firing party

Example Sentences

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Madden used some visual evaluation to determine race, a practice she said mirrored “the evaluations of the hiring/firing parties whose behavior and choices we were studying.”

From Washington Post

Nearby stood a military band, an 82nd Airborne color guard and a firing party, its seven soldiers arrayed in line.

From Washington Post

A firing party of 14 will each fire three rounds in unison, and a bugler will sound the Last Post at the end of the private service.

From The Guardian

Six soldiers will carry his coffin into the crematorium, a firing party of 14 will each fire three rounds in unison and a World War Two-era plane will perform a flypast.

From BBC

Escorts will consist of service-branch body bearers, a firing party, an escort commander with a guidon along with a bugler, drummer and a chaplain.

From Washington Times