Sentence examples for warning fire from inspiring English sources

In response, the American ground troops shot short bursts of warning fire, which hit well shy of the checkpoint, and the Pakistanis fired back, said Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, a spokesman for the United States Central Command.

An Israeli spokeswoman said two "suspicious people" had approached the border fence and were shot by Israeli forces after they ignored shouted orders to halt and then warning fire.

Watch-and-act alerts were issued for bushfires at Warrabah near Tamworth and Tingha Plateau in the state's north-east with Fire and Rescue NSW warning fire activity was increasing in the area.

During the night, there were several long bursts of automatic gunfire nearby -- enemy gunfire, the Palsars were able to determine from the echo pattern -- and some of the local residents have begun testing the Israeli defenses as they did at the banquet hall, venturing from their houses, coming closer and closer on foot until they draw warning fire.

"After the attackers threw fire grenades and Molotov cocktails into the territory of the unit and opened fire on soldiers on guard, the national guard troops opened warning fire and then … as the attack was repeated they began shooting to kill," Avakov wrote.

A statement published on the Russian Federal Security Service website said the Greenpeace ship was maneuvering around the Prirazlomnaya oil platform, in the Russian economic zone in the Barents Sea, and ignored signals and warning fire from a coast guard ship.

Hours later, hundreds of riot police stormed the area without warning, firing tear gas, concussion grenades, rubber bullets and shotguns.

Human Rights Watch noted that "special police forces attacked without warning, firing indiscriminately at women, children and other noncombatants".

This report describes the experiments, their results, and the use of these results as they apply to early-warning fire sensors capable of the rapid and reliable detection of fires in atmospheres that may or may not be contaminated by either airborne dust or the products produced from diesel engines.

The first shots the victims heard had been warning shots fired to get them to keep their distance.

On our first trip here we were the targets of warning shots fired by nervous rebels outside this very building.