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Example sentences for: firing

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Shelton felt that the August 1998 attacks had proved a waste of good ordnance and thereafter consistently opposed firing expensive Tomahawk missiles merely at "jungle gym" terrorist training infrastructure.
The firing of the European Commission "would leave the EU institutionally crippled only 14 days after the birth of the European single currency," it said.
He began by "firing" Yeltsin's daughter, eliciting oohs and aahs from the world press, even though everyone expects her to stay on as an informal adviser.
Believe whom you will, but it's Jerry who behaved most caddishly by reading a yet-to- close story about himself, requesting corrections, firing his publicist, and afterwards--his stated pleasure in the story notwithstanding--leaving both writer and magazine twisting in the wind publicly by not taking the blame for wanting to check out the piece in advance.
I heard of several hundred people hiding in a cave that once formed an old marble quarry, being taunted from outside by men firing machine-pistol volleys into the air.