Sentence examples for woundings from inspiring English sources

Most intentional firearms discharges by police result in either total misses or woundings.

Muggings are up, thanks in part to the appeal of portable gizmos such as camera phones and MP3 players, but murders and serious woundings are in remission.

The victims of the police killings and woundings, and those who were routinely arrested on fabricated evidence and charges, were young, poor, working-class, African Americans or Latinos, some of whom were recent immigrants.

While Daniel's agenda was to avenge Soll, his co-owners of the fight on the Handa side were out to avenge Limbuzu's death and Wiyo's blinding; the Ombals aimed at avenging Sande's death and Isum's wounding in the same battle in which Soll and Limbuzu had been killed; and both sides sought vengeance for accumulated unavenged deaths and maimings and woundings from earlier battles.

A black male teenager is twice as likely to be unemployed as his white equivalent and six times more likely to be murdered, and there have been nearly 3,000 gang-related killings and 15,000 woundings since 1980.

Rebus gets there just in time to save his daughter, though not without being shot - the first of the many woundings, beatings and physical mishaps which befall him in Rankin's books.

The depiction of the big society as laissez-faire by another name seems wrong.There are more wounding criticisms of the vision, though.

Every time Mr Miliband answers a question, meanwhile, it seems an implicit reminder that Mr Brown rarely does.Conversely, the most wounding attacks on Mr Brown have come from people with no realistic prospect of replacing him.

Hamas's rockets continue to fly, though in smaller numbers.From Antwerp to Warsaw, demonstrators' placards have ranged from criticism of Israeli policy ("1,2,3,4, Occupation No More") to denouncing Israel itself ("5,6,7,8, Israel is a Terror State") to the most wounding anti-Semitism ("Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the Gas").

These include the predictable, such as the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, as well as those closer to home: a parliamentary committee dominated by Labour MPs has condemned the government's plans as unrealistic and environmentally unsustainable.The most wounding criticism has come, however, from Lord Rogers, an architect involved in the government's urban task force.

When David Cameron, the prime minister, referred to Mr Miliband as a "son of Brown" last year, it was a vivid and wounding jibe.