actual firing

Not for the actual firing but the reasons behind it."

This does not yet involve the actual firing of the rifle.

The actual firing sequence required only one man to pick the targets.

The actual firing was done by the aircraft's computer.

One machine was stationed near the cannon itself, so it could record the actual firing.

After which there is rifle drill and musketry practice, though no actual firing takes place.

Upon issue, these coatings were removed with solvent to ready the M20 for actual firing.

Enemy contacted by hearing, seeing, and actual firing contacts.

They had to be sure the irreversible action of actual firing was in progress before these fuse strips were pulled.

I suspect Romney never even met most of the folks he laid off, and am sure he didn't do the actual firing.

The central platform had railroad track on one axis and the actual firing mount on the other.

Her words were almost coincident with the actual firings of the trennels that held the ship to the stocks.

This technique is often used to simulate actual firing when there is not a suitable place to practice with live ammunition.

There was little actual firing, but two loyalist soldiers were wounded, one losing his leg, when their vehicle hit a rebel-planted mine.

A second titanium door, even more impregnable than the first, stood between these monitoring stations and Morning Star's actual firing controls.

The actual firing was done from the control room, although it could be done by hand from the torpedo room in an emergency.

This improved slide lock kept the gun locked until actual firing occurred which prevented the gun from jamming in the case of a misfire.

We refer to the temperature as an equivalent temperature, since actual firing conditions may vary somewhat from those in which the cones were originally standardized.

We no longer live in a world, he said, where only the actual firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nation's security to constitute maximum peril.

Though the actual firing takes place off camera, Mr. Tweedy shows off a daunting sang-froid in discussing it with a reporter afterward.

His dispatches from the Korean battlefront were quite creditable, coming as they did from the actual firing line assigned to the Filipino contingent.

Jordan has continued to make Chicago his home, and the actual firing of Heard was done by Wes Unseld, the Wizards' general manager.

We would, however, be able to detect any potential laser firings at least ten seconds prior to the actual firing, which would give us an additional margin of safety."

Despite what it represented, he likedthe thing, he enjoyed the touch and heft of it, the way it felt in his hand, the actual firing of it.