During Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month which started at the beginning of August, he has veered towards even starker repression.In a rolling campaign of assaults Mr Assad's men have shot and blasted their way into one rebellious town or city after another, swiftly adding some 300 more dead to the 1,500 Syrians killed since March.
"I wanted to hear for myself the stories of people who have been bombed and shot and blasted out of their homes in Syria by a deeply-illegitimate and unpleasant regime that is raining down death and destruction on its own people," he said.
Residual stress measurements were made on hot forged and shot blasted steel bars using X-ray and neutron diffraction techniques.
Both the prose and the analysis are simplistic, occasionally purple — soldiers are not shot but "blasted" — and largely devoid of business insight.
Hence the most moving scene in the film, when various people are blown away — not shot or blasted but sifted and dispersed, dust to dust, and swiftly gone with the wind.
Constant amplitude fatigue experiments (S N curves) were performed at ultrasonic frequency (20 kHz) with two different surface structures (ground surface and blasted and shot peened surface) in ambient air and in a corrosive fluid similar to the body fluid in the oral cavity.
When we were dating a dozen years ago, Susan went to a shooting range with a girlfriend and blasted clay targets for the very first time.
Mr. Christofi, a hired limousine driver, was shot and killed by a single blast of a 12-gauge shotgun to his chest sometime after midnight on Feb. 14, 2002, after driving Mr. Williams and his party to the Williams estate in Alexandria Township.
The bomber was wounded in the blast, and was shot and killed by two other officers as he tried to set off a second bomb, which was later found on his body, a police spokesman said.
Gales and high seas remove whole sections of them, shot-blasting them with shingle or sand until they break.
