Sentence examples for repeated shelling from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — When President-elect Barack Obama went to Israel in July — to the very town, in fact, whose repeated shelling culminated in this weekend's new fighting in Gaza — he all but endorsed the punishing Israeli attacks now unfolding.

He added: "Perhaps nothing symbolised more the horror that was unleashed on the people of Gaza than the repeated shelling of United Nations facilities harbouring civilians who had been explicitly told to seek a safe haven there.

One of the worst victims of the fighting was the last proper hospital in the rebel-held area, which had come under such repeated shelling over four days that the Red Cross, which helps run the hospital, had to evacuate all patients and staff members and flee deeper into rebel-controlled territory.

Governor Calderon took part in a subsequent commission that found initial proof of health and environmental problems caused by repeated shelling from ships and aerial bombardments from fighter jets.

Regardless, there is compelling evidence from molecular systematics as well as fossil evidence that aplacophorans lost their ancestral shell (or shell plates) secondarily, and many other groups show repeated shell-loss or evolution to a vermiform body plan.

By this time, "Cushing" was dead in the water, an easy target for repeated enemy shelling.

In other fighting, the western suburbs of Damascus endured repeated heavy shelling, according to the Local Coordination Committees, an activist organization, while renewed attempts by government forces to storm the opposition stronghold of Daraya failed.

Characteristics of Avoidance Behavior were tighter shell closures with repeated and irregular shell movements which was significantly different to their undisturbed resting behavior (p < 0.001).

Instead, simply repeat a shell stitch in each chain from the shells of the previous row.

146) Further, additional debt relief under MDRI will be at least partly offset by reductions in development assistance [ 55], thus repeating the shell game in which development assistance declined substantially in the late 1990s after the start of the original HIPC initiative [ 56](p. 6 7).

The military has replied with intensive shelling and repeated airstrikes.