So while the other Yankee starters will be grooving fastballs down the middle and working on their changeups in these meaningless spring games, Hughes will be firing bullets, trying to show that his arm has the power and menace it held in 2009 and 2010.

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Military police reacted by firing rubber bullets into the gathering of 200 at around 18:30 local time.

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Yet the ECB's own guns haven't been firing magic bullets.

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After firing so many bullets, the barrel of his machine gun was literally bent.

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Fearful that one of their own will do the same, Afghan commanders have banned foreign trainers from Afghan firing ranges where live bullets are used in target practice.

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State Wildlife Officers are firing salvos of firecracker shells, rubber bullets, and underwater charges to drive off a herd of about a hundred sea lions.

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They are careful not to waste their bullets, as rebel fighters in Libya often did, firing feux-de-joie into the air.

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The man stood up and imitated a firing squad with his two chimpanzee arms, ticking off a volley of bullets and displaying, as he did so, sharp but not entirely white front teeth.

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One officer tackled the older brother after he ran out of bullets walking down the street -- as if in Hollywood showdown -- firing upon police about 10 feet away.

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