Sentence examples for shootings back from inspiring English sources
'There were a lot of shootings back then and people did get killed,' he said.
Both periods were marked by high numbers of livery-cab shootings, for example, but it was other kinds of shootings back then -- drive-bys, gunfights on street corners and in playgrounds -- that created the real fear and amplified the effects of livery shootings.
These killings bring mass shootings back into the national spotlight.
The killings brought the horror of mass shootings back into the national spotlight, as President Barack Obama condemned the "cowardly act" and honored the victims during an address.
In the wake of the Aurora shootings back in July of 2012, President Barack Obama indicated that he would "evaluate" a bill limiting the sale of online ammunition filed by Sen, Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J).
After Parkland put school shootings back in the national conversation and raised the prospect of the NRA actually facing political pushback from corporations and politicians, I caught up with one of the attorneys for the Newtown families, Katherine Mesner-Hage.
The figures, which are hotly disputed by senior officers, have brought unwelcome attention to a region that still bears the scars of high-profile shootings stretching back over a decade.
(While it is difficult to tally school shootings farther back in the historical record even recent data can be hard to come by it is generally recognized that shootings like the one carried out at Stoneman Douglas have, in recent years, become more common).
The boycott, intended to give an economic voice to discontent over police shootings, harks back to 1977, when the acquittal of a police officer in the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy led to a "Black Christmas" boycott organized by Mr. Daughtry.
For some residents here, gathered for the funeral of one of the victims, the shootings brought back memories of rocket attacks and deadly infiltrations of years gone by, and also a sense that in the spiralling conflict with the Palestinians, even this scenic corner of Israel was not safe.
The last time America saw more weekday than weekend shootings was back in January; the last time the nation saw more weekday than weekend deaths was that brutal stretch between February 20 and 26, which included the Hesston, Kansas, massacre during the week as well as the Kalamazoo, Michigan, shooting spree on the weekend.
