Sentence examples for raid like from inspiring English sources

"People would make jokes about it, even before we'd go into a raid, like, Oh fucking we're gonna get the wrong house," he said.

PHILIP GOUREVITCH: It seems entirely likely that in a raid like that on a house where some are armed and some are not and it's a life and death battle, some of the people who get killed would be unarmed.

"After a raid like that, you're always sitting here wondering if they're coming back," Mr. Binney said.

But there is little appetite in the White House to launch drone strikes or a Special Operations raid, like the one that killed Osama bin Laden, in yet another Muslim country.

They must raid like Ramos (and Philip Lahm or José Bosingwa), and so we had attacking midfielders deployed in what was once a primarily defensive role (Hamit Altintop, Yuri Zhirkov, Gio van Bronckhorst).

The raid, like the one nearly three weeks earlier, was designed to shatter what was left of Mr. Hussein's government and demonstrate to the Iraqi public that the allied onslaught would continue until the government collapsed.

With its three movements of chopping strings, air raid-like drones and repeated snatches of speech, Different Trains was Reich's meditation on rail travel, the American composer contrasting the easy cross-country journeys he made during the second world war with the enforced transportation of his Jewish kin in Europe.

There have been pleasanter raids, like the most recent one.

They do not include money seized in American law enforcement raids, like $16 million captured last October.

Detroit Police Department officials have said that raids like the one on the Contemporary Art Institute are aimed at improving "quality of life".

Potential military options could include drone strikes, Special Operations raids like the one that killed Osama bin Laden and joint missions with Libyan authorities.