Sentence examples for shooting selected from inspiring English sources

Three weeks before Bloody Sunday he had recommended shooting selected ringleaders of the youths who regularly rioted in the city.

Saville refers to Ford's memorandum in which he suggested shooting selected ringleaders of the rioters after warnings.

The shootings "were not the result of any plan to shoot selected ringleaders", the report said.

The report expresses surprise that an officer of his seniority should seriously consider that this was something that could be done, though Saville says he is sure this idea was not adopted and that the shootings on Bloody Sunday were not the consequence of any "plan to shoot selected ringleaders".

He believed that the mere photographic record of something, skillfully shot, selected, and arranged, could be tantamount to the greatest art.

Three weeks before Bloody Sunday Ford sent a top-secret memo saying the best way to help maintain law and order was to "shoot selected ringleaders" among the Bogside's stone-throwing rioters – dubbed the Derry Young Hooligans.

He also expressed the view that he was coming to the conclusion that the minimum force required to deal with the 'Derry Young Hooligans' was, after clear warnings, to shoot selected ringleaders".

One listens in mounting disbelief as General Sir Robert Ford, commander of land forces in Northern Ireland, is confronted by a report in which he said it would be necessary to "shoot selected ringleaders among the Derry Young Hooligans".

"I am coming to the conclusion that the minimum force necessary to achieve a restoration of law and order is to shoot selected ringleaders amongst the DYH, after clear warnings have been issued.

Britain's most senior front-line officer at the 1972 army attack in Londonderry that left 14 civil rights marchers dead told the "Bloody Sunday" inquiry in London that his instructions to "shoot selected ringleaders" did not constitute a shoot-to-kill policy as family members of the dead have charged.

Photosynthesis was measured on healthy, expanded leaves present on the upper third of a shoot selected on each individual growing in the gap, at the edge and below the forest canopy.