Sentence examples for rocket firings from inspiring English sources
The Americans' mission is to stop the rocket firings and help the Iraqi government establish a modicum of control.
Rocket firings have become rare since an Egyptian-brokered truce between Hamas and Israel took effect in June.
The Israeli Army was sharply criticized in the press here today for responding so aggressively to the rocket firings.
The strikes pointed to rising tension; the rocket firings have intensified in recent days after weeks of relative calm.
They offer a relentless cadence of missile strikes, rocket firings and the destruction that ensues, rendered in slow motion and replay.
NASA engineers directed the observatory through a series of suicide rocket firings that dropped it from a high orbit and sent it plunging to Earth.
Militants in Gaza retaliated by firing barrages of rockets into southern Israel, and the Israeli Air Force struck back at numerous rocket-firing squads and facilities used by the militant groups.
Reliable UN military sources here said the arrival of the Indians — about 800 soldiers equipped with rocket-firing jeeps — is the opening move in a two-day military operation throughout Katanga.
As I mention in my latest column for the IHT, both sides are trying to harness social networks to promote their rival versions of the unfolding and uneven battle between the conventional might of the Israel Defense Forces and the rocket-firing units of Hamas's armed wing.
But I also acknowledge – as Cameron's more even-handed condemnation implicitly does and Blair's over Lebanon in 2006 – that the Israelis do have a case to make against Hamas and its rocket-firing military strategists in Gaza, the blockade against which Muslim Egypt also helps secure.
But even they wonder how they can trust Mr Abbas's ramshackle Palestinian Authority to police a state when it has already lost Gaza to the rocket-firing rejectionists of Hamas and might well lose the West Bank too.In the absence of a pre-Annapolis meeting of minds, America has therefore moved to Plan B. There may still be a joint declaration, but it will be vague.
