Sentence examples for set up machine from inspiring English sources

He [Powell] would probably have set up machine guns on the roofs".

Egypt, worried about possible efforts by Palestinians to enter the country, has set up machine guns along the Gaza border.

Aboard a Cambodian pirogue, he learned that the river once teemed with dolphins; then the Vietnamese invasion force arrived, set up machine guns and shot them for sport.

It set up machine guns, then, at leisure, opened fire, killing the king's colonel and a quarter of his men inside a minute.

"This is an important insight because if you fight about this you may never get to the agreement as people set up machine gun nests for their own beliefs," he says.

Sixteen men from each of five companies volunteered to cross in the first boat and bring back the others, while on the south bank the Reds set up machine guns on the mountainsides and over the river spread a screen of protective fire concentrated on the enemy's exposed positions.

The Communist East German police tonight set up machine-gun nests along the East-West border at the Brandenburg gate.

The marines swept the grounds for unexploded ordnance and set up machine-gun nests behind sandbags on the roof.

The Japanese ambassador, Yoshifumi Okamura, and seven embassy employees sought refuge inside a safe room when Gbagbo fighters stormed the building and set up machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades on the roof.

Allows consultants to set up machines.

For years, the election board had set up machines at 49 nursing homes in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan.