Sentence examples for suppressive fire from inspiring English sources
"I am going to lay down suppressive fire and pop smoke".
The second round exploded inside the shed and I kept up small, suppressive fire".
He described the basics, like "movement to contact, suppressive fire and medical evacuation".
The tail sections of 120mm mortar bombs completed the picture of a place that had been peppered with suppressive fire.
An American military spokesman said American soldiers had provided "suppressive fire" for Iraqi troops in a counterassault.
The second rule of withdrawal is to lay down suppressive fire so the enemy cannot rush into the gap you leave behind.
The modulatory effect of the 5-HT1B agonist was dependent on the firing rate of the recorded neurons: The effect tended to be facilitative for neurons with a high firing rate, and suppressive for those with a low firing rate.
We found that each receptor can exert both suppressive and facilitative effects, depending on the firing rate of the recorded neurons.
The observed suppression is not solely due to the refractoriness of the nerve after the masking stimulus, as the latency of the suppressive effect is longer than is seen in spontaneous firing and may be due to suppressive effects from the hair cell (see discussion on electrophonics, below).
Indeed, the suppressive effect of ketanserin was mostly observed in neurons with firing rates lower than 25 spikes/s.
