Barrage! Barrage!

Barrage

Say, five percent killed by our own barrage. That's a generous allowance.

The barrage is getting away from them. They're still in the trenches!

Now it may look like a tasty morsel, or a pig's head with wings but if it's attacked, it puts out a barrage of light in fact, a barrage of photon torpedoes.

We've got to get it all in fighting shape, like a barrage balloon.

But in this barrage of noise that I'm putting out, I actually live an incredibly anonymous and private life.

The seemingly endless barrage of Palestinian terror attacks against Israel has resulted in the murder of thousands of innocents.

As soon as the parade reached Shuhada Street, a barrage of stones were thrown at IDF soldiers who responded with rubber bullets.

And we've had the retreat from special ness under the barrage of science and technology many times over the last few hundred years, at least.

IDF jeeps were forced to retreat after coming under a heavy barrage of stones, leaving behind a soldier who took refuge in a local store.

Upon Palestinian Authority President Abbas's arrival in Gaza last week, the barrage of rockets that was fired by militants against Israeli targets aggravated the problem further.

This barrage of unfounded allegations by the Greek Cypriot side is aimed at providing a smokescreen for its policy of escalation and tension on the island.

Starting on 18 May, a two day barrage of Qassam rockets, mortar shells and anti tank rockets was launched at various Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip.

But then the monsoon arrives, and unfortunately downriver there is always a dam or there is always a barrage, and, shoop, they get washed down to their doom.

In another incident, an Egged company bus travelling from Jerusalem to the Kiryat Arba settlement came under a heavy barrage of stones near El Aroub no injuries were reported. (Jerusalem Post, 27 November)

In addition to death and destruction, the Palestinian population continues to be terrorized by the constant barrage of artillery shelling and the excruciating sound of Israeli warplanes hovering over their cities, towns and villages.

By 1989, they had little soft power left. The Berlin Wall did not collapse under a barrage of NATO artillery, but under the impact of hammers and bulldozers wielded by people who had changed their minds about Soviet ideology.

The unilateralism that Israelis overwhelmingly voted for in their recent election is based on the idea that security can somehow be achieved by erecting physical walls and barriers. The barrage of Hezbollah and Hamas rockets has shown the folly of such thinking.

The endless barrage of unwarranted and unfounded accusations against the Turkish Cypriot side cannot blur or change the fact that the reckless policy of escalation pursued by the Greek Cypriot side is the real threat to peace and stability in the region.

There was a barrage of threatening statements against Cyprus, in direct violation of international law, and in particular of the United Nations resolutions on Cyprus, which, inter alia, call for the respect of the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and unity of the Republic of Cyprus and the withdrawal of all foreign troops.

Little wonder, then, that voters in Central and Eastern Europe now feel that they got a poor bargain from the governments that brought them in belt tightening, labor market restrictions, and the notorious barrage of EU regulation. The result has been a reaction against these governments and a lack of public interest in EU affairs.

In that connection, Slovakia and Hungary, pursuant to paragraph 1 of Article 40 of the Statute of the Court, had by notification of a Special Agreement submitted to the Court their dispute over the Gačíkovo Nagymaros Project for a barrage system, a joint venture based on a 1977 treaty between Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia.

The barrage of Hezbollah and Hamas rockets has shown the folly of such thinking. And, although the West Bank has not been used to launch rockets against Israel, there is no reason why the Palestinians who reside there will not resort to such weapons if walls continue to be built deep inside their territories and Israel continues to act with arrogance towards them.

3. The houses in each village in the vicinity of the occupied sites have been subjected to an almost constant barrage of fire from the sites overlooking them, the aim being to terrorize citizens, kill and injure some of their numbers and prevent them from going to their fields, as well as to kill livestock, which is a major farming resource.

Sharon had his troops climb over the sand dunes to enter the trench lines at their top end and attack down their length a simple maneuver that the Egyptians could have defeated had they not been pinned down by an artillery barrage and Israeli tanks firing directly at them. The Israeli infantrymen had taped flashlights to their helmets so that the tank gunners could direct their fire at the Egyptians just ahead of them.

We all recall, however, that only a couple of years ago ironically on the eve of the Organization apos s golden anniversary there were ominous clouds of disappointment and disillusionment on the horizon. As the Organization came under a barrage of harsh and often destructive criticism from different quarters, there was a sense of uncertainty and doubt about the Organization apos s ability to change and to adapt itself to a post cold war world.

On November 14, the front page of The New York Times led with the following description Army tanks and fighting vehicles blasted their way into the last main rebel stronghold in Falluja at sundown on Saturday after American warplanes and artillery prepared the way with a savage barrage on the district. Earlier in the afternoon, 10 separate plumes of smoke rose from Southern Falluja, as it etched against the desert sky, and probably exclaimed catastrophe for the insurgents.