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Sentence Examples Mrs Roberts has queried whether the gun was in working order and whether the flak jacket provided enough protection. Opposition was expected to be medium to heavy flak with possible fighter opposition. During the bomb run, a piece of flak the size of a small baseball came through the radar set and struck the Lieutenant in the stomach. Flight Officer Allen procured some exceptionally good shots in spite of intense flak. In fact, as soon as you cross the border into the Netherlands, you run into a curtain of flak and a few squadrons of fighters. Yet wave upon wave of Royal Air Force bombers, engines humming gently, miraculously avoided the flak fired into the dark night sky. The crew could hear metallic pattering on their plane as the run in continued through heavier flak. Unlike bomber crews, we could take violent evasive action to get out of accurate heavy flak. Approximately 50 enemy aircraft were in the vicinity and the entire area was full of friendly flak. She donned a flak jacket and helmet to learn how de-miners use metal detectors to make land safe. The tail gunner sustained a serious wound to the knee from a piece of flak that had come from underneath. Ninety percent of the missions flown drew flak and 20 percent received battle damage. This was the time when jaw and stomach muscles tensed awaiting enemy action either by flak or fighter. One of the bullets clipped the flak jacket of one of our producers, Maria Fleet. The mission went well except for some inaccurate flak which didn't cause too much concern. We went down to St. Vith and when I looked down all I saw was fire, smoke, and flak going in all directions. Intensive fire from flak guns was directed against the midget submarine, before destroyers pounded the spot with depth charges. Instead, the series has drawn flak from right-wing media as a scandalous waste of NHS cash that should have been spent on direct patient care. We recommend that staff at the youthful paper acquire hard hats, flak jackets, earplugs and rawhides. Floating flak jackets were developed for the crews of the US Navy's inshore patrol craft. Show More Sentences We are used to getting flak from the public over the vehicles we book, so it is water off a duck's back to us. Bates was wearing a flak jacket, which at the time were lined with fiberglass plates. And there, on the front line, presiding over events in a tin hat and flak jacket, is the war correspondent. The popular radio jam quickly caught flak from groups who deemed the song's lyrics offensive. I almost felt like bursting into tears because we've taken so much flak all year long. Despite this, Rosenthal completed the bomb run and instigated a series of violent maneuvers to throw the aim of the flak guns. The intelligence officer reported that only light flak could be expected over the battlefront along the Rhine River. I put on my flak jacket and helmet and walked up the road, which was jammed with tanks and armored fighting vehicles waiting to cross the bridge. I did not see any enemy aircraft on the mission, just a lot of flak over Holland. He said afterwards that his towing aircraft was either hit by flak or developed engine trouble. Soldiers wearing flak jackets and armed with automatic weapons replaced unarmed police at checkpoints in Suva. The feeling of foreboding grew steadily as I was guided deeper into the minefield, dressed in a flak jacket and safety helmet. The flak was still there, though not nearly as heavy, and I could see at least two dogfights. Two Americans with crew cuts and flak jackets with grenades, flares and ammunition clips are the escorts through the mansion's grounds. Let the government cop the political flak for spending taxpayers' money on this instead of heart operations. Also he got to wear a flak jacket and ride in an armoured vehicle while doing so. The static lines allowed German flak to concentrate on likely targets, creating a hazardous environment for low-flying aircraft. So I turned up, got issued a flak jacket and helmet, and they helicoptered me in at dawn. The bus drivers take the flak from the customers for what is an expensive and inefficient bus service. When he does stop, however, I hope there will be other civic-minded people willing to do the work and take the flak. Show More Sentences These guys are not accountable to anyone, and we have been left to take the flak. No stranger to taking flak from a variety of critics, Elan has come for more unwelcome attention recently. Do the police not realise that they would have to take the flak if some pedestrian happened to skid and fall on the rank pile? It's the women who are at the forefront of all the bloodshed, it's the women who have to carry the can and take the flak. As long as religious advocates are willing to take the flak, why should they be ruled out of public debate? We conservatives often take a lot of flak for being overly critical of the liberal viewpoint. He steadfastly continued to take the flak for his players until two monumentally awful home defeats to Birmingham and Liverpool. It wouldn't be the first time the industry was made to pick up the tab and take the flak for flawed political policies. From a political point of view it would be more clever to withdraw it, take the flak and then forget about it. We know she let her drivers take the flak when they carried her, at speed, halfway across the South Island. They were used to draw searchlights and flak away from these more vulnerable aircraft. As we left the English coast, a hail of flak went up from a ship in mid-Channel right where we were headed. She comes sporting high heeled combat boots and a camouflage flak jacket so as not to be harmed by light shrapnel. He has been getting flak recently for tagging a television news anchor as a coddler for bailing out a suspected terrorist. It has drawn considerable flak from her opponents, some of whom have, quite literally, put much effort into drawing constituents' attention to her true blue calling. There's been a police helicopter circling overhead and the officers are all wearing flak jackets. They confirmed that some soldiers have bartered away military equipment, including knives, helmets, and flak jackets, for drugs. They looked younger now than when weighed down in camouflage, flak jackets and helmets. Even when there is no strict livery, the pressure towards a uniform is felt in every country sport, right down to the flak jacket, army boots and peaked cap of the lamper. When NYC Prep premiered, it got a lot of flak for the sheer gall of its unreality. Show More Sentences Why wasn't he asking me what I, a white girl with a flak jacket, was doing crossing into Syria? The troops, wearing flak jackets, tried to get a bead on this guy. On that trip, we could only carry our cameras and flak vests. The flak vests were a little worn but still had the protection needed. I've gone out the door with a flak jacket and a breast pump! Having been praised for the poetic inventiveness of her first play, The Three Birds, I suspect she will take a lot of flak for writing a non-naturalistic family drama. Combat-equipped soldiers and police wearing helmets and flak jackets are going door to door in the city to enforce a mandatory evacuation at the point of a gun. At a junction where the traffic lights had stuck on red a man in a flak jacket and combat trousers took it upon himself to direct the sparse traffic. On one mission Harry and his crew were hit by anti-aircraft flak. Coming at night, they dropped bombs and lost a few aircraft to flak. For the moment my main concern was not Luftwaffe fighters, lights or flak. One consequence is that ministers will have to take the flak, to accept that they will be blamed for faults, even when those are none of their making. For all the recent flak, many Tories are in ridiculously high spirits. Now, I refuse to take the flak on that one, though it was a tough call. They preferred the more military look for their dress sense mainly kitted out in black bottoms, black magnum boots and a black shirt with an armoured flak jacket over the top. The heavy chest plate in his flak jacket stopped the bullet. His face was dirty and sweaty and grimacing with pain, his flak jacket hung open where it had taken a bullet, at the very least breaking his ribs or damaging his lungs. An officer in a flak jacket without a visible gun stopped the two boys. When Red Cross workers go into a war zone, they don't get a flak jacket. She claims he would have survived had it not been for faulty equipment and that he was away from his army vehicle without a protective flak jacket. Show More Sentences Under his camouflage fatigues he wears a flak jacket with armour plates. We are going to cop flak from everywhere, but we are used to that. From an early age I could picture myself in a helmet and flak jacket, bringing the latest dispatches from far-flung battlefields as the tracer fire soars overhead. Some reviewers gave her flak for relying a bit too heavily on her cue cards in this one, but at least she rocked the bandanna. They seldom take the flak from the fans or the responsibility for purchases that go wrong. Either they must renounce their previous commitments, explaining that recession has nullified them, and take the flak from the base. Heidi's main function is to take the flak and douse the scene in dry ice at significant moments. Her tactic is not to identify too closely with any particular reforms and to let her ministers take the flak. Many European governments might be quite happy to let the unapologetic Italians take the flak for an increasingly inhumane immigration policy. He managed to maintain unity in the side and knew when to take the flak for us at difficult moments. The council went on the defensive amid the flak thrown up by the case. Up to then we were the morons, hanging around in our own goalmouths and taking a barrage of flak whenever we made a mistake. One aircraft had a flak shell pass right through the wing puncturing the gas tank. On the return trip a small amount of heavy flak, much too close for comfort, was fired at us from the vicinity of Conde-Sur-Noireau. I put on my flak jacket and helmet, climbed up on top, and got my camera ready. Indeed, some of those that have been returned were sent back wearing flak jackets and helmets, which, to me, says it is not exactly a safe area. Mr President, I too should like to congratulate all the rapporteurs, especially Mr McCartin, who has taken a reasonable amount of flak from me. All in all, as we peer through the smoke and the flak, we perceive rather less misunderstanding, confusion and emotion than in earlier years. It felt to me like a plane flying through the flak of an economy. The manager's going to take the flak for taking our star player off the pitch. Show More Sentences During World War I, Wilkinson Sword transitioned from mail to a lamellar design which was the precursor to the flak jacket. The Army was forced to revert to helmets and flak jackets as soldiers returned to patrol the streets of Northern Ireland. Are there better helmets, better flak jackets, better robots coming to market outside of the formal procurement system? Very much head of the clan at home, K-Maro has always been very protective of his family, preferring to take the media flak himself on condition that his nearest and dearest are left in peace. They were still trying to identify the other eight bodies, which were discovered next to a shotgun, handcuffs and a flak jacket. With a flak jacket for protection, he met specialist teams battling to make the area safe. They were very happy that somebody was there to show pictures of a city where you don't need a flak jacket to walk around anymore,'' he said. Halifax W7656 crash-landed in a Norwegian fjord under heavy flak on a mission to sink the Tirpitz. This state of the art flak jacket utilises patented pneumatic technology to simulate bullet hits, punches, body slams, explosions and much more. Danny lennon better call the company who made Paul McGowan's bulletproof shinnies to ask if they sell Kevlar flak jackets too. Only the special people can do that and only those who are willing to step outside the box a little bit and who may be willing to take some flak, as Ken Mann put it. He promptly did the decent thing in the gun-room, by resigning from Bob McCartney's personal party-political bandwagon, the UKUP, after McCartney took heavy flak from exultant Ulster Unionists in the Stormont Assembly. Drawing flak from the Opposition, the Tamil Nadu CM feigned ignorance of Parvathi Velupillai's arrival. However, in an interview given in May 2001 to www.ytsejam.com, Derek Riggs was asked if he had taken any flak from the media about this, along with the band. Six of the Beauforts then attacked through the flak and released their torpedoes, also with no effect. One of several pairs of mounted police in flak jackets clip-clops past, patrolling the perimeter. It also included a block of instruction on flak vests, helmets, and pugil sticks. This lack of understanding between the flak and flying branches of the defence would plague the Luftwaffe throughout the war. Many planes came in so low that they were under fire from both flak and machine gun fire. No sweatered John Major on a tank, no Maggie Thatcher in a flak jacket. Show More Sentences Merah, lying on the ground below his second-storey apartment, was wearing a flak jacket and black djellabah robe. Sinn Féin has taken considerable political flak in the Irish Republic for seeming to back welfare reforms including cuts to the civil service and public sector in Northern Ireland. Military chiefs confirmed an investigation was under way into whether his flak jacket had been fitted with vital ceramic plates. Defences too had evidently been considerably strengthened and very intense and accurate heavy flak was experienced during the first half of the attack. The Green council has been fantastic in the face of huge government cuts, and being a minority administration, but they have faced an awful lot of flak. The minister has taken some flak because his consultations did not reach out in the way they should have to women, to reserve residents and to many other people. You've always got to produce the best album you possibly can and then face up to whatever flak the critics give you and take their criticisms on board. On one hand Quebec wants to isolate Alberta and have it take the flak. Nadal, meanwhile, sails above the flak like a stealth bomber. Further, combat helmets, rucksacks, combat boots and flak jackets are being modified to ensure that women have the same level of protection and comfort as their male colleagues. At 1057 we were just over the islands and at 1100 the tail gunner reported flak at six o'clock, below. The reception for our ideas has been generally pretty good, except for some flak from within my own camp, but mercifully trade questions within the EU are decided by qualified majority voting, and I have that. I could hear the fragments from the flak shells hitting the plane like someone throwing rocks at it. I took flak for writing in this column that Terry should not be made England captain because he is not a certain starter for the national side. Nothing of interest on way across France and the flak over Stuttgart told us we were on track. Among the latest batch of high-tech tenants in DEC's old headquarters is Monster, the dotcom survivor. MIT also took some flak in the early 1990s, but it has begun to retool. He took deserved flak when the city proved so ill-prepared for Katrina, but won fans when he took to the airwaves days after the storm to upbraid President George Bush for the weak federal response. Some soldiers have complained about kit shortages, with several saying they had been issued with flak jackets but not the ceramic plates. The cast wear bullet-proof flak jackets and the helmets are made of real metal. As well as guns and explosives he has sourced a range of other items including flak jackets and night sights. Show More Sentences He was promoted to general of flak artillery on March 1, 1945, and ended the war as the general of the flak arm at OKL, the High Command of the Luftwaffe. Walker was seen at one point outside the house wearing a red bandana around his face, what appeared to be a camouflage flak jacket and sweat pants, police said. Some 500 police, some with flak jackets and carrying semi-automatic weapons, were on duty for the first time in the 158-year history of the famous steeplechase. Well, why else would our Supreme Leader ape Buzz Lightyear by donning a flak jacket and helmet over his Crimplene suit and spend a night in a shed in Afghanistan? They were given flak jackets and helmets to get to their location. The Trinamool Congress MLA's comments drew some serious flak from several quarters with the West Bengal Congress calling the comments unacceptable. The list issued by the board censoring a list of ' abuses' has drawn flak not only from renowned personalities of the film world, but also its own members. They'd have had to give the dominies flak jackets and tazers, as well as putting up razor wire around the playgrounds along with a pack of guard dogs. Stoke manager Tony Pulis is convinced captain Ryan Shawcross has broad enough shoulders to cope with the flak he is likely to face at Arsenal on Saturday. When you guys first hit the scene with your bootlegs, record companies gave you lots of flak. You fired off a tweet about ISIS recently that got you some flak. There's a cranky curmudgeon working at the hospital who gives all the patients and other doctors flak. Of the fighter losses 29 were from flak, one ran out of fuel, two collided, and one was a victim of friendly fire. Examples from Classical Literature We never worried about the flak much because we could normally avoid it. I'll take you right down on top of them, and nuts to their flak fire. Stan laid over and made a sweep, ducking in and out of the flak. The book is chock-full of combat descriptions of the tough little war, with sections of Venturas fighting the weather and Japanese flak and Oscar and Zeke interceptors. Having behaved so dishonourably, one would have thought the Government would decide to keep its head down, if not to avoid the flak then at least in shame. Over the estuary of the Rhine River Stan met his first flak. Sim's ship had picked up a small piece of flak, but it had done no damage. Find more words! 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