Sentence examples for shoot-down order from inspiring English sources
When they testified together before the 9/11 Commission, W. and Cheney kept up a pretense that in a previous call, the president had authorized the vice president to give a shoot-down order if needed.
It avoided saying that any minister who issues a shoot-down order would be subject to criminal prosecution, notes Dietrich Murswiek, director of the Institute of Public Law at Freiburg University.What Mr Jung and Mr Schäuble are really trying to do, their critics fear, is to replace Germany's "legal state" with a "preventive state".
They also ensure that any flight activity they detect is hostile before other aircraft are given shoot-down orders.
Then came the shoot-down.
The initial American attack was highly effective, and Burgoyne attempted to order a withdrawal, but his aide was shot down before the order could be broadcast.
"While standing at the Acme bar on the night of Aug. 19, 1895, Hardin was fatally shot in the back by John Selman, an El Paso policeman and old-time professional Texas gunman who apparently shot down Hardin in order to enhance his fame as a gunfighter.
After several courts shot down his executive order that banned travelers from seven nations from entering the United States, President Trump today made another attempt to implement his proposed Muslim immigration ban.
In response to claims that President Yoweri Museveni feared his plane being shot down on the orders of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the Ugandan foreign minister Sam Kutesa issued a statement yesterday (Thursday).
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who left Washington on Wednesday for a week of meetings in Asia, had been empowered by President Bush to issue the order to shoot down the satellite and gave the order several hours before the strike.
The FCC's 2010 "Open Internet Order", shot down by the court on Tuesday, was just one more bad move in a series of missteps.
