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As I attack, I weave from side to side, occasionally looping around the gunship I'm currently firing at.
It resulted in the death, by firing squad, of hundreds of striking farmhands inspired, in part, by anarchist immigrant rabble-rousers.
If you are in telecoms or telecoms equipment supply you are right there at the front of the firing line.
He said that, when the firing stopped, he saw people being carted off in ambulances to hospital.
However, in both the diaphragm and scalenes, the reduction in firing rate was most apparent in patients with high firing rates before surgery.
Cut outside showing Jake's airship firing several lasers into the hole torn into the ship in its initial pass.
The Viking's huge muscles were nearly as taut as the bowstring itself as he strained in bringing it back into firing position.
The technique of making majolica begins with firing a piece of earthenware.
During the second firing, the glazes interact creating the rich colors majolica pieces carry so well.
In July it reported three attempted boardings in less than a week, with pirates firing automatic weapons at two gas tankers and an oil tanker.
The firing mechanism mechanically fires the spotting rifle and uses a magneto to fire the rocket.
Church continued to drive the Humvee on three tires for four miles while firing at enemy targets and changing magazines with one hand.
The terminology refers to firearms capable of firing fully automatically, regardless of size, weight, or other considerations.
He was an enormous man, capable of firing an automatic rifle with only one hand or lifting me clear up off the ground.
The submerged firing of the missiles can be conducted in a single salvo while the submarine is moving at a speed of 5 knots.
Off Norway, Triton challenged a darkened submarine but failed to elicit a response before firing a salvo which sent Oxley to the bottom.
Walsh took the ball forward and off loaded to Coulter who had made a blistering run before firing over.
In such an extreme situation the Raptor sounds like a heavy machine gun firing in the distance.
It ends with Cusack throwing grenades and firing a machine gun to save her from pirates.
It can be fired single or double-action, and has an automatic safety that blocks the firing pin until the trigger is pulled.
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The main gun's normal firing circuit operates the firing mechanism of AIMTEST and all main gun safeties are operational.
The safeties include a firing pin block, safety notch on the hammer and the de-cock lever.
The militants attacked the camp around dawn, firing indiscriminately at guards posted at the main gate.
The pumping of pistons in a car engine firing up and down thousands of times per minute relies on heavy-duty lubrication.
A touch is all that is needed to lube delicate trigger mechanisms, firing pins, ejectors, extractors and springs.
The 3,400 tonne Anzac Class frigate was the 10th ship in the firing column, with HMAS Newcastle positioned astern.
Other footage showed an armed man firing single shots from an assault rifle at the back of the heads of 11 others.
Police firing rubber bullets and teargas dispersed the demonstrators, who gathered on the corner of Jeppe and Kruis streets.
The attack on Rommel's lines started with over 800 artillery guns firing at the German lines.
Even with the selector switch on semi auto, I was still firing just as fast as an automatic.
I turned around to meet with the gaze of the gunmen that were firing at me a minute ago.
Behind the armored cars, a couple of platoons of infantry came dashing out, firing rapidly.
The proportion of troops armed with more accurate, but slower firing, rifles remained low.
I clamped the Armalite under my arm, firing with one hand as I reached for the handle of the flare pistol tucked into my belt.
The Russians and Lithuanians were quite active as well, firing one rider after the next off the front.
Try your hand at coin-striking, archery or even crossbow firing and watch as the soldiers round up new recruits.
Once an archer downed a target, he nocked an arrow while relocating to another firing site.
Penalties are converted to an honor system, as in golf, allowing the NHL to save money by firing all the referees and linesmen.
The assailants apparently fled after firing on several homes in the settlement.
The hammer is equipped with a manual firing pin selector, which allows the shooter to use rimfire and centerfire barrels on the same frame.
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The Turkish battleship Turgud Reis manoeuvred in the Dardanelles to disrupt the Anzac landings, firing across the peninsula.
Steve Wilson's vibes are deep in the rhythm section's pocket, riffing or firing off spare, hanging chords.
He leapt up it as fast as he could, firing his last two revolver shots into the giant creature's head.
The striker was lethal with his finish, firing a beautiful curling shot that gave Williams no chance.
News of the firing only became public when the official retraction was published last month.
The security personnel then resorted to aerial firing to scare away the rioters, which prompted the Taliban militia to fire back in retaliation.
In the mid-to-late 1930s, Germany was able to annex nearby territories without firing a shot.
The live firing practices included rapid-fire shoots enabling reconnaissance members to practice accurate instinctive shooting.
Then the commander of the firing squad went forward and shot each in the forehead.
This launch vehicle carries a triple launcher which is raised for firing, with the armor plates moving to the side.
The exercises saw successful missile launches, artillery firing and torpedo runs.
In an instant, both guns were firing away, launching a volley of shells at the remaining enemy Genos.
For test firing, zeroing your rifle, or informal competition The Rock Jr. is tailor made for success.
The equaliser followed a great passing move, Jonny Greenwood latching on to a through ball from midfield and firing home.
The thugs raided the village and began firing their guns to terrorise the farmers.
Two torpedo tubes are designed for firing remote-controlled torpedoes with a very high accuracy.
The Vulcan works by firing a projectile at high speed into a landmine, ripping it apart without detonating the explosives.
At this stage a party of yeomanry opened fire and when the firing ceased 14 people, including a married woman and two boys were shot dead.
He began firing wildly, his silenced rounds lancing out, and hitting the wall all around the terrorists.
Those involved in the ambush said a trap had been laid, and that the area was marked with defensive earth berms and firing positions.
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They say, except for jobs creation, the economy was firing on all cylinders from July through September.
England have oozed that sort of confidence throughout this current campaign, and have carried on winning even when not firing on all cylinders.
On a technical level, Scorsese is firing on all cylinders, but emotionally the film is a bit distant.
Records are there to be broken and Celtic are firing on all cylinders just now.
The forward line needs to be firing on all cylinders, and the team's penalty corner drill needs to be imaginative and forceful.
There are exercises, refresher drills and firing practice on the ranges nearer the border.
The agreement contains no minimum manning levels, the right to employ casual labour, and management control over hiring and firing.
Rod winged another in the leg and he fell to a kneeling position still firing.
A woman on disability benefits narrowly missed being hurt by a youth firing an air rifle.
After rebuffing him, Gregory alleged, the pundit retaliated by reducing his pay and subsequently firing him.
After firing just a few digitally generated rounds I was able to rapidly laser range a target and take it out with an airburst.
With that he had walked over to the side of the court yard just to the rear of the firing squad.
I am writing to object, in the strongest possible terms, to the firing of the luminously talented writer from your agony column.
His deep, strong southern voice was getting wobbly, and his eyes welled as the realization of his firing a few weeks earlier sunk in.
It's used to patrol for trespassers, set up live firing targets and recover rounds from the sand and tidal flats.
Attack helicopters rattling low over the desert were especially terrifying, criss-crossing over the city and firing rockets into the centre.
Proprioceptor afferents project to the phrenic motor neurons and affect their firing rate.
For starters, Carlisle decided to attend the press conference announcing his firing, a rarity in today's game.
Replying to a question by the advocate, he said he had not seen his client firing the rifle.
The time between laser ranging the target and firing is approximately two seconds.
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He was out on the firing range and after 275 shots at the target, he hadn't hit it.
The experiment has been carried out since July on the vast military firing range at Dundrennan.
Soldiers can still take care of firing ranges and training areas, but the rest can be farmed out.
The U.S. military left firing ranges in the Panama Canal Zone littered with thousands of unexploded rounds.
The mortar can also be mounted in a vehicle, firing through the roof hatch, to keep pace with a mechanised advance.
Macdonald's telegram to the Adjutant General in Calcutta, sent late in the evening, was the first to give details of how the firing had begun.
In a passage on the war years, he includes the story about the single German air raider firing on the fish shop.
The snap of close on two hundred crossbows firing in a ragged volley was a sound like sharp applause.
We had an assigned firing bearing, and we went over the different trajectory options to get the best acquisition and kill.
He used to peel down to his jockstrap, muscles glistening, sly grin flashing, while firing cryptic answers at the media, which he loathed.
Invading foreign computer networks could shut down radars and electrical plants and disrupt telephone lines without firing a shot.
Gonzo Antreya fought for all he was worth, juking, jinking, firing lasers, launching missiles.
It showed an anti-aircraft missile unit firing at an allied warplane.
This time, however, we are all in the firing line for environmental reasons.
That leaves 36 the victims of the other units, including alfa, firing that day.
When you are firing out at night, the red tracers go out into the blackness as if you were drawing with a light pen.
A young officer loaded the rifles of the 12-man firing squad each with a single bullet, one of them a blank.
Much of the enemy firing, Liebling surmised, seemed to be coming from the blockhouse on the right that Rigg had singled out.
We analysed eye movements and neuronal firing in the abducens nucleus.
An Army doctor stepped over with a stethoscope and chastened the firing squad when he determined that the heart was still beating.
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Even more damnably, Mother Courage has the chance to save her son Swiss cheese from the firing squad by paying a ransom.
After the demonstrators threw rocks and paint bombs, police responded with overwhelming force, firing rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas before launching baton charges.
The rebels quietened crying children by firing their guns into the air.
Children have been firing questions to their new friends by email, quizzing them on how long it takes to get to class and what a typical school meal is made up of.
Later the lack of a common radio frequency among some units leaves Marines powerless to prevent another unit from firing on defenseless civilians.
He was standing in front of the firing squad when his sentence was commuted to exile in Siberia.
These agents provocateurs broke windows and carried out other acts of violence before turning on the other demonstrators, firing their weapons and making arrests.
We also couldn't go firing darts willy-nilly as they are very powerful.
Now he is his own man, hardened and scarred by backbench rebellions, geopolitical scraps and a hostile media firing on him from both left and right.
A swath of regular military allies have sought postponements or rejected the idea of firing missiles toward Damascus.
We shouldn't wonder at the sight of women holding the shotgun and firing.
Liverpool were still not firing on all cylinders, but were looking good enough to get the win and, at this stage of the season, that's all that matters.
Brinsley stepped up to the passenger side of the patrol car, raised a silver Taurus semi-automatic pistol and began firing.
He was ambushed by two men firing shotguns as his cab pulled up outside.
A man firing a repeating rifle faces a man wielding a sword.
After firing the launcher is reloaded in under four minutes.
In addition to the changes you mention, a free labor market would require rescinding any laws that prohibit an employer from firing any worker at any time for any reason.
The main approaches to execution since the guillotine have been hanging, the firing squad, and the electric chair.
This one has a simple leaf spring installed below the firing pin.
Practical application filled the last two days, as the leathernecks fired computerized scenarios and practiced on the tracking and firing systems at an outdoor trainer.
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They are hard anodized to resist wear, and in place of a primer is an extremely tough material that cushions the firing pin and is said to be good for 3,000 impacts.
The Clan came out firing on all cylinders in the first game.
The humans stopped firing, slinging their smoking rifles on their backs.
A bullet had struck a femoral artery and it was gushing blood as she kept firing.
The four deaths were all as a result of firing anti-tank missiles!
Lite can be used as a hand-held system, fitted to weapons such as machine guns, or used as a tracker for anti-aircraft or anti-tank missile firing posts.
The firing of a new executive brought in to shake up the flailing show is getting dead-movie-star tabloid coverage.
Olympian Kevin Jackson later accused du Pont of firing him from Team Foxcatcher for being black.
Turkish gendarmes ran past me, shouting at the refugees to clear off, firing more canisters for good measure.
Keep in mind that Carter, as a Senate-confirmed appointee, is not in the firing line of furloughs.
Indeed he treasured his relationship with the conservative icon Bill Buckley, whom he debated repeatedly on firing line.
As the last line of defense, the goalkeeper is also first in the firing line when blame and retribution are meted out.
And Charles has had to face a firing squad of questions demanding to know why he left, how he could do this to us.
Lumet considered firing Dunaway after she flubbed her way through her dialogue.
The competition itself plays out like a game show with one nation firing off musical shots against another while surrounding beer drinkers roar with approval.
Residents said tanks rolled down their street firing into their homes.
You can even attempt to subdue a suspect by flashing your badge or firing a couple of rounds into the air in hopes of scaring the sucker into compliance.
However, the rapid firing assault rifle proved most useful in ambushes.
It sounded heartfelt and returned him to the good graces of GLAAD, the gay-rights group that had originally called for his firing.
She supported the creation of watchdogs to look for graft in government, firing those who improperly profited.
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The P99 has the customary passive firing pin and disconnector safeties.
Would she shrink from firing at a Serb setting off an artillery piece if he had eyebrows like Katarina Witt?
At the same time, Iraqi potters developed luster glazes by adding metallic elements to the surface of the glazed piece before a second firing in the kiln.
Now the same company has announced a takedown version of the Winchester Model 1892 lever gun, and I can't wait to get my hands on one for test firing.
We fired a couple of salvoes at what we thought was the Bismarck before the Prince of Wales said we were firing at the wrong ship and we changed over.
It sounded to me like an automatic rifle, firing about every second.
Pantyhose hinders the detection of the chemicals preventing the nematocysts from firing.
Finally Supervisor level 2 expands on that, allowing firing from barges, bridges, rooftops and over unusual sites.
A bayonet made firing difficult, as its cumbersome shape hampered ramming down the charge into the barrel.
The English then closed, firing repeated and damaging broadsides into the enemy ships.
Daltrey clashed with Johns over the production of his vocals, and Moon's drumming was so poor that Daltrey and Entwistle considered firing him.
Flagpoles on many tors in and around the ranges fly red flags when firing is taking place.
The author describes and illustrates the more primitive and inexpensive technologies of raku, sagger, sawdust, pit, and above-ground firing.
Workman, over the firing of Nancy McIntosh from the production of Fallen Fairies, and with actress Henrietta Hodson.
Kevin Bartlett excelled from placed balls, with the Lovat clubman firing over six two-pointers, including five in the opening half.
In sigma-1 KO animals, a reduced afterhyperpolarization results in a higher firing frequency and a stronger muscle contraction.
In Victoria, Australia after World War II, many steam locomotives were converted to heavy oil firing.
Both the maximum temperature and the duration of firing influences the final characteristics of the ceramic.
Bryan got a shotgun and tried to scare off the wolves by firing into the air, but that strategy backfired.
Parts of Dartmoor have been used as military firing ranges for over 200 years.
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If no decoration is applied, biscuit or glost firing is the final operation in manufacture.
He kept firing, yelling to Mace to follow Gallegos back to the Humvee.
The OSCE team did not radio in or record the Russian mortar team firing on Ukrainian positions.
On 1 December 2014, an OSCE observer was injured by Ukrainian counter artillery fire while observing militants firing at Ukrainian forces.
He heard the firing and as he walked he felt it in the pit of his stomach as though it echoed on his own diaphragm.
In her Cambrian Explosion series, the firing covers most of the pieces' surfaces with a rough matte surface.
Downstairs there was a kitchen common to all lodgers, with free firing and a supply of cooking-pots, tea-basins, and toasting-forks.
After the pots have been glazed, they go back into the kiln for a second firing.
It's out of the frying pan and into the firing line for Prince Harry.
Eight or so gunmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the gray-white trail before the barn, firing into the saloon's burning, bullet-pocked facade.
Cannon Fodder should be firing on all cylinders for the Birthday Girls' Celebration Mares' Handicap Hurdle at Towcester.
But just as suddenly as it appeared, the firing squad cars were gone.
The doctor checked again as the firing squad began to reload.
The PM would then broadcast a firing order to the SSBN submarines via the Very Low Frequency radio station at Rugby.
The fourth gun resumed firing intermittently in the afternoon, and its garrison surrendered on 7 June.
Judge Les Spittle said the gun was a convincing weighty replica but effectively a cap gun incapable of firing anything.
The cliffs were defended by the German 352nd Infantry Division and French collaborators firing from above.
He laid into the Whigs as freebooters, swindlers and conmen but Peel's own Free Trade policies were directly in the firing line.
But for tantrum-throwing singer Justin Bieber, a tattooed dude was just one of the many people in his recent firing line to boss around.
The World Bank ranks the United States first in the ease of hiring and firing workers.
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Different types of clay, when used with different minerals and firing conditions, are used to produce earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain.
Both armies blamed the other for firing first and denied entering the other's territory.
Murat would attempt to regain his throne but was quickly captured and executed by firing squad in Pizzo, Calabria.
Afonso made a bold approach to the city, his ships decorated with banners, firing cannon volleys.
His depiction of the injustices of Spanish rule, and his death by firing squad, inspired other Filipino revolutionaries to seek independence.
They developed serial firing technique to create a continuous rain of bullets on the enemy.
In comparison, the Portuguese guns were light, had a matchlock firing mechanism, and were easy to aim.
The matchlock which appeared roughly around 1475 changed this by adding a firing mechanism consisting of two parts, the match, and the lock.
During repeated firing, guns could become clogged and explode, which could be dangerous to the gunner and those around him.
The crew of the Endymion reported that they had been searching for five or six hours, firing their cannon every ten minutes.
In balancing the harms, the greater harm to be avoided is a violent suspect firing and killing a police officer or any other bystander.
Sintering is part of the firing process used in the manufacture of pottery and other ceramic objects.
One method of inhibiting or ending a strike is firing union members who are striking which can result in elimination of the union.
The firing is begun at the bottom of the flue, and gradually spreads outwards and upwards.
Hills provide a major advantage to an army, giving them an elevated firing position and forcing an opposing army to charge uphill to attack them.
Mickle Fell and surrounding moorland forms part of the Warcop Training Area, a Ministry of Defence firing range.
In the 1920s this land was turned into rifle, grenade and field firing ranges and the core of a camp for the troops using these facilities.
The firing point normally is at a defined point on the ground, and on a civilian range will usually be level and flat.
Outdoor ranges without a covered firing point are usually grass, often on a slightly raised, flattened mound.
Usually the top is at least five degrees in elevation from the 100m firing line.
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More information about reducing occupational exposures at indoor firing ranges can be found at NIOSH Firing Range topic page.
Then they continued firing at the prisoners, many of whom were now struggling to get back inside the blocks.
Rufinamide exhibits its anticonvulsant effects through limiting neuronal sodium-dependent action potential firing.
He had been pulling the trigger of his slugthrower all this time, but now the firing pin clicked at last upon an empty firing chamber.
As an example, firing strong-handed from the Weaver stance, we have our left foot forward and the right foot to the rear.
With a brief psionic push, Nova teeked them aside and into the rock, firing her rifle at the soft areas just above the creature's rib cage.
The firing of a truck load of meat and two cases of assault enlived the strike of the meat wagon drivers yesterday.
Police however were able to disperse the revelers by among other things firing warning shots in the air.
The mechanism by which acetylcholine receptors on axons lower neurons' firing thresholds remains uncertain, Metherate says.
However, Fenelon was not so clinical as his strike partner, waywardly firing over the bar when played through one-on-one.
The visitors threatened to increase their lead, Josh Banks firing over before Mackin saved acrobatically from Owen''s strike.
Worn breech assembly components can cause the firing pin to protrude past the face of the breechblock.
During the First World War, eleven men were tried in private and shot by firing squad at the Tower for espionage.
Primer brisance mostly depends on the length of the flame that leaps out of the flash-hole after the firing pin whacks the primer cup.
You will be firing down on them, and you can use everything you have, even mortars. You will cut them to pieces.
Bill accidentally faxed sensitive documents to our competitors, and such a major-league mess-up could only be dealt with by firing Bill.
Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
After firing that off, he clumsily asked what a plantation mentality is.
The 25-year-old helped comrades in the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards advance by firing an antitank missile when he was shot in south Aghanistan.
Unfortunately, there were subsidence problems and concerns that the concussion from firing the guns was causing the cliffs to crumble.
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Forced by a hostile crowd to flee Mozambique, da Gama departed the harbor, firing his cannons into the city in retaliation.
The video also showed Kim Jong Un navigating a tank, observing fighter jets and firing exercises, and posing for photographs with soldiers.
Mobile defenses could be had underwater, too, in the form of nuclear submarines capable of firing missiles.
The process was selfperpetuating as the gas was used for heating tar tanks and for firing carbonisation ovens, which would generate more gas.
He installed a system of electrical firing so that all guns could be fired simultaneously, making Ocean the first vessel to be so equipped.
Paul, in Mdina, and featured torchlight processions, the firing of 100 petards, horseraces, and races for men, boys and slaves.
Victory's gunners were called on deck to fight boarders, and she ceased firing.
Meanwhile, Carlton coach Brett Ratten is delighted to have star man Chris Judd fit and firing again.
His torpedo ran on water with a rocket system filled with explosive gunpowder materials and had three firing points.
On firing, some of the hot gases from burning powder were able to bypass the overpowder and filler wads and reach the shot charge.
The results of the battle confirmed the value of firing guns by centralised director.
Warships of the period were armed with guns firing projectiles of varying weights, bearing high explosive warheads.
However, their ships proved difficult to sink despite severe damage and impressed the British with the quality of their firing.
Before they could complete the turn, they were sighted by British destroyers who commenced firing.
The sound of firing alerted the remaining German destroyers, who had been moving north, but turned south towards home.
By the end of the month, Japanese artillery were firing shells into the harbour.
After twenty minutes' firing the fishermen saw a blue light signal on one of the warships, the order to cease firing.
Supplementary firing raises the temperature of the exhaust gas from 800 to 900 degree Celsius.
His pal, Mr. Bruce, wound up firing them, went lawyerless, and botched his appeal.
He knocked on the door of the Sash Assembly of God in Texas and began firing when it was opened.
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The use of large supplementary firing in Combined Cycle Systems with high gas turbine inlet temperatures causes the efficiency to drop.
Maximum supplementary firing refers to the maximum fuel that can be fired with the oxygen available in the gas turbine exhaust.
Parliamentarian troops then used the cathedral to stable their horses and damaged much of the ornate sculpture by using it for firing practice.
The man firing the gun turned his weapon on the larger target, giving Jenna the chance to pull out of the kill zone using the Suburban as cover.
They showed diagrams on how to make nuclear firing circuits and radioactive cores of atom bombs.
Using supplemental firing will however not raise the combined cycle efficiency for most combined cycles.
Clearing the area of jelly, tentacles, and wetness further reduces nematocyst firing.
The interior video shows the gunman firing the shot through the window.
As a consequence, he was sent to the Chief Artillery Administration in Moscow and the research firing ground in Kolomna.
These wares were not yet actual porcelain wares as they were not hard nor vitrified by firing kaolin clay at high temperatures.
The 21-year-old is shooting Labor Pains, playing an assistant at a publishing house who pretends to be pregnant to keep her boss from firing her.
The lacquerware gives us a broader color selection than porcelain, because it does not require a firing process.
Without the cover, the connec-tor has no protection against moisture or backblast from rockets firing.
Make up some moderate to light loads and then after firing them in your rifle you should not full length resize this brass.
Chris Innes, Ryan McGuffie and Ryan Baldachino were on target for the Borders side with Scott McLaughlin firing home Moreton's consolation goal.
According to reports, heavy firing was reported from the Hamirpur, Mendhar and Barasingha sectors of Poonch in Jammu.
The atmosphere within a kiln during firing can affect the appearance of the finished wares.
The soldiers responded to a barrage of stones by firing into the crowd, killing between 13 and 50 people.
Firing pottery can be done using a variety of methods, with a kiln being the usual firing method.
The colour of a glaze after it has been fired may be significantly different from before firing.
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Defensive firing galleries were built along the southern side of the castle.
Prior to firing, some surfaces are burnished using various levigated slips.
When he saw a second machinegun firing, he took a Lewis gun and found a high point on the parapet from where he could engage the gun.
The troops were lined up on deck, firing musket volleys, with full colours flying and the military bands playing.
Brother of deceased Sana while complaining the police told that her sister was on bed rest due to ailment and suddenly firing started.
He wore a brush cut that looked like static electricity firing up from his pink skull.
In April 2017, BAE Systems announced six successful firings by the Typhoon in 2016, including a simultaneous firing of two Meteor missiles.
Pakistani troops initially exercised restraint however, responded befittingly when India started heavy firing.
This eliminates the requirement for the firing aircraft to maintain radar lock, and thus greatly reduces risk.
High probability of kill also requires firing to usually occur from the rear hemisphere of the target.
The officers at the antaircraft school preferred Case I to Case III firing even when the modern Buffi equipment is employed.
British and German aircraft tended to use a mix of machine guns and autocannon, the latter firing explosive projectiles.
These tests involved firing large amounts of ordnance at the frontal arc of T-80Us and T-90s, with and without Kontakt-V reactive armor.
Now 14, Taira does not remember the incident clearly, but the ongoing firing near the border does not let her forget the pain either.
When I'm on a covered firing line, shared with multiple rifleshooters, I wish we all had silencers on our rifles to save our collective hearing.
Officers from Cleveland Police caught two teenage boys on CCTV firing what looked like air guns at the outdoor games area on Broadwell Road, Easterside, Middlesbrough.
George went on a punitive expedition against Constantinople, but could not land and instead defied the Byzantine emperor by firing arrows against the palace windows.
As mayor of Springfield for 10 years, I am appalled by the city's firing of Thelma Barone, who was hired in 2003 to build trust between the city and the Latino community.
Upon detecting firedamp the candle is lowered and arrangements made for the ventilating of the area or the deliberate firing of the firedamp after the end of a shift.
The aggressive nature of his innings meant the righthander rode his luck at times but while he was firing at the crease, there was still a chance.
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Arrowslits and barbicans were incorporated into the defences, with multiple firing platforms built into the walls to allow the massed use of archers.
For about an hour, the Afonso was able to sustain a disadvantageous battle with the Indian ships, firing nearly 400 rounds and hitting two of the enemy vessels.
It proved the cue for a period of implosion from Wigan, who fell two behind shortly after the hour courtesy of Boyce's costly error, Young firing in unerringly from the spot.
This variant retained the twin, synchronized Marlin guns firing forward through the propeller and the twin moveable Lewis guns on a scarff ring firing to the rear.
The Home Department of Gilgit-Baltistan has banned public gatherings, rallies, display of arms, aerial firing, disputed sloganeering, and illegal use of loud speakers.
The Dutch fleet, no longer under threat, left without firing a shot.
Two officers and five other ranks were killed or died of wounds, but the guns continued firing under local control and communications were maintained.
On 9 October, Clary was liberated and the next day the divisional artillery was firing in support of the 33rd which had made contact with German forces.
The dock was protected by a wall later named the Gunners Walk and a firing platform that may have housed a trebuchet siege engine during the medieval period.
Deep passages and tunnels now connected the blockhouses and firing points in the ditch to the fort proper, with magazines and machine rooms deep under the surface.
Steaming faster than merchant ships and firing at long ranges, a single battleship could destroy many ships in a convoy before the others could scatter over the horizon.
The stationary firing of the first-stage development solid rocket motor, dubbed DM-2, was the most heavily instrumented solid rocket motor test in NASA history.
An impressive goal against Newcastle apart, Sterling has been out of sorts recently and with him not firing Liverpool look decidedly beatable, as does Sterling.
This was the location of the control room from which the bomb would be detonated, along with the equipment to monitor the firing circuits and telemetry.
Two bodies were recovered from the Crail wreckage and, after a full military funeral with firing party, were interred in Portobello cemetery, Edinburgh.
If he asks for longer, then you start the blackmail by saying you've been honest with him by fronting it up before the deal rather than firing him afterwards.
The bully is firing snot rockets. He holds his head back and blocks one nostril with his finger, blowing out the other one. Small hard gobs of mucus are flying around him.
In theory at least, the direct-fire mortar could engage helicopters at close ranges by firing HE rounds with variable time fuses to achieve an air burst.
As noted above, Crain's argument is that employers, where possible, select at-will employment, thereby maintaining the option of firing without cause.
These guns were rather ancient and had limited capabilities, with an effective lethal range of about 50 meters, and a firing rate of about two rounds per minute.

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