Sentence examples for might be fired from inspiring English sources

"Part of [what has] struck a chord among women about the Abramson case is the suggestion that a woman might be fired for character issues-being too aggressive, pushy, condescending-but a man wouldn't be," Kay explains.

Shots might be fired, people might be killed.

Flynn and Pottinger understood that they might be fired.

The current Chargers coach, Mike Riley, might be fired at the end of the season.

The Energy Department's principal deputy assistant, Dae Chung, said that the contractor, URS Corporation of San Francisco, might be fired.

Mr. Fields and some others around the table thought that he might be fired, the book says.

The prospect that Mr. Paterno, a revered figure, might be fired by the board of trustees was suddenly real.

But if the owner knew about this, my colleague would not get the promotion and might be fired.

The first exterior scene is brilliantly ambiguous, a landscape of strange forked objects that might be fire-tipped cactuses or giant hands with scarlet nails, and which, like surreal smokestacks, emit odd puffs of smoke.

I asked Rehman, who used to refer to the Taliban as "our boys," if he still considered the Taliban, even those who might be firing rockets at his house, his boys.

Swartz isn't arguing that Jose posed a deadly threat, but rather that the agent didn't know he might be firing on someone with constitutional rights.