The resignation itself was the cause of controversy, with Sir Alec Bedser, Chairman of the TCCB selectors, making it clear after media questioning that Botham would have been fired in any event.

For example, a shot fired at the traveler's grandfather misses, or the gun jams or misfires, or the grandfather is injured but not killed, or the person killed turns out to be not the real grandfather — or some other event prevents the attempt from succeeding.

Oral tradition has it that 14-year old French Prince Napoléon Eugène Louis Bonaparte fired his first cannon in this battle, an event memorated by the Lulustein memorial in Alt-Saarbrücken.

Two days after the event, people bring flowers to the de Maisonneuve entrance of Dawson College where the first shots had been fired

On Vince McMahon's McMahon DVD, Slaughter said he was fired by McMahon in Toronto after no-showing an event in protest of McMahon's refusal to give him six weeks of paid vacation.

Prior to the ejections, a US electronic surveillance plane monitoring the event recorded the lead Libyan pilot report to his ground controller that he had fired a missile at one of the US fighters and gave no indication that the missile shot was unintended.

For example, in the classic double-slit experiment where electrons are fired randomly at two slits, an intuitive interpretation is that, where is the probability of that event.

" In the event, at the outset of the Franco-Prussian War, 462, 000 German soldiers concentrated flawlessly on the French frontier while only 270, 000 French soldiers could be moved to face them, the French army having lost 100, 000 stragglers before a shot was fired through poor planning and administration.

He said that " if Dent had been fired in Seattle or Milwaukee, this would have been just another event in an endless line of George's jettisons.

Performers who shoot during a wrestling event are often punished ( often by lower pay or relegation to opening bouts ) or even fired, since it is thought that they cannot be trusted to act according to the bookers ' wishes.

He held the title once more, this time with Sabu, until Sabu was ( legitimately ) fired by ECW owner Paul Heyman for no showing an event in favor of appearing at another event in Japan.

Subsequent investigations of the event reached conflicting conclusions on whether the police or the marchers fired the first shots.

If a bullet is fired from a suppressed weapon, a witness can mistake the bullet bow audible shockwave whip-crack for the weapon muzzle blast audible wave, which is a separate audible event.

From this evidence the government of Colombia concluded that the impoverished Roa with his diminished mental capacities had been paid to stand near the event with a recently fired revolver.

The cannon are maintained in working order and are fired on event days to recreate the sounds and atmosphere of a working fortress.

Sir Henry Clinton wrote, " I think that this is the greatest event that has happened the whole war ", and celebratory cannons were fired when the news reached London.

In his exhaustive, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Long, Williams wrote ( p. 870, Vintage edition ) that " no one had taken it very seriously, for unless all the witnesses to the event were lying or mistaken, only four shots had been fired while Huey was still in the corridor, the two from Weiss's pistol that struck Huey and Roden's wristwatch respectively and the two from the revolvers of Roden and Coleman that dropped Weiss.

Incremental search on a non-local server, as in Web search, uses more network bandwidth and server processing than non-incremental search, due to the handling of XMLHttpRequests ( or similar ) which are typically fired from each onkeyup event.

Reihl-Kir had also stated that Šušak was in the group that fired Armbrust missiles on civilian houses in mostly Serb populated Borovo Selo in April 1991, an event that indirectly led to Borovo Selo killings later on.

In any event, the 1. 7 million shells fired in the 7-day preparatory barrage and first day of the battle and the 17 mines fired just prior to the assault failed to destroy the German defenders on most parts of the front.

In a similar event during the 2006-2007 NHL season, Rolston fired a slapshot on Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo.

In the tradition of historic Charleston's Civil War and Revolutionary War heritage, a cannon is fired to start the event.

The guns are fired, the hymns are sung, and the body of Charles is carried down to the vault and laid beside the tombs of his ancestors.

One must first detect a fleeting mobile or moving target, decide that it is worthy of destruction, select the missile to be fired against the target, compute ballistics for the flight, and prepare the missile for firing.

It is probable that a Confederate soldier fired the fatal round.

The manner in which artillery units or formations are employed is called artillery support, and may at different periods in history refer to weapons designed to be fired from ground, sea, and even air-based weapons platforms.

Use of two guns was therefore a reasonable compromise, as this allowed one gun to be cocked as the other is being fired, in practical terms doubling the rate of fire and the available number of bullets.

Krogstad arrives and tells Nora that he is worried he will be fired.

Torvald dismisses her fears and explains that although Krogstad is a good worker and seems to have turned his life around, he must be fired because he is not deferential enough to Torvald in front of other bank personnel.

The player ’ s imagination is fired as they plan to rob the train.

Van Driessen is fired from his job in the " School Test " episode by Principal McVicker, who blamed him for Beavis and Butt-Head being " so damn stupid.

The colour of bubbles fired is randomly generated and chosen from the colors of bubbles still left on the screen.

More commonly it is fired in a kiln of some sort to form a true ceramic.

The shaped clay is then fired (" burned ") at 900-1000 ° C to achieve strength.

In modern brickworks, this is usually done in a continuously fired tunnel kiln, in which the bricks move slowly through the kiln on conveyors, rails, or kiln cars to achieve consistency for all bricks.

In industrial fired heaters, power station steam generators, and large gas-fired turbines, the more common way of expressing the usage of more than the stoichiometric combustion air is percent excess combustion air.

Carbines were short enough to be loaded and fired from horseback but this was rarely done-a moving horse is a very unsteady platform, and once halted a soldier can load and fire more easily if dismounted, which also makes him a smaller target.

One less-noted advantage of PCCs is their lower muzzle report compared to more powerful rifles ; because they are less noisy when fired, they are less likely to cause permanent hearing damage when fired indoor without hearing protection-this can be an important consideration during home defense.

In path tracing, however, only a single ray or none is fired at each intersection, utilizing the statistical nature of Monte Carlo experiments.

The concept is similar to the LGH device originally only fired from a rifle, as a plastic retrieval line is attached.

Bronze has several characteristics that made it preferable as a construction material: although it is relatively expensive, does not always alloy well, and can result in a final product that is " spongy about the bore ", bronze is more flexible than iron and therefore less prone to bursting when exposed to high pressure ; cast iron cannon are less expensive and more durable generally than bronze and withstand being fired more times without deteriorating.

A double-barreled shotgun is a shotgun with two parallel barrels, allowing two shots to be fired in quick succession.