Sentence examples for quick on the trigger from inspiring English sources

Since he tends to stalk about, wielding a rifle -- in search of rabbits, he says at one point -- one assumes Karl is quick on the trigger.

Rose was quick on the trigger.

He suggested that Mr. Kerry was quick on the trigger with that particular charge.

Goldwater was uncommonly quick on the trigger, and, when he shot, he shot straight.

Still, some P.R. folks can be too quick on the trigger.

"Reluctant, then aggressive; asleep at the switch, then quick on the trigger; indifferent, then obsessed, then indifferent again.

He teams up with Terry Quinn, the quick-on-the-trigger white cop who fired the fatal shot, to uncover the complex reality behind that street incident.

In Gaza, some quick-on-the-trigger Palestinian policemen shot dead three protesters in an ominous clash with their own people.These protests may have engaged only a rowdy few, but they served notice that Muslim leaders face difficult choices.

"Apparently they tend to downplay what they are working on and are a little less quick to the trigger".

"People are a little quicker on the trigger than they used to be".

Quickest on the trigger were those Republicans harbouring presidential ambitions of their own.