Sentence examples for were fired against from inspiring English sources

A smaller number were fired against Belgium.

"On Thursday, some 40 rockets were fired against Israel from the strip, and today... just a few.

The attack began around midnight with rocket and artillery blasts -- dull thuds of scores of rounds that were fired against Iraqi artillery positions and an observation post on the high ground north of the dam.

Croatian sources estimated that 6,000 artillery shells were fired against Osijek over the period.

An estimated 10,500 shells were fired against Israeli targets in the first minute alone.

Tasers were fired against children by the Met ten times, including once at a 13-year-old child.

Two days later the first of more than 1,000 missiles was fired against London.

The first V-2 used in combat was fired against Paris on Sept. 6, 1944.

Two days later the first of more than 1,100 V-2s was fired against Great Britain (the last on March 27 , 1945.

But, he added, "once the first shot has been fired against them, they leap to their symbolic battle-stations.

Developed in Germany from 1936 through the efforts of scientists led by Wernher von Braun, it was first successfully launched on October 3, 1942, and was fired against Paris on September 6 , 1944