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98 examples of Artillery in a sentence

Once you do that, your artillery becomes accurate.
But heavy artillery is nothing new in terrorist operations.
Now what we have to imagine is the mental artillery that we have picked up over those hundred years, and I think again that another thinker will help us here, and that's Luria.
And there's artillery, and artillery are archers, but, more importantly, slingers.
And at that point the Taliban had an air force, they had fighter planes, they had tanks, they had artillery, and we really got hammered pretty badly a couple of times.
I mean, how did a machine that was built for accounting and artillery morph into media?
Computers were used for artillery first, then IRS.
Take the late 19th-century French 75-millimeter artillery piece.
And it won't do any good to bring in the tanks and the artillery because those T-cells don't recognize it either.
A mosque in northern Bosnia was destroyed by Serbian artillery and was used as a makeshift morgue.
Nor does it mention that 20,000 civilians have died due exclusively to US artillery.
Two brothers, real-life ones (one of them being Marc Recha himself), re-enact a fictional version of a real-life journey they had made through the spectacular Catalan countryside, and history is evoked (pans of bullet-holed walls, artillery booms on the soundtrack) but not shown.
Anyone apologising gets a faceful of heavy verbal artillery).
From the minuscule and unconvincing set (snipers seem to be about ten meters away) apparently made of plaster, to the actors who are also apparently made of plaster with "amusing" stereotypes painted thinly on top, to the oddly warm pool in a frozen cave, to the survival of the cast uninjured when medium artillery shells burst a few meters away on open ground, and finally the awful script that reads like a training manual more than a film....
Victor Mature, as a barely civilized and mostly out of control mountain man and trapper, may be on the poster, but Robert Preston as a failed Union colonel who led his men to get "cut to ribbons" by Confederate artillery at Shiloh, and is sent to a fort in Oregon for his incompetence, has the most interesting part, married to a young and hard to recognize at first Anne Bancroft.
It puts to shame such films as "Aliens" or "Armageddon" that are content to inundate the viewer with special effects while their plots revolve around stunts that butcher the laws of physics, testosterone-laden one-liners, heroes equipped with enough artillery to conquer Iraq, and pathetic attempts to inject "meaning" into the barrage on screen with "emotional sequences" that only serve to further insult the intelligence of the audience.
With his army of Mexican revolutionaries, he attacks Pershing, kills his men and steals some valuable artillery pieces.
I love this film for its beautiful photography, its humor and its attenuated criticism of the Bad Guys (Berbers) and the REAL Bad Guys, the spear- carriers for the acquisitive 'civilized' world, with their repeating rifles, artillery and large gunboats out there in the harbor.
How can people survive when there are artillery shells falling as close as 20 feet away?
The acting is terrible, the accents are WORSE than terrible (one artillery mans' accent seems to take us on a tour of the British Isles, from Scotland to Wales via Northern Ireland), the dialogue is stilted, the editing is non-existent, the production values prove that no expense has been gone to.
A team of most unlikely Marines is sent to defuse any spent artillery rounds or unexploded bombs that might be left on an island that was used as a gunnery target.
There should have been a lot more explosions of French artillery shells bombarding the city.
Don't be silly - they grab the biggest, heaviest artillery in sight and blow every virus-carrier they come across into pulp.
It literally has hundreds of soldier running into battle and artillery shells blowing up around them and killing some.
I turned it of when the SS officer in full uniform runs through a British platoon to get to a truck and gets away with it just after he says to his side kick we will use the artillery as cover, because artillery good for that.
The heavy artillery of monetary and fiscal stimulus is being wasted on attempts to short-circuit balance-sheet repair.
For two centuries, far-sighted Ottoman viziers had argued for the need to spur Turkey's economic and technological development: back in 1453, Sultan Mehmet II's armies had conquered Constantinople, because Mehmet had built the most technologically advanced and powerful artillery in the world.
Less than two months later, however, the two countries were exchanging artillery fire across the border, with Modi instructing the Indian Army to respond disproportionately to Pakistani provocations.
Of course, the troops may be made invulnerable to bombing by being billeted among the civilian population, but armored vehicles and artillery cannot be hidden in apartment houses.
Effective deterrence and defense against possible long-range artillery barrages, missile attacks, infiltration, and WMD-related asymmetric forms of warfare are also essential.
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