Sentences with phrase «shot in a duel»

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Hamilton has been shot and killed in his duel with Aaron Burr.

Carefully itemizing mercantile bills of sale, inventories of militia and volunteer detachments, the evidence that there was a lack of gun - smiths, records of importation of guns from Europe, the incidence of duels (three in the entire South in the 1760s, none fatal), children's books and toys, comments by eyewitnesses about the abysmal shooting ability of settlers (lacking both the weapons and the gunpowder to practice), court records, and a wide variety of other historiographical resources, the author assembles an overwhelming mass of data to show that military prowess was not, in fact, characteristic of early Americans.

That stinging shot by Rosicky reminded me of that rocket against spuds at the lane last season!!!! And Le Coc, well, he showed those cave - dwellers another side of our game with him in the side... not as immobile as flamini and not as soft as Arteta... a combination of a good passer and a tough tackler... and he wins over 80 % of headed duels... i loved that step - over that resulted to a yellow to some rugby player too... what a win!!!

Alli had just one shot, made one cross in what was an extremely disappointing performance as he didn't win a single tackle or aerial duel.

Bournemouth have an attacking philosophy which is reflected in their stats: they are mid table with 12 shots per game, they try to own possession against smaller teams and have 50 % on average this season, they are 8th in passing success rate with 81 %, they are second to last in aerial duels with just 12 per game... they are 19th in tackles, 16th in interceptions, they are 8th in dribbles, and 3rd in drawing fouls.

And in terms of shot accuracy (67 per cent to 48 per cent), pass competition (90 per cent to 78 per cent), successful take - ons (58.44 per cent to 48.15 per cent) and total duels (53.88 per cent to 52.41 per cent), the Spaniard beats Bale too.

Pedro managed a 65 % shot accuracy and, in addition, won 40 % of his duels.

He had been shot once in the stomach — during a duel — and died in Cochin Hospital the next day.

The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry Mario Livio; Simon & Schuster, $ 26.95 «I have no time,» wrote 20 - year - old mathematician Évariste Galois in 1832, and he was promptly shot dead in a pistol duel.

From his first feature, Thief, through his TV series Miami Vice and Crime Story to the epic cops and robbers duel in Heat, Mann has shown himself a poet of shoot»em up mayhem.

And after shooting his mouth off, Nick must prove that he is the top gun of the crew in a marksmanship duel.

Filmed in 35 mm and set in the year Spielberg shot his debut, Duel, it's a finely simulated addendum to his Seventies filmography.

These devices allow the wearer to move around in three - dimensional space by shooting duel grapple hooks into nearby objects and propelling them into the air.

After the usual rigamarole about shooting challenges and directorial perfectionism, someone asked Zhang Yimou what he thought the film was about, which he either answered honestly or deftly dodged by asserting that what he wanted people to take from the film, long after they've forgotten the plot, are the memories of certain images: two women in red fighting among swirling yellow leaves, two sorrowful men flying and dueling on a lake as still as a mirror, a sky of black arrows, a desert moonscape haunted by lonely figures in white.

Directed by Ralph Nelson and starring James Garner, «Duel» isn't exactly an anti-Western but it is a pretty nervy piece for its time, delving into issues of race and sex that had been strictly taboo in decades of cowboy - and - Indian - and - cavalry shoot - em - ups.

It seems that brawls and duels will appear as in - game activities, as many of the shots showing these looked like they were recorded through regular gameplay, but were edited to be shown from different angles and without UI to fit the cinematic feel of the trailer.

A press conference for «The Grandmaster 3D» was held in Shenzhen, with director Wong Kar - wai announcing that Tony Leung and Chang Chen «s duel will appear for the first time, calling it «a shot that is worth more than gold».

Following in a long line of recent films that shoot for comedic but are filled with characters that are so obnoxious or absurd that no real person could ever relate to their antics, the duelling parents - to - be of New Year's Eve are perhaps the most appalling.

As the story moves forward with Anna — in town while Clinch robs a stagecoach — teaching Albert to shoot in order to beat Foy at a duel, the jokes become scarcer as the screenwriters abandon almost any effort at humor when matters of the plot are concerned and less effective as the movie's own comic formula runs its course.

He could only tell Wong Kar - wai to wait 4 months for him; thus Wong Kar - wai could only head to the Northeast of China and shoot the Zhang Ziyi train station duel first, but he ran into the coldest winter in history.

Ritualistic duels are neatly shot in the style of classic kung - fu films — mid-shots and long takes — so that viewers can follow the action.

Duel mode acts like a boss rush mode as it allows players to relive the duels featured in the campaign mode without the riffraff's of going through the shooting gallery of cannon fodder enemies.

As is made clear in the song «Ten Duel Commandments»: «Most disputes die and no one shoots».