Sentence examples for without a bullet from inspiring English sources

The Libyan policemen opened the gate and let the tribesmen inside without a bullet being fired.

Warm-Up | Before class, write the following quotes on the board: "It's possible to strike deep at one's core without a bullet or a knife blade".

Farage's victory speech about the decent ordinary people taking back control "without a bullet fired" was unthinkably crass with an MP shot and stabbed to death in the heat of the campaign.

(The execution takes place. Cavaradossi falls to the ground) Tosca: I'm crying with laughter / You've just won a Bafta / For acting so dead / Without a bullet in your head.

But his sudden rise to replace South America's most authoritarian leader in the next day or so, without a bullet being fired, marked a new democratic opportunity for a country that has seen far more military coups than successful civilian governments.

Think of Nigel Farage basking in his 4AM victory, declaring "we won it without a bullet being fired" just ten days after a centre-left MP was shot.

A military doctor who treated the wounded would later describe it to Le Monde as like being in a war zone "without a bullet-proof vest".

"He is in a much better place now, a safe place, a place where he is free," said Dr. Tiller's son, Maury, who did not need to remind anyone at the service that his father rarely went in public without a bullet-proof vest.

They refused and abandoned us without firing a bullet," says a Yazidi economist.

It is also significant that the officers who abandoned Mosul and other areas without firing a bullet fled to Kurdistan.

Kids should be able to go around the corner to the park without meeting a bullet or drug dealer".