A minute later loud, sustained machine-gun fired erupted a short distance away.
It's arguable that at this point, Mud Jug's internet presence is something of a self-sustaining machine.
death by slow degree, the patient unconscious, sustained by machines, drifting from infection to complication and back to infection, is a misery for all involved.
Single sniper shots shrieked down Nasr Road, the main thoroughfare leading through the camp; sustained bursts of machine gun fire clattered into nearby buildings; wayward rounds shredded through the labyrinthine networks of tents and tarpaulin shacks.
An official form from the Ministry of Health says that in early 2013 while Mered was known to be in Libya Berhe was treated for an injury he sustained in a "machine accident," while working as a carpenter.
But is a body sustained entirely by machines any longer a life?
The column sustained heavy fire from machine guns and grenade launchers, he said.
Long, sustained bursts with a machine gun, for example, will become things of the past as the force of the blast physically lifts your arm, affecting your aim.
One machine had sustained 70 hits, another 200.
