Sentence examples for ought to fire from inspiring English sources

What is it, the New York Times?" "I ought to fire you on the spot!" "This must be a joke," I said.

(Mr. Rooney, a World War II veteran, had said, in part: "We didn't shock them, and we didn't awe them in Baghdad. The phrase makes us look like foolish braggarts. The president ought to fire whoever wrote that for him").

And I've just about concluded that the real problem may be the President himself" — standing ovation — "and that next year we ought to fire him and get a new one".

After musing aloud about whether Mr. Bush's advisers had steered him wrong, Mr. Gore said, "I've just about concluded that the real problem may be the president himself and that next year we ought to fire him and get a new one".

At the very least they ought to fire their accountant.

If he didn't know about it, he ought to fire Rick Davis immediately".

Teachers' unions have an interest in preserving the process, in making sure that there's no precedent by which a district can fire a teacher just because, you know, everybody knows he ought to be fired.

Obviously, standardised tests can help identify poor teachers who ought to be fired.

"The right course is they ought to be fired".

The right course is they ought to be fired because the President has apparently suffered an election-year conversion.

"I had one Palestinian negotiator say to me, 'If we can't do an agreement under these circumstances, we ought to be fired,"' Ross says.