Sentences with phrase «firing squad»

And we sure as hell can not afford this circular firing squad in the face of what I believe is an enemy force.

Some families are lucky to be embraced by a natural parenting community, while others face a virtual firing squad questioning, of all things, their diapering choices.

But in doing so, he'll once again put himself in front of the state's Republican firing squad.

Free speech must not become a circular firing squad.

Picard makes a bargain Bonet simply can't dismiss: Picard will offer himself up to save the 100, and enjoy a few days of freedom, as well as dying by firing squad instead of the nasty guillotine.

Sculptures of sandbags are taken from a newspaper article about Utah's re-instatement of firing squads as a means of capital punishment.

In 1945, Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis (he was executed by firing squad in October 1945).

«Florida legislator introduces bill to replace lethal injection with firing squad as execution method Main «Should sentences reflect the will of the public?»»

Indonesia already has some of the toughest anti-narcotics laws in the world, including death by firing squad for traffickers, and sparked international uproar in April when it put to death seven foreign drug convicts.

Pellizzi: And we kept shooting from different angles as if it was a processional firing squad just trying to make paintings.

His jockeying could turn New York into a circular firing squad with Gov. Cuomo obviously poised to run; plus Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has been relentlessly raising money this summer; plus State AG Eric Schneiderman, who has friends in Hollywood, where Norman Lear has hosted fund - raisers for him.

The daylight saving discount - orama, meanwhile, represents the reality Macy's is struggling to transcend — a circular firing squad where big retailers that offer very similar products can lure shoppers only by slashing their prices.

Now that the US faces a shortage of pentobarbital, the drug used in lethal injections, some states have considered alternative means like firing squads.

But the regulations first in line for the new administration's firing squad appear chiefly onerous to large corporations, particularly in industries like energy.

They ki11ed more than 90 million people in peace time usually by firing squad because they disagreed with them politically.

She was killed by German firing squad in 1915; a year later, Canada renamed the 11,033 - foot «Mountain of the Great Crossing» in her honor.

With Trump's victory and successful nomination of Neil Gorsuch, agency fees could soon be facing the Supreme Court firing squad once again.

They demolish enemy planes, hand - deliver explosive packages, launch missiles at helicopters, turn the tables on firing squads.

Stalin and Mao generally killed people thru famine, not firing squad.

But he hit his full stride with The Power and the Glory (1940), the story of a whiskey priest during the Mexican Revolution, tormented by his own cowardice and weakness, who eventually dies, after one act of religious heroism, in front of a Communist firing squad.

We also have contractual agreements with the military in the state to get near - instant relief for overworked fire squads in the form of military trained fire relief, plus the added bonus of military grade equipment, such as dump planes that scoop water out of the Pacific.

More than 3,700 men and women now reside on America's 39 — one federal and 38 state — death rows; 717 individuals have been executed by lethal injection, electrocution, poison gas, hanging and firing squad since Gary Gilmore's death in 1977, and the 85 individuals put to death last year ranked the United States third in the world, behind China and Saudi Arabia.

A recent bill sponsored by Andy Gipson suggests including firing squads, electrocution and lethal gas chambers.

With no fruit, brown sugar, or maple syrup to mask the flavor and texture, my melodramatic teenaged self felt as though she was facing the proverbial firing squad.

I think this would be a real transfer coup for Wenger and Arsenal, as long as it does not mean that we lose any of our current stars to what is likely to be some serious spending by the City owners to revamp their aging and under fire squad.

Drafted in 2000, he won Rookie of the Year for the»00 Fire squad which won the US Open Cup and came one unbelievable Tony Meola performance away from winning MLS Cup.

In school food services, a kind of circular firing squad exists where everybody blames everybody else for the horrible quality of the food kids eat, but nobody is really to blame because they're all «dedicated» and «working hard.»

«I don't think the circular firing squad helps.»

Nat described a circular firing squad involving FERC, NRC, DEC, and the EPA diffusing the blame by saying the others had approved the project.

Bitter disappointment for Ed Miliband and a political disaster for Nick Clegg led to both men quitting, and are sure to lead to months of soul searching for their parties as they mourn the loss of some of their most famous faces - felled by a brutal electoral firing squad.

His knighthood was revoked the day before his execution by a revolutionary firing squad in 1989.

A Statement detailing the action of General Buratai, signed by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, said, «The death sentences by firing squad passed on 66 soldiers in January and March 2015 by separate General Court Martials have been commuted to 10 years imprisonment each.

That sequence, along with later ones showing hooded hostages subjected to fake firing squads, try to lend some gravity as a counterweight to the movie's prankish tone.

James Franco faced a comedic firing squad last night during Comedy Central's Roast of James Franco.

Watch take our (almost) all - girl fire squad through a maze of trenches in the war - torn Barious Desert.

The chemistry between Falk and Arkin is sublime, while the final act in Honduras with Libertini is a giggly riot that just gets better and better as the sequence progresses to its heart - stopping (and undeniably silly) conclusion featuring firing squads, blindfolds, last cigarettes and several millions in missing cash.

It's tough stuff, no doubt, but can it stand up to a close - range air pistol firing squad?

For those who are unfamiliar with the title, Furious 4 was an entry in the highly acclaimed WWII franchise Brothers in Arms, one which had an untimely death at the hands of the development firing squads.

Minh Khai was killed by a French firing squad in 1941 not because she was a woman but because she was a bourgeois Vietnamese woman deeply involved in an anti-colonial revolution.

Maybe Manet knew that the actual firing squad cheerfully posed for a group portrait.

The first to fall victim to his violent impulses were his political opponents, who were executed en masse, after show trials, by Nazi - like firing squads.

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The group was believed to have been tortured and executed before a German firing squad.

I think he was a dangerous robber and would have been hanged or shot by firing squad, had he been alive today.

Eliminators — luckily for Wisconsin, the CFP top 10 is a circular firing squad of hellfire, brimstone, and mutually assured destruction.