(1) Soon after 6 pm the spasmodic barking of the night-time cannonade (now normal in spite of its intensity) gave place to a u2018kettle-drum bombardmentu2019.(2) This was a recipe for confusion and bloodshed; it culminated in the disastrous French cannonade on Damascus in November 1944.(3) A desultory cannonade began at about 14.00, and as it seemed likely that there would be no battle that day Newcastle retired to his coach.(4) the French attack began with a cannonade(5) Surprisingly, after his cannonade of criticism, Kramer's book offers only small-bore recommendations, u2018modestu2019 by his own admission.(6) The son et lumiu00e8re raged off Southsea Common, watched by hundreds of thousands of people long past dusk, before a stunning 15-minute cannonade of fireworks lit up the Solent.(7) he unleashed a cannonade of invective(8) None of them were present at the famous cannonade , but their main forces were certainly caught up in the rain-soaked and disease-ravaged retreat which followed.(9) Three times the German armor attempted to break through, but, as more battalions of American artillery joined the cannonade , the enemy at last gave way.(10) An immersion theatre using the latest special effects will give visitors an idea of the bloody carnage that the relentless cannonade of grapeshot inflicted on the Jacobite lines.(11) In the 2000 ceremony, to make up for lost time, the Church created 860 additional saints, making this by far the biggest cannonade of saints ever set off in Russia.(12) What we need is a cannonade to knock out whoever might be there.(13) I asked him if he sincerely thought that his daily cannonade of reports, forms, checks and feedbacks led to a better or worse health service, whether in the short term or the long.(14) Full-page ads in The New York Times and The Washington Post are now standard weapons for enviro campaigns, but no one had thought of using advertising as a cannonade before Brower.(15) Brown intends to put this right in his budget speech next week, however, when he will launch a cannonade against what their cuts in services would mean.(16) Melba's initial trill possessed the ballistic force of a cannonade .
