Translation for '
warning shot' from English to Icelandic
NOUN | a warning shot | warning shots | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- When the pirates' intended victim was within range, the Jolly Roger would be raised, often simultaneously with a warning shot.
- A twenty-one year old insurance salesman and Air Force veteran named Henry Austin confronted the mob and fired a warning shot.
- January 28, 2010 - Two assaults against officers at Kent Institution. A warning shot was fired.
- He fires a warning shot into the interior, then joins the stricken yacht.
- May 1976: A fight broke out between two Muslim groups. They armed themselves with baseball bats and chunks of wood. A warning shot was fired and the guards used tear gas to break the fight up.
- Burton would later be blamed for his own death, by Governor Deneen, who suggested that Burton incensed the mob when he fired a warning shot, trying to protect his family and property.
- In military and police contexts, a warning shot is an intentionally harmless artillery shot or gunshot with intent to enact direct compliance and order to a hostile perpetrator or enemy forces.
- Rama fires a warning shot from his retreat in Suvela.
- Gina takes his gun and fires a warning shot into the ceiling, which ricochets and accidentally kills Johnny.
- In French nuclear doctrine it is called a "pre-strategic" weapon, the last-resort "warning shot" prior to a full-scale employment of strategic nuclear weapons.
- The customs house had two cannons and when the schooners attempted to run the customs port the agent fired a warning shot across the bow of each ship and then six more as an attempt to sink them.
- Initially two British ships sought to halt the progress of the "Catalpa" and recapture the men, but after receiving a warning shot, Anthony raised the American flag.
- In 1997 the house was broken into by a deranged fan. Garriott held him off with an Uzi, firing a warning shot while waiting for police to arrive.
- At 08:20, "Atlantis" fired a warning shot across "Automedon" [...] s bow, and her radio officer at once began transmitting a distress call of "RRRR – Automedon – 0416N" ("RRRR" meant "under attack by armed raider").
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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