warning shot


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warning shot

n to fire a warning shotsparare (in aria) un colpo di avvertimento
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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An extract of a statement by Mr McLaughlin, read out by Christopher Clarke QC, counsel to the inquiry, said: "In hindsight, the first shot may have been a warning shot but I believe the second shot was a serious effort at blowing my head off."
I couldn't bring myself to shoot." Instead, he fired a warning shot into the floor.
A MAN being beaten around the head by thugs was saved when a brave neighbour scared off his attackers with a warning shot.
Six officers drew their pistols and one officer fired a warning shot into the air, police said in a statement, adding that 215 rounds of tear gas and 74 rubber bullets were fired over the two days.
Brigadier General Win Zaw Oo, spokesman for the military's Western Regional Command responsible for Rakhine state, told RFA's Myanmar Service that the man was hit by a warning shot that was fired because he failed to stop as he was ordered to do.
''Yon pong kahit na warning shot ay dini-discourage na po natin 'yon lalo na kung gagawin 'yon at magreresulta sa pagkamatay,' he added.
And the results were described as a"warning shot"by a councillor after 55 per cent said that they were looking to leave Dumfries and Galloway in order to study and work.
After firing a warning shot in the air, the officers arrested the juvenile.
Now for the human body, there is a warning shot that is a most welcome jolt.
By: MENA RAMALLAH - 19 November 2017: The Israeli army said on Saturday it has fired a tank shell near the Bedouin village of Hader in Syria Saturday as a "warning shot" after the Syrian military conducted construction along their border, Ynetnews reported Saturday.
WFIE reported out of Evansville, Indiana, about a 76-year-old woman who used a warning shot to scare off an intruder.
SPRINGFIELD - A man with a gun, allegedly fed up with noisy youths in a park on Saturday night, fired a warning shot into the ground after they refused to quiet down - and ended up in jail, police said.