How To Use Snipe In A Sentence
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The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
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During World War II, he developed a camera a hundred times more powerful than the iconoscope, which was the first night-vision camera, called the sniperscope or snooperscope, and he worked on radio-controlled missiles.
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As estimated by the staff of the Joint Force, around two-thirds of losses were inflicted by snipers operating within such parties, who would fire from embrasures in basement walls, top-story windows and roofs.
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And so, with this in mind, and in the spirit of wild experimentation, this week, in place of the usual guttersnipe sneering, I bring you art.
Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: TV listings in haiku
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On behalf of tiny snipers, we are delighted to invite you to join an iterative process of hematoid symposia to be held at the hinges of daily life.
Dear Carl
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It did not help that both players took to Twitter to snipe from the sidelines.
Times, Sunday Times
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As for communications equipment, the snipers need small, easily packable radios and a good directional antenna to allow for longer-range communications.
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Delays are expected, but thereinafter Shattersnipe will return with its regularly scheduled ramblings.
2008 July « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
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Enemy snipers were just waiting to aim at the glow of a cigarette end.
Times, Sunday Times
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I believe in honesty is the best policy, not fake sniper fire.
Schneider: More sobering news - the value gap
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We heard the snipers were winning packets of cigarettes for hitting the correct number of targets.
Times, Sunday Times
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The myth of the Japanese sniper is exploded by returning officers.
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The other sniper was crouched behind a rusted workbench close to the main doorway.
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At the same time, the CIEF man named Whitfield called out, “Sniper position is lased!”
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS
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A dark creature approaches it still snaps and snipes but offers a parasol which is taken before it retires
Quick crossword No 12,722
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Suddenly, up got such a wisp of snipe, under my very feet, that I am bound to say I missed both barrels
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Planes bombed the guerrilla positions yesterday in an attempt to flush out snipers from underground tunnels.
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His skills saved his life when the sniper opened fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the squad broke up to attack various positions the sniper held back to provide cover fire.
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To the average western man, who has an aversion to what he considers unsportsmanlike conduct, merely the mention of the word sniper evokes an image of an evil little foreign man sneaking through the jungles of Okinawa picking off the good guys, or of a merciless Viet Cong hiding in a tree waiting for the opportunity to kill a 19-year-old GI from Des Moines or Wichita as he walks patrol at Nha Trang.
ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
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Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
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But with the help of his son and his father, he managed to find time to ensure his hectares became an ideal home for lapwings, redshanks, snipes and curlews.
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Another time, the Skink commander was fired on by a sniper. Unhurt but furious, the commander directed the Skink's guns to fire in the direction of the sniper.
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Snipe, red buntings, yellowhammers and even kingfishers are supposedly hereabouts.
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As a sniper, he spent most of his time between the lines of trenches, in ‘No Man's Land ’, hunting other snipers.
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There were a dozen black-winged stilts, two spur-winged plovers, a common sandpiper and my new life bird, a great snipe.
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Since 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion was a Special Forces–rated unit, it got all the cool jobs, and he was the go-to guy on patrol security, Agency snatch-and-grabs and various countersniper and IED problems.
Dead Zero
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BTW If you think doves are hard try hunting jacksnipe around a marsh.
Feathers vs Clay
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Critics also sniped that Presley was neither a musician nor a songwriter.
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Almost a dozen more have been wounded by snipers who lie in ambush or fire from cars.
The Sun
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We find this to be incentive enough to always zoom while firing your sniper rifle.
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The fight-scene, probably co-ordinated by Mr. Snipes, is very well done and Jessica handles herself without any problems at all.
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Locals claim the dead were civilians shot by snipers or caught in crossfire.
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The group has also managed the wet farmland so winter visitors include snipe, redshank, water rail and common sandpiper.
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You look like a regular snipe, Ranke," said Erich Hippke, Quartermaster with the watch after Kurt's, as Kurt climbed out of the fireroom.
The Heirs of Babylon
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A jack snipe, a rare wading bird, has been seen.
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Some snipefish, such as the ones on the cover, also have a long, pointed spine stretching back from the dorsal fin.
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a big kind of lapwing and snipe; but the snipe here were cunning, and got up wild and flew far, so I only got a small bag.
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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The light was gloomy even through the image-intensifying sniperscope he was using as a telescope.
THE LAST RAVEN
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He was hit in the neck by a bullet from a sniper.
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Mr. Kelly broke his back in three places when falling through a roof while on a countersniper mission in Baghdad at the age of 22.
Helping Soldiers Cope With Trauma
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The complaint against them, it seems, is that they supplied the troops around Sarajevo who shelled and sniped at civilians.
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The last fatal shooting attributed to the sniper took place Tuesday.
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After a few moments the snipers commence their commentary via the team's radio net - ensuring all callsigns have situational awareness.
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Herds of deer roam in the open glades; droves of pigs are found in the forest somewhat similar to those of England; and a bird, the ynambu guazu, as large as a pheasant; while quails are seen in flocks in the esteros, -- with snipe, wild pigeons, and other birds.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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No, I'm bent over double thinking what my bag limit on woodcock, snipe, rails and other game birds would be.
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With it the sniper needed a truly extraordinary level of self-discipline, hundreds, if not thousands of hours of practice in the arts of shooting and of fieldcraft, and a high pain threshold.
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For his part, Truman regarded the columnist as a "guttersnipe," and with good reason.
Hoffmania!
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That, by the way, is why the USMC uses the M40A1 (militarized Remington 700), and despite what Hollywood shows people using for long range shooting in counterterrorist units or whatever, SWAT and other mil tend to base their snipers around the Savage 10 or the Remington.
Is Your Next Deer Rifle An AR?
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After boot camp, the sergeant encouraged some of us tougher boys who could shoot a little to volunteer for what he called the scout/snipers.
ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
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Any fool can be pedantic and snipe at what they think are minor errors in grammar.
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No matter how much you love the stone and broom game, when it takes priority in the biggest country in the Commonwealth, you can see why critics feel able to snipe.
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Gunmen continued to snipe at people leaving their homes to find food.
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Snipes 'long prison sentence should send a loud and crystal clear message to all tax defiers that if they engage in similar tax defier conduct, they face joining him and his co-defendants ... as inmates in prison," said Nathan Hochman, an official at the US Department of Justice Tax Division.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Those who snipe about colleagues not only end up the most unpopular - but also have the least influence at work.
The Sun
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A buzzard, high above, hung on the thermals and the sound of drumming snipe reminded me that this, after all, was summer.
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Wild fowl in great variety visit the island, and the low-lying land within the sea-wall is the favourite haunt of many sea-birds; and several varieties of plover, the redshank, greenshank, sandpiper, and snipe may be found there.
Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch
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The identity of the sniper remains uncertain.
THE HUNTING OF MAN
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Ince flies a mature tiercel male peregrine successfully at snipe, dove and quail, some of the toughest quarries any trained falcon catches.
Archive 2006-02-01
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THERE'S something glamorous about being a sniper.
The Sun
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If you fire your sniper rifle while unscoped, you will notice a significant decrease in accuracy.
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Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
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When the snipe and the clam grapple , it is the fisherman who profits.
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In another incident he sent a scout to catch an enemy sniper.
Times, Sunday Times
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I always grow concerned when news networks break out their extra spiffy graphics during War Game time: showing Navy snipers shooting faceless bad guys, troop deployments in a "theoretic" ground invasion of Somalia, etc.
Allison Kilkenny: Blowback Amnesia
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The German snipers were expecting them.
THE HUNTING OF MAN
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His face was deadly white, a bloody bandage swathed his neck, and his rainproof was soaked with the blood of a sniper's victim.
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The American people are tired of Hillarys continous attempt to confuses the issues, maybe being under sniper firer has really affected her.
Blitzer: Court ruling could have huge impact at the polls
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However, you'll soon acquire a number of attachments to change the function of the gun that turn it into a sniper rifle and a grenade launcher.
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Insect life is increasing rapidly, encouraging birds such as snipe, curlew, grasshopper warbler, sedge warbler, and whinchat.
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A sniper hidden on a roof picked off three of the soldiers on patrol.
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We are not prone to second-guess police work, but the sniper investigation seems to have been marked by confusion and worse.
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Once common species such as the snipe, lapwing and curlew have seen declines of up to 73 per cent; birds like the twite, a moorland version of the linnet, are now gone from some parts of the park.
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Two lakes nestle among the 35 acres, which attract an array of birds such as oystercatchers, ducks and snipes.
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That gun accounted for many squirrels, coons, rabbits, doves, quail and jacksnipe the first few years of my hunting career.
Why .410 Shotguns Are Better for Experts than for Kids
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Of course, he doesn't help matters by throwing a little hissy fit every time he gets sniped at.
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The shocking results from the county are that no breeding pairs of curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe or oystercatcher were recorded on the sites surveyed.
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Despite the snipe and the swamp sparrows, the bird of the outing was a rail.
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After that, I slung on my sniper rifle, and my assault rifle, and loaded each of them.
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It quickly emerged that lots of people knew Michael had been shot by a sniper from the Scots Guards, but no one had told the family.
'My son was shot by a British sniper, now all I want is the truth'
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GWB was so classy..and the Chicago guttersnipe so out of touch with reality!
Obama the Patronizing Lecturer, Refusing to Yield and Force on you the Change You Don’t Want | RedState
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Like a sniper, he took his time to aim before neatly felling the animal.
Times, Sunday Times
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But by many accounts, enemies tend to see countersniper gear as an infuriating and destabilizing turn of events.
Where’s the Sniper?
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It appears that the sniper believed Michael was on the ground, not in a prominent position on top of a two-storey building where he would regularly rotate with his fellow observers as they scanned the ground around them.
'My son was shot by a British sniper, now all I want is the truth'
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Another sharp report split the night, and the second bullet from a sniper rifle ricocheted off the pavement to my immediate right.
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Many pupils struggled to get to school after buses were cancelled and huge traffic jams developed as police set up dragnets to try to catch the sniper.
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I was one of the honest supporters of Sen. Hillary, before I witnessed her on the podium when start elusion the sniper and other stories knowingly she is lying on the face of American people on live TV more than couple times.
Obama, campaign both say he's not ready to declare victory
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Every moment that ticks by could provide new clues to help police track down the sniper.
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Almost a dozen more have been wounded by snipers who lie in ambush or fire from cars.
The Sun
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Based on multi - rigid - body dynamics, firing process of a large caliber sniper rifle was analyzed.
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New Mexico: Non-toxic ammunition required for common moorhen; sora, a freshwater marsh bird; Virginia rail and snipe with shotguns, as well as dove, band-tailed pigeon, upland game or migratory game birds on all State Game Commission owned or managed areas.
Iowa in middle of lead-shot skirmish
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The sniper crossbow fires bolts that set whatever they hit aflame.
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There were also a number of snipe, woodcock, and red legged partridge taken.
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No sooner would one be fired than the crew would instantly expose itself to raking sniper fire.
THE HUNTING OF MAN
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Hybrids include ‘Tete-a-Tete’ up to 20 cm high with long lasting deep yellow flowers, ‘Jack Snipe’ and ‘February Silver’ both with white petals and yellow trumpets and ‘Beryl’ with primrose petals and orange trumpet.
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The long range view is a great opportunity to snipe enemies from far away.
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We were under constant fire from enemy snipers.
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Players get to run around the building's maze of corridors, explore its subterranean passageways and take to its roof with a sniper rifle.
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His right hand rested on his Steyr SSG'the same antisniper rifle he had shown her at the range.
Hot Pursuit
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But out on the grassy fields, impressive numbers of snipe poked and probed about.
Times, Sunday Times
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I then wondered whether, if a sniper starting shooting into the crowd, I would be able to find adequate cover from the fusillade of bullets which would be raining down upon the commuters and workers crossing the road.
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Their farm is a haven for black grouse, lapwing, yellow wagtail, redshank, snipe and golden plover.
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The script is peppered with the sort of bickering and snipes you hear from those disgruntled married couples you unfortunately find yourself seated with on cruises.
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We heard the snipers were winning packets of cigarettes for hitting the correct number of targets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where once there were acres of grain, there are now acres of barnacle geese; where sheep once grazed, there are widgeon and teal; lapwing and redshanks have replaced the cattle; his new crops are spoonbills, snipe, skylarks and linnets.
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A sniper behind the bushes picked off three of our men.
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You can only get sniped if you're not willing to pay what you think something is worth.
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We find this to be incentive enough to always zoom while firing your sniper rifle.
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When all was ready, the long-range snipers, including me and my men, began firing.
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His other inventions included a form of the electric eye and his infrared image tube led to the sniperscope and the snooperscope.
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It is also crucial to the survival of the red listed reed bunting in north Wiltshire. The area on top of the old landfill site supports a good number of snipe and in recent years internationally important numbers of the scarce jack snipe.
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The sniper got him when he was halfway there.
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Despite the world-shaking blasts of weaponry as the Americans try to root out the snipers, this is also a contest of wills in which the tension rises to a level that seems unbearable, and then rises again.
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It is a high-wire act where the tension between the job and a home life is stretched as taut as a sniper's nerves.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was all set to buy my first Banksy and then I got sniped.
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Breeding birds include lapwing, snipe and redshank, all of which have declined nationally in recent years.
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And that may explain why the elitists in those various fields keep working so hard to discredit and snipe at him.
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You should nominate your best marksmen as snipers while your all-arounders act as assault gunners or sappers.
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April 30th, 2008 5: 39 pm ET wel, well, well the sniper liar has done it and you people will find out what kind of a liar she really is and why don't you ask her what kind of relationship her and billyboy had with the rev. wright fred
Poll of polls: Obama losing ground
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We heard the snipers were winning packets of cigarettes for hitting the correct number of targets.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were many water fowl such as ducks, geese, swans, heron, cranes, plovers, snipe and curlew, many of which would have been occasionally hunted for their meat.
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Maybe if he didn't use a sniper rifle at someone zigzaging towards him with a shotgun he would of got me instead of a shotgun to the face.
Latest from PALGN
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This 55-acre park has a network of boardwalks and walkways that allows species such as the common snipe and the tree swallow to be observed without harming the lush grasses and wetland they thrive in.
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A renegade general who backed them is fighting for life after being shot by a sniper on Thursday.
The Sun
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It was a ritual that we in Ireland became familiar with in recent years, as streets were emptied of cars, drains and manhole covers were checked and sealed, snipers were put on rooftops and in all unsealed windows.
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The hostile terrain is tailor-made for snipers and ambush.
The Sun
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Let the rest of the guttersnipes pettifog about celebrity doping.
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Dignity of Attending a Press Conference
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The group has also managed the wet farmland so winter visitors include snipe, redshank, water rail and common sandpiper.
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The former Parachute Regiment sniper was not overly concerned.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also developed antidazzle headlights and a sniper gunsight and ran his business into the ground.
American Connections
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I promise not to stay up till 3.25 am to snipe a US bidder off a pair of yellow leather mod boots which are rightfully mine.
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These included a shortened carbine, a sniper rifle, a belt-fed light machine gun, and a heavy-barreled squad automatic weapon.
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People are afraid to venture out for fear of sniper attacks.
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They sent him to sniper school, put a scope on his rifle, and that was the last of it.
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Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
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Dust covers the entire city; the smell of diesel fumes is pervasive no matter where you go; there are ruins and debris everywhere you look; and the trees are all destroyed (either cut down for fuel or by the Soviets years earlier to thwart snipers who used them for cover).
Khaled Hosseini - An interview with author
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A friend at school had his eye shot by another lad ‘over something silly’, and Pierre once had to duck bullets from a sniper outside his home.
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She hadn't flinched at the sound of the sniper rifle, her full fixed upon the center.
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The guns are entirely standard, and include the requisite fast-shooting automatics, a slow but powerful shotgun, and an ultraprecise sniper rifle.
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
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Also featured here are species which live at great depth, on sandy or muddy seabeds: rays, sole, crayfish and snipefish.
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While he held his machine steady and followed the sprinting animals, the on-board sniper darted the last two heifers and the helicopter winched them back to dry land.
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Sniper Shot: Do you have nerves of steel and a rock steady trigger finger to last through the grueling sniper tournament and prove your worth.
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Gunmen have repeatedly sniped at US Army positions.
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No matter how much you love the stone and broom game, when it takes priority in the biggest country in the Commonwealth, you can see why critics feel able to snipe.
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All week the media of both nations had sniped at each other.
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Dinkins would have no second term, as Giuliani sniped, bitched, needled, and flung scat from the sidelines during Dinkins 'entire term — with help from his new breed patrons on the media side, and swept into power on a pounding fist and a constant, yapping bark.
Archive 2008-01-01
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On the one hand, the authorities have feinted in the direction of creating a Syrian "perestroika," announcing reforms a new constitution, promising to free prisoners, ending travel restrictions against opposition figures, calling for a national dialogue, a multi-party system, etc., while at the same time using lethal force and mass arrests against demonstrators, and positioning snipers and thugs to exact a deadly toll.
James Zogby: What Is at Stake in Syria
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Our snipers and reconnaissance Marines excelled at this task, as one would expect of trained observers.
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Primitive periscopes, made from long wooden boxes with mirrors, were arranged so that an observer could look over the rim of the trench without getting hit by a sniper's bullet.
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If he wore a backpack, he should have been sniped at the entrance.
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There were times when I felt it might make more sense to stand in the dark with a burlap sack, yelling, ‘Here, snipe, snipe, snipe!’
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Inside the perimeter fence, camouflaged hides normally used for birdwatching have been installed to conceal the whereabouts of police snipers and bomb disposal teams.
Times, Sunday Times
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A new survey has revealed that populations of waders such as lapwing, curlew and snipe are thriving because land is being managed with their needs in mind.
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Abdel-Wahed was in the yard doing his ablutions before prayers when a sniper bullet hit him.
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The birds we had seen hitherto consisted chiefly of prairie chicken, lark, snipe, and a small kind of starling that was continuously swarming around us, and was so tame that it would at times sit on our pack animals while on the march.
A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839
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The officer cap, for instance, has a quatrefoil because when the Marines used to be snipers up in the masts of sailing vessels they would tie ropes on top of their hats so they could be identified by the friendlies and not be shot.
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All this stuff about reading the Bible, shooting ducks, drinking shote with the guys,etc. is NO different than the sniper fire.
Warring Over Small-Town Credentials - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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It began with the unremitting curfews, followed by reports of babies dying at checkpoints and snipers shooting children.
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He slipped it back into the scabbard and then picked up the streamlined sniper rifle, slinging it over his shoulder by its leather strap.
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Well she's made such a case for herself - Bosnia sniper fire, "hard working white people", "not a muslim as far as I know", "John McCain has passed the commander-in-chief threshhold, Obama gave a speech", Bill's claiming Obama "slimed" Hillary (and note - that was just YESTERDAY!).
Hillary Supporter Dianne Feinstein: The Race Is Over, Make Hillary Veep
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Snipe, red buntings, yellowhammers and even kingfishers are supposedly hereabouts.
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It's not a matter of semantics this time, as were my arguments with people over what to call the sniper.
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Snipers were picking off innocent civilians.
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Or why it is permissible to slay a minute bird such as a snipe, while a titlark is on no account to be touched.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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Animal welfare experts and a trained sniper were muddied and exhausted before they eventually tranquilized the cattle.
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When they strike, it is sudden and time is on their side regardless of counterassault teams or countersniper teams.
The Kennedy Detail
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It is very easy to snipe from the sidelines.
Times, Sunday Times
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The regenerating habitats on Mangere provide refuge for the endangered Chatham Island black robin, Chatham Islands snipe, and the Forbes parakeet.
Chatham Island temperate forests
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The wish-list included sniper rifles, rocket launchers, RPG-7 rockets, hand-grenades and Semtex explosives.
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In Detroit, where forty-three people died in race riots in 1967, the police already had five armored vehicles but were stockpiling tear gas and gas masks and were requesting antisniper rifles, carbines, shotguns, and 150,000 rounds of ammunition.
1968 the Year that Rocked the World
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Even reserve guard Dell Curry, not a day over 147 years old, remains a deadeye sniper.
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The Dolphin is a powerful gun, somewhat reminds me of a sniper rifle and makes cool ricochets.
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My best stretch back then was 17 jacksnipe with 25 shells.
Feathers vs Clay
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One company commander said that as his squads moved through residential areas, they were fired on from inside buildings, and snipers took potshots at them from numerous hiding places.
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You know you've reached a new nadir in cable news when a station invites actors who play investigators on telly to comment on the sniper's tactics.
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THERE'S something glamorous about being a sniper.
The Sun
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Once common species such as the snipe, lapwing and curlew have seen declines of up to 73 per cent; birds like the twite, a moorland version of the linnet, are now gone from some parts of the park.
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Also called timberdoodle, woody and bog snipe, they're classified shorebirds but live in the woods and are most active at night.
Post-gazette.com - News
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Our sniper team used it from headquarters for better commo and mobility.
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Almost a dozen more have been wounded by snipers who lie in ambush or fire from cars.
The Sun
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In fact, one soldier thanked Rumsfeld and presented him with an armor plate that saved his life by stopping a sniper's bullet.
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I prefer to play the sniper and you can't blame me for trying to find new spots to snipe from.
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He never gets to meet the informant as a sniper starts taking potshots at the building.
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Take control of the Green Beret, the spy, the sniper and the sapper.
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During the fighting, a Palestinian sniper shot and killed an Ecuadoran volunteer who was working in a potato field at an Israeli Kibbutz (communal farm) about 100 meters from the Gaza border.
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The true troll has no such fantasy position, no high-rise hidey-hole of mock objectivity to snipe from; the troll is a grunt on the ground, running this way and that, chucking whatever wank grenade happens to be handy, through whatever doorway happens to be ajar.
Archive 2009-06-01
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There was a crackle of radio static before all four sniper teams responded with a simple: ‘Roger.’
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Gordon and his fellow sniper, while under intense small-arms fire from the enemy, fought their way through a dense maze of shanties and shacks to reach the critically injured crew members.
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Every legion was of 50 men. 25 riflemen, 10 gunners, 5 snipers and 10 explosive.
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Snipers generally have poor interpersonal relations but do not stand out in the crowd.
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A snipe about about your workload?
Times, Sunday Times
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We unexpectedly flushed a wisp of snipe.
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He is more reckless when younger; when his ear is clipped by a sniper's bullet, his concern is that he doesn't bleed on his single epaulette, and later he is deafened when with his men he uses too much powder sabotaging the enemy.
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Lacking formal education, adult supervision, and sometimes even a home, such youths were derided as ‘rats,’ ‘gamins,’ ‘urchins’ and ‘gutter-snipes.’
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A 19 year old guy, when asked for the more common name of a bird that is also known as a timberdoodle, wood snipe, bog sucker, and night partridge, couldn't come up with the answer.
Saru-san Diary Entry
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A female Marsh harrier was chasing a male painted snipe in flight.
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Not that this will appease the critics, who continue to snipe.
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Gunmen have repeatedly sniped at US Army positions.
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Theres a need for a 7.62 bolt action, but with snipers, not markman. (the .338 weighs as much as a GPMG, bit difficult to stalk with!)
Army Rumour Service
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It's the exciting true story of a Marine sniper in the Vietnam War.
