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firing

Firing is the process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, to produce pottery. After the pots have been glazed, they go back into the kiln for a second firing.

firing

(= fire) the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire (= discharge) the act of discharging a gun the act of setting something on fire (= dismissal) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

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Simple sentences

In short some guns have excellent security systems to prevent accidental firing (e.g. when dropped), others don't.
He was sentenced to death by firing squad.
Tom was shot by a firing squad.
They started firing.
The boss considered firing Tom, but decided against it.
They're firing at us.
He fired me and offered a pretextual rationale for the firing.
I'm firing you.
The men who tried to steal the plane have been sentenced to death by firing squad.
The boss is thinking about firing Tom.
We're firing you.
Tom kept firing until he ran out of bullets.

Movie subtitles

We're gonna be firing this at around three-and-a-half kilometres per second.
The enemy is within firing range!
The first thing you know, you'll be arrested for firing a rod in the city limits.
It's your own damn fault for firing at him!
Take charge of the firing party.
Stop them firing!
Yeah. (GUNS FIRING) Down in the flat.
Run for it. (GUN FIRING) AII right, boys.
Wait. (GUN FIRING) They got Hank.
So will I. (GUN FIRING) Did you have to do that, Sam?
Those swine out there will go on firing till they've killed the lot of us.
You can't settle anything by firing the girl.
They've no stomach for firing on troops.
So we'll fire on the fort, and keep firing. In shifts.
But there'll be 12 men you won't cheat, the firing squad.
No firing squad for me, Shubin.
How much would you want to stand in front of a firing squad?
Stop them firing.
One ship is already firing on the town!
Keep firing.
Pretty difficult orders to follow, particularly when they're firing on us.
And if Custer finds out you told Yellow Hand, he'll give you the firing squad.
They're firing' powerful fast.
Face it, those swines will go on firing till they kill us all.
And he'll end up firing shots at me.
The firing-line's too short!
I do hope he doesn't start firing people right and left.
Shut up, you silly kid, firing without orders!
Those guards up there will start firing. And you.
Will somebody quit firing cannon under my windows?
Take this and keep firing.
What kind of firing do you call that?
Somehow I don't feel like firing anybody.
Stand by to commence firing. Stand by to commence firing.
Stand by to commence firing.
Cease firing.

News and current affairs

Early on, the government proposed legislation to increase labor market flexibility and relax constraints on firing rules.
Apparently, he believes that the chance of killing an important terrorist leader is sufficient justification for firing a missile that will almost certainly kill innocent human beings.
The pre-credit sequence shows a group of Spanish guerrillas during the insurgency against Napoleon being led to a wall where they are to be executed by firing squad.
Even structural reform reduces output in the short run, because it requires firing workers, shutting down money-losing firms, and gradually reallocating labor and capital to emerging new industries.
Moreover, during Earth Hour, any significant drop in electricity demand will entail a reduction in CO2 emissions during the hour, but it will be offset by the surge from firing up coal or gas stations to restore electricity supplies afterwards.
Still, the Egyptian artillery was superior, and should have at least silenced the tanks firing at the trench line.
Moreover, it is likely that, within a few months, UN soldiers would once again find themselves between the firing lines of the conflicting parties.
The Chinese soldiers allegedly assumed firing positions, leading the Indians to withdraw in order not to provoke a shooting match.
France has strict hiring and firing regulations that make it costly to dismiss workers and thus reduce job creation.
High tax rates on labor - together with rigid regulation of hiring and firing - make employers extremely reluctant to recruit workers.
The same strict firing laws and high levels of minimum wages that are intended to protect native French workers from globalization make it much more difficult for newcomers to land jobs.
By firing missiles on Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, a boundary has been crossed.
Restriction on firing employees, for example, may protect people who have jobs, but often at the expense of the unemployed, thus increasing social exclusion.
Across the West, people have been celebrating the tenth anniversary of the end of communism as the war won without firing a shot. Across the former Soviet empire, genuine euphoria is tempered by ten hard years of change.
Will something like that, too, happen in our own dystopian world (in which all remaining Republican US presidential candidates seem to favor firing Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke)?
Legal requirements that significantly increase the costs of hiring and firing labor discourage employment creation in new industries.
He's an outsourced human-resources executive who flies around the country firing people on behalf of timid managers; she's a counterpart female road warrior.
Simply put, China's problem is that its economic growth has been so spectacular that it risks firing people's imaginations a bit too intensely.
Indeed, even China's firing of missiles into the Taiwan Strait in 1996 did not change US policy.
At the head of the firing party, a French soldier carries the Tricolor forward.

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