dumdum bullet

"She had been shot with a dumdum bullet," he claimed.

And from a special pouch Jakob produced three dumdum bullets, tossing them into the young man's lap.

A dumdum bullet tore her right elbow.

It contained a nine-millimetre semi-automatic pistol, loaded with dumdum bullets.

Serbs and Croats are killing one another with dumdum bullets, which were outlawed after the Vietnam War.

Dumdum bullets cause large exit wounds which “immediately incapacitate” the victim, instead of passing smoothly through the body causing potentially non-fatal injuries.

Dumdum bullets impacted with penetrating booms.

A firearms officer held a pistol loaded with dumdum bullets tight against Mr de Menezes's temple and fired seven times.

Some of the exchanges in court were rather like dumdum bullets - a barrister would deliver a "bon mot" which probably only hurt when digested properly.

The bullet had entered at an angle; deflected by a rib, it had burrowed sideways, producing an effect like a dumdum bullet.

We were just lucky that the bullet we took was a rubber bullet from a twenty-two rather than a dumdum bullet from a forty-five.

Dumdum Geschoß (Dumdum Bullet)

The firearms teams were told they would almost certainly be confronting suicide bombers, were issued with dumdum bullets and told they would have to use “unusual tactics”.

They also claimed that the British had used dumdum bullets during the battle and misused a flag of truce; all of which were vigorously denied by the prosecution.

However, the rest of the delegates at the Hague Convention 1899 did not accept this justification and voted 22-2 to prohibit the future use of the dumdum bullet.

The New York City Police Department has never used a dumdum bullet; nor does it use a half-jacketed bullet (mentioned by Mr. Wells).

Meanwhile, how they justify saying that the use of poison gas or dumdum bullets is illegal if going across a border but not if staying within it, I do not understand.

During the Hague Convention of 1899, the British delegation attempted to justify the use of the dumdum bullet by pointing to its utility when putting down colonial unrest.

Graf Hans-Jürgen led his battalion to the gates of Kiev, where in July 1941 he was badly wounded by a dumdum bullet, his right arm rendered useless.

"I don't believe the N.Y.P.D. needs to use dumdum bullets," said Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx Borough President, who is a Democratic candidate for mayor.

They can be dispatched - with sympathy, but also with a bit of bored impatience by now - only with a dumdum bullet to the head (or failing that, a well-aimed shovel).

Ironically, international law has managed to outlaw the poisoned arrow and the dumdum bullet, the land mine and the cluster bomb, but nuclear weapons have thus far been too hot for it to handle.

International agreements on particular types of weapons, such as dumdum bullets, have successfully banned these weapons, largely based on outspoken international opinion in favor of a ban on humanitarian grounds.

After the liberation of Novi Sad the victorious Communist Partisans arrest Popadic and summarily execute him beside the Danube, blowing his brains out with a dumdum bullet.