Sentence examples for under considerable fire from inspiring English sources

Romney has already come under considerable fire from animal rights groups over the Seamus incident.

Having come under considerable fire for slowing Ashcroft's anti-terrorism legislation, Leahy was eager to explain his position.

Mr. Lehrer, who had come under considerable fire earlier this summer for reusing previously published work on his blog for The New Yorker, resigned from the magazine.

Recently, Trevor Nunn, whose credits as director include "Cats," "Les Miserables and Nicholas Nicklebyby" and who headed the Royal Shakespeare Company for 18 years, has come under considerable fire in the London papers for his three-year-old stewardship of the Royal National Theater.

Royal Bank of Scotland, in which the British government has taken a majority stake, has come under considerable fire from the Fleet Street tabloids for what some critics see as lavish treatment of corporate guests at events sponsored by the bank, including the Six Nations rugby tournament.

His report into the police service recommended a radical overhaul, and came under considerable fire from unionists who objected to proposals for a name change, a new badge, a new oath of allegiance and a new flag.

The gliders containing the airborne troops of the brigade landed in landing zones P, O, U and R under considerable antiaircraft fire, the landing being made even more difficult due to the presence of a great deal of haze and smoke.

"There is considerable firing going on outside," one spokesman briefed journalists.

Examination of ecological and human community resilience in fire adapted ecosystems suggests a social ecological system that is under considerable stress.

He was under considerable stress.

Both are now under considerable strain.