Sentence examples for shot mortar from inspiring English sources

But until yesterday night they shot mortar shells and planted improvised explosive devices in Hayaniya's streets.

In the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where occupation forces are in a tense standoff with Moktada al- Sadr, fighters with his militia shot mortar rounds at a Spanish base, said Muhammad Garawi, a spokesman for Mr. Sadr.

Israel has already fired at targets across the cease-fire line on several occasions in response to shots or mortar shells from the Syrian side that landed in the portion of the Golan Heights that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 war.

They remained heat signatures on computer screens, or the unseen origins of shots and mortars.

In total, during the first period of the siege, the attackers fired 2,975 shots from mortars and 1,531 from cannon, and the Swedes fired 399 mortar shots and 7,464 cannon shots; thus the Swedish fire outweighed the Russian fire.

There, it claims that shelling began on 29 March, when 150 mortar shots and 60 cannon shots were fired.

Most of the attacks on Americans involve random mortar shots and improvised explosive devices.

Together, they left Oremans and Boogert all but pock-marked from the Williams mortar shots during the 6-1, 6-1 American victory.

LORAIN, Ohio — Senator Barack Obama of Illinois is getting the customary greeting that the political tribe accords to apparent front-runners: He has taken rhetorical mortar shots from all sides.

He held a brief news conference yesterday in which he came to resemble a soldier stuck on the beach at Anzio, taking mortar shots about an old land deal with a former fundraiser who is now on trial for wholly unrelated reasons.

Everybody on the team, including our kindly old manager, wanted to nail a guy on the Holdredge White Sox who actually played with file-sharpened spikes and who we caught lobbing balls into the air, during our infield practice, that would land among us like mortar shots.