Sentence examples for were fired off from inspiring English sources

They were fired off from various high points in Paris; from the hill of Montmartre, the Buttes-Chaumont, Vincennes, the Parc Montsouris, with the richest display this year being sent up from the prominence of the Palais de Chaillot.

An average of 160,341 tweets per minute were fired off during last year's broadcast.

He leaped several times in his crease with his hands raised as streamers were fired off from the rafters.

Incidents in which guns were brought into schools but not fired there, or were fired off school grounds after having been possessed in schools, were not included.

A ministry spokesman said the missiles, with an estimated range of 200km (125 miles), were fired off the east coast of North Korea.

Still, even as Mr. Edwards and Dr. Dean avoided attacks in the debate, their campaigns, Mr. Edwards's in particular, were firing off attacks on Mr. Kerry in e-mail messages and statements handed out to reporters.

He also composes missives to be fired off to Dean supporters' cellphones.

So employees are quickly fired as press releases are fired off (even as male employees are not often fired for creating that atmosphere in the first place).

"Shelly went home and called me and said, 'I've been fired off the movie by Paul,' " Mr. McElwaine said.

We would hear gunfire or rockets being fired off during the night and we would close our eyes and pray.

He terminated the message and dispatched it with a sergeant to the communications center, to be fired off to Washington, with another copy going directly to Nimitz's headquarters.