Sentence examples for resist gunfire from inspiring English sources
Since the 2001 attacks, when terrorists took control of four aircraft with the loss of thousands of lives, cockpit doors have been designed to resist gunfire and grenades.
The Mona Lisa was completely undamaged because it is isolated in a vitrine designed to resist gunfire, let alone a ceramic cup, and as security men wrestled the attacker to the ground, Lisa smiled on.
They continued to resist using gunfire and stones, but eventually the few people that remained in the fort became desperate and could not hold on any longer.
At the meeting of the Indians Defense League, he is reported to have advised the Indians to "resist with all their power, even to gunfire, if necessary in the defense of their territory".
As his opponents seek to resist him, residents of the Burundian capital have become increasingly used to the sound of gunfire at night – and the reports of deaths in the morning.
There were no sounds of explosions or gunfire on the Samra before it began to sink, indicating that the crew had not attempted to resist the inspection, officials said.
"We will resist to the end," Sharif Shakirov, 33, one of the protesters inside the mayor's office, said in a telephone interview before the building and the square were convulsed by gunfire and chaos.
These two poor, adjacent neighborhoods have been defined by volleys of gunfire since at least the 1980s, when Syria occupied Lebanon and Sunnis resisted.
