Sentence examples for would be shot down from inspiring English sources

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In the context of climate change, such cases were once derided as frivolous long shots that would be shot down quickly.

The plane would be shot down over the Atlantic".

It looked like Europe's big guns would be shot down by Jimmy Walker and Rickie Fowler.

Theprime minister, Binali Yıldırım, declared the first stage of the coup over and said coup fighters using military helicopters would be shot down.

"I think they didn't launch the missile because they may be worried it would be shot down," Kim said, adding: "North Korea may abruptly fire the missile early one morning".

"That was always our worst nightmare: that a civilian airliner would be shot down by one," former CIA director David Petraeus said this week, calling the development a "big deal".

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But whenever I'd bring up making a change, I'd be shot down.

I saw this again and again, that when alternate viewpoints were put out there, or even the idea of debate, they'd be shot down really quickly.

The Unclaimed documentary came about after Vietnam veteran Tom Faunce heard about an "army brother" who'd been shot down 40-years earlier, listed as deceased in action and "forgotten about by the US government".

My peripatetic widowed mother's remarriage, in 1945, to a handsome, bemedalled and beshrapnelled Army Air Forces ace who'd been sent to the healing desert to cap a year-long hospitalization (he'd been shot down five days after D Day) appeared to have grounded her.

After casting him, they told Thompson's agent that Thompson needed a hair cut, because at the start the Alien Bounty Hunter was supposed to be a kind of military pilot who'd been shot down.

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