From a distance, they shot at each other. Close up, they cut each other with knives.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Protesters shot at soldiers and set fire to buildings including big stores.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

"If we put a bureaucratic hand on this, we will stifle the capacity for modern technology to give us a better shot at the students learning the material."

VOA: special.2011.06.09

These men would fire the first shot at Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Someone shot at him. It happened near the house.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The women have the first shot at medals Thursday as they vie for the gold medal in the high jump.

VOA: standard.2009.08.19

A senior official who spoke to reporters here called the Lula visit "perhaps the last big shot at engagement" with Tehran.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"I have been blown up three or four times,three times, and I have been shot at I do not know how many times and then I had diphtheria, measles and pneumonia,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

We need to figure out some way to transfer resources, mostly in the form of technology, north to south, so that countries like India or China or continents like Africa have some decent shot at development without having to go through the fossil fuel era."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford's Theatre while watching a play with his wife in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

The next day, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and supporter of the defeated Confederacy, shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

A Confederate sympathizer shot the president at Ford's Theatre in Washington on April fourteenth, eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

In April of nineteen ninety-four the musician shot and killed himself at his home in Seattle,Washington.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

The United Nations and local human rights groups say 157 people were shot dead during the rally at a Conakry stadium.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

"I turned those movies down and off I went on the road, for three months at a shot.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Yet they abandoned those they were responsible for, they were supposed to protect, and abandoned them even before any shot was fired at them."

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

Redelfs and his pregnant wife,Lesley, who worked at the US consulate in Juarez,died in their white sport utility vehicle after being shot multiple times.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

His family says he was shot in his bed at four in the morning.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

They shot him first on his shoulder than at his head.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

For no particular reason at all, Somebody shot him.

VOA: standard.other

Jockey Calvin Borel rode two of the three Triple Crown champions, but missed a personal Triple Crown at the Belmont.Aboard 50-1 long shot "Mine That Bird," Borel won the Kentucky Derby May second.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

In the first match, England's Frank Lampard would have tied the score at 2-all before half-time, but officials did not see his shot bounceacross the goal line and rebound out after hitting under the crossbar.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The trial of Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who shot to fame after flinging his shoes at former President George Bush during a press conference last December in Baghdad, ended with a relatively light three-year sentence.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

He was still breathing," In one of the cases this month, a 45-year-old Roma woman was killed in the eastern village of Kisleta and her 13-year-old daughter was seriously injured when police say gunmen broke into their home at night and shot the victims in their sleep.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22