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A chunk of rock six miles across, moving something like 50 times the speed of a rifle bullet, slammed into the Earth.
So in an attempt to prepare their men for any future conflicts, they founded the National Rifle Association to promote rifle practice.
The Army gives him a rifle.
Going back, that same 18-year-old boy graduates from high school in Kansas City, Missouri, joins the Army, the Army gives him a rifle, they send him to Iraq.
I know I could have saved more, and if you were to rifle through my life over the last 30 years, you would see more than one dumb thing I have done financially.
The first day of the hunt, they didn't see a single bear, so it was a big bummer for everyone, but the second day, the dogs cornered one after a really long chase, but by that point, the president had given up and gone back to camp for lunch, so his hunting guide cracked the animal on the top of the head with the butt of his rifle, and then tied it up to a tree and started tooting away on his bugle to call Roosevelt back so he could have the honor of shooting it.
When it was my turn to shoot, my father helped me hold the rifle to my shoulder and explained how to aim at the target about 30 yards off.
When a cafe in Sydney was taken over by a terrorist, he went in with a rifle... and an iPad.
And when, two days later, I went the same route, and do you know, they were not in here, they were a little back further, the same young men, standing up there and holding the rifle and pointing to us to stop the car.
This cop comes after me with a rifle.
And I started to rifle through all the hundreds of scientific references that I put in my book and I realized that the answer was right in the room with me.
It's a powerful thing, getting in a room with complete strangers and reminding ourselves of our humanity, and that self-expression is just as valuable a tool as a rifle on your shoulder.
In many places in which I have worked, it is easier to get access to an automatic rifle than it is to get access to clean drinking water.
At that moment, he raised his rifle to hit me, but I saw that he was hesitating.
His eyes were shaking, and his rifle was still up in the air.
Most of them don't pick up a rifle.
C: This is an AK-47 rifle.
If you've ever seen the Yanomami blowing that snuff up their noses, that substance they make from a different set of species also contains methoxydimethyltryptamine. To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.
During the same year almost every Himba had a rifle.
rifle was just all over the whole country.
Ed Burns doesn't know how to carry a rifle, but still holds his own well as an action lead considering he isn't asked for much.
Frankly if i was John Carpenter i would sue the person who wrote this either that or go around to his or her place with a hunting rifle.
In one scene Harry strafes his rifle from behind a rock and kills seven guys.
It was just another Davy Crockett, flintlock rifle, Santa Ana, 13 days of glory collection of poppycock.
Every time this movie comes on late at night on USA, I shoot my TV with a rifle.
I have nothing against Teddy Roosevelt, but watching him test out his new rifle or make speeches about the heroic death of a big bear just doesn't excite me the way the love story between Candace Bergen and Sean Connery would have . . .
They even manage to show us how to properly demonstrate to some attractive ladies how to handle both a rifle and a bear trap.
He creeps up behind her and attacks her, but a bigger man armed with a rifle intervenes and he has to flee.
In particular for Mrs. Tottington (or 'Totty' for those who are 'intimate'), much to the chagrin of Victor Quartermaine, who just wants to kill all the rabbits with his trust rifle.
There is something wrong in the movie as well, like a rifle, how can one rifle kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex, when it could be 1,000-5,000 stronger than we are.
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