Sentence examples for start the shelling from inspiring English sources
An unverified report from a clandestine agent that yesterday or the day before some guerrillas had gathered in the hamlet was sufficient excuse to start the shelling.
When the scheme started, the government, shell-shocked from the food crisis of 2005, its first year in power, did not trust private suppliers to procure or distribute subsidised fertiliser and seeds, so it did the task itself.
"We were sitting inside our house when we started hearing the shelling.
The Civil War officially started with the shelling of Fort Sumter, but in many significant ways, it truly began with Shiloh.
Start with the shell and then work your way in.
"Our television showed how the shelling started, the incursion of Georgian forces, and so on," Zolotarev, who helped draft Russia's national-security doctrine in the nineteen-nineties, said.
In Uganda in 1986, the National Resistance Army sent children into the capital to spot the government fortifications and when the shelling started, the children mingled with the fleeing crowds and threw hand-grenades at trucks full of government soldiers.17 And while children might be thought to be the people deserving greatest protection, as soldiers they are often considered the most expendable.
Assad sent an emissary to tell the commanders that he would start shelling the base if they did not surrender.
This manoeuvre bought enough time that Tri Sviatitelia and Pantelimon were able to rejoin the other two ships before they could start shelling the Ottoman forts.
This maneuver bought enough time that Tri Sviatitelia and Pantelimon were able to rejoin the other two ships before they could start shelling the Ottoman forts.
