Sentence examples for upon police from inspiring English sources

They tried and failed to disarm him using tear gas, and after an armed, SWAT-like team was also fired upon, police shot Sigrid.

After they tried and failed to disarm him using tear gas and an armed SWAT-like team was also fired upon, police shot Sigrid.

For the next two days, they were armed Islamic revolutionaries, assaulting garrisons and firing upon police stations.

Despite considerable resentment concerning the extreme wealth gap, corruption, and the 26% unemployment rate in the country, public protests occurred sporadically and dissipated quickly upon police intervention.

Her office needs to undertake an intensive program to impress upon police officers the limits of their powers and the need to end the abuse.

The ex post facto attempt to impose such a conventional structure upon police mayhem formed the heart of the evidence at the Orgreave trial.

You can't be telling exhausted, depressed, put-upon police officers to dry their eyes or quit.

Nobody – bar maybe Charles Bronson – likes being set upon by police.

One of the PAC-organised demonstrations was fired upon by police, resulting in the deaths of 69 protesters in the Sharpeville massacre.

In Bulgaria, he and his friends were set upon by police dogs.

They depend upon the police and surveillance power unique to the modern bureaucratic state apparatus.