crimes while protesters are being shot down in cities across Turkey in numbers that may increase tragically if Kobani falls.

And another son, Bashar Assad, who succeeded his father, Hafez, with some of the same pretensions to modernism Seif once claimed, sent tanks into one of Syria's cities, where people are being shot down.

Across Africa, as many as 50,000 elephants are being shot down every year to satisfy the booming ivory market, in China above all; while rhinos are being slaughtered in record numbers for their horn, believed in some Asian countries such as Vietnam – entirely erroneously – to have important medical properties.

Imagine how you would feel as the key researcher in the laboratory if your pet project was being shot down!

Clever arguments to combat legal impositions, such as "we have no employees" and "we are entirely amorphous and outside of your regulatory purview" are being shot down one by one in jurisdictions around the world.