Sentence examples for off the soldiers from inspiring English sources

Afghan guerrillas firing from surrounding ridges would disable the first and last vehicles in the Soviet columns and then slowly pick off the soldiers trapped in the center.

They discounted the reports in the state news media that the military council had assumed legislative authority, and also wrote off the soldiers and the riot police officers barring entrance to Parliament.

These are the fighters who inspired reams of fearful and admiring verse from Rudyard Kipling, the sharpshooters blessed with perfect sight who picked off the soldiers of the British Raj.

After his plane took off, the soldiers raided the hotel, engaged in a brief shootout with security personnel at Grand Yazici Club Turhan.

During the negotiation, a unit commander alerted a blogger who wrote about North Korean refugees, and that blogger reached out to Do, who worked with his human rights group to pay off the soldiers and secure the woman's release to South Korea.

In Guillermo Galdos and Angus Macqueen's The Legend of Shorty, Guzmán's men coolly boast about paying off the soldiers supposedly hunting him down.

As the Mexicans stopped to reload their cannon, the Texians climbed a bluff and picked off some of the soldiers.

In English, he asked, "Where's your husband?" Without taking her eyes off the soldier, the woman said something in Vietnamese, in an explanatory tone.

The doctor jump-started the marine's heart twice, three times, only to have it fail -- again and again -- until the nurses finally pried him off the soldier's body.

"I wish they'd take that nigger's picture off," the soldier said, a moment before Browne granted him "a lesson in when to use that word and when you should not use that word - a physical lesson".

Bob Duggan, writing in the Big Think web forum, said the woman fending off the soldier, "stands for every person of every age struggling against powerful forces of oppression.