Sentence examples for shootings a from inspiring English sources

Shootings or no shootings, a schedule is a schedule.

In a statement, Gov. M. Jodi Rell called the latest shootings a "senseless act of violence".

In one of the shootings, a photographer's assistant was seriously injured.

Barack Obama, in a televised interview, called the shootings "a cowardly and evil attack".

On average, there are about four shootings a day, a senior police official said.

That is well below the more than 400 shootings a year that took place in the early 1990s, but it is likely to overtake the fewer than 200 shootings a year recorded during most of the late '90s.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut, who went to Newtown, called the shootings "a tragedy of unspeakable terms".

In April 2008, I was part of a Post team that won a Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings a year earlier.

Many of those old friends, he said over a recent lunch, have been killed in gang-related shootings -- a situation "only getting worse, day by day" in Irvington.

Motorcycles were banned because of the many drive-by shootings - a trademark of Boko Haram killings.

The two guns used in the shootings, a.38-caliber snub-nosed revolver and an assault rifle, are still being traced, they said.