pistol point

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pistol point

n at pistol point → sotto la minaccia della pistola
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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A single glance at the vessel's deck assured me that the battle was over and that we had been victorious, for I saw our survivors holding a handful of the enemy at pistol points while one by one the rest of the crew was coming out of the craft's interior and lining up on deck with the other prisoners.
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Asim Shahzad Abbasi complained to the police that he was sitting in his shop and counting cash collected from members of a locally-managed saving scheme, called Committee, when all of a sudden three unidentified persons armed with pistols and wearing helmets entered his shop and held him at pistol point.
Trader robbed of Rs916,000 in Shamsabad
Malik Shahid reported to the police that as soon as he reached at his shop after drawing a sum of Rs0.4 million, two young men intercepted him and looted the cash on pistol point. Police failed to trace the culprits despite provision of CCTV footage of the incident.
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45000/- and cell phones at pistol point. At the same place the bandits deprived over a dozen villagers of cash and cell phones worth thousands of rupees.
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Examiners and invigilators are threatened at knifepoint or pistol point to keep quite or blink like fools.
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On a J-frame it makes the pistol point at a completely different angle, and does not make it any harder to pull the trigger.
Cutting edge handgun accessories
When Mary tried to divorce him he snatched her from her carriage in London and after a 33-hour journey north demanded at pistol point that she drop the divorce suit.
Villagers put THEIRTRUST in plan for pub
Afsar, and Mudassar Hameed on Monday for looting more than Rs 2 million worth of salaries of Pakistan Cement Karooli, by forcing to stop the Suzuki car carrying the cash at pistol point, and these (then) unknown dacoits snatching away the money bag.
Kallar Kahar police bust dacoits gang
The Jewish guards were held up at pistol point, while the charges were being placed, but it is thought that the Jews made their getaway some time before the explosion, trusting to the natural fear in which the local population holds them, not to give the alarm before the fires began.
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"I was interrogated at pistol point to make sure I wasn't a Nazi sympathiser trying to infiltrate their network.
'The soldiers were so near I could hear the crunch of their jackboots' AT JUST 16, AIRMAN GEORGE WAS SHOT DOWN OVER NAZI-OCCUPIED HOLLAND. THIS IS HIS STORY... A book released next month tells the tales of the WW2 Allied servicemen trapped behind enemy lines. Welsh war hero George Duffee tells NATHAN BEVAN his amazing story.
At pistol point they were pushed roughly up the stairs and thrust into a small, dark chamber.
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To sell this unlikely concept, film cleverly starts with a smoothly executed kidnapping, at pistol point, of a willing young babe (Amy Shells) by a likable young blade (Ben Palmer) and his fellow association members.
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