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  • 8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily. Archive 2008-03-01
  • Steve Wilson's vibes are deep in the rhythm section's pocket, riffing or firing off spare, hanging chords.
  • Hess is hitting back at Save the Bay, with Hess LNG chief executive R. Gordon Shearer last week firing off a letter to the group disputing what he called exaggerated, misleading and inflammatory rhetoric. Home - BostonHerald.com
  • The competition itself plays out like a game show with one nation firing off musical shots against another while surrounding beer drinkers roar with approval.
  • Hell, what would the emancipationist think, who used to stand on the front porch of his Italianate home, his hands stained with newsprint after firing off another broadside round of anti-slavery screeds, surveying all the lands around him? Driving directions
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  • Gadhafi's forces remained active, firing off a short-range Scud missile Monday near Sirte, Gadhafi's hometown and one of the few remaining cities still under his control, said U.S. military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations. Moammar Gadhafi's son resurfaces, vows to fight
  • Now that would be a firing offense, and then rehire after the election like shaheen. Obama Defends Axelrod's Comments About Bhutto Assassination And Hillary's Iraq Vote
  • At least I was not firing off maudlin emails to any exes out there (better check my outbox just in case).
  • He began to purge senior ranks, firing officers he considered disloyal.
  • Firing off the f-word that hits LGBT teens like a bullet, we could almost understand Teddy's attempt to distance himself from the only fella who knows his secret: he's terrified of being exposed, and scared people do messed up things. Watercooler: Bully for 90210?
  • ‘Heckling’ then was a method of firing off questions designed to tease or comb out truths that politicians might wish to conceal or avoid.
  • One day, a villager suggested firing off fire crackers, bang loud gongs and fly red banner to try to frighten off the monster.
  • Mexicans have a tradition of firing off guns to welcome in the new year.
  • Or all three so we had to back it up with firing off a thunderflash from a hand pistol.
  • Billy wasted no time in firing off the main cannon, and torching the Pirate ship.
  • It was actually a deer-crossing sign, but it was dented and chipped almost beyond recognition by rifle shots, where the locals had been practising firing off rounds from a moving pick-up truck.
  • Watching the erstwhile nerd get used to his muscular new body and powers - accidentally firing off webs and finding things sticking to his arachnoid hands - is one of the most engaging parts of the film.
  • Between reception and inception is this automaton intelligence, analysing the data as it comes in, processing it, and firing off response actions. Archive 2007-02-01
  • After firing off a couple of jokes that bomb disastrously, he will ask for a volunteer from the audience.
  • When required to be used, the canister is thrown amongst the enemy, and exploded at will by firing off the pistol. Three Months in the Soudan
  • Jasper spun, firing off several shots from his ray gun at Bobby before he hit the taut oxhide and was hurled back up into the air, wheeling his legs in kicks and punches to knock out the gangsters who grabbed at his knees. Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
  • Predictably, North Korea has responded to the UN resolution by firing off another round of bellicose threats. Searches of its vessels will provoke military retaliation, the regime says.
  • We gazed at the sunset, a flame-grilled tropical sky, and watched the lights on the yachts glow, while somewhere behind us touring buskers were firing off a fandango of skirling tunes.
  • The enemy are firing off their big guns.
  • A follow-up commercial had a gray-bunned schoolmarm firing off a letter about the grammatical goof, only to be challenged with the jingle, ‘Whaddaya want, good grammar or good taste?’
  • The book is previewed in the current issue of The Economist (subscription required), in an article that's sure to get some of the sisters firing off letters to the editor.

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