Mr Solbes, as the commissioner in charge of Eurostat, is particularly in the firing line.
Many financial institutions face a tough post-euro future, but the banks are first in the firing line.
That means first on the firing line are country borrowers Germany and France.
When you put yourself in the firing line, you are open to attack.
Suddenly, markedly, the Welsh Government is in the firing line, or "Labour in Cardiff Bay" as the Prime Minister labelled them.
This is why Brazil's stockmarket has been hurt more than Poland's and why its currency may well be next in the firing line.
In Westminster David Cameron is in the firing line for trying to persuade his party to introduce something that wasn't in its manifesto.
Up until the BP disaster, banks have been the devil incarnate, but BP is now in the firing line and banks are out of it.
The Alzheimer's Society said that a large rise in the capital threshold could take thousands of people "out of the firing line" for huge costs.
Fatherland's main media ally, Media-Most, which broadcasts the only nationwide television programmes that are not under the government's control, is also in the firing line.
Because a state bank, not the country itself, is in the firing line the government may see a court case as embarrassing rather than painful.
The French judge - who has been working on terrorism cases since 2000 - has no doubt that France is in the firing line of the jihadists.
Individual ministers and civil servants will find themselves in the firing line in coming days, but most damaging for the government will be the charge of incompetence.
Aristide may find himself more directly in the firing line.
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He believes Des Browne has a "natural inclination to be a power behind the throne" and will have to adjust to life in the firing line as immigration minister.
"It would have been very easy for me to hire someone else and not deal with this criticism and not be on the firing line for this, " Lyons said.
Even on paper, the funding now available would not be enough to cover the financing needs of all of the countries in the firing line for any length of time.
Mr Hague said cyber attacks were "criss-crossing the globe from north to south and east to west - in all directions, recognising no borders, with all countries in the firing line".
Monye started the last two games at full-back, having been switched from his regular position on the wing, but was moved out of the firing line against Argentina after a nightmare first half.
Lt James MacDonald of the third Battalion The Parachute Regiment put himself in the firing line to identify a Taliban sharpshooter earlier this year - before leading a team to neutralise the threat.
From 1929 to 1932 the main government in the firing line - America - operated a pro-cyclical policy of deflation: that is, making the downturn worse in the belief that it would "cleanse the system".
The decision by Germany's Constitutional Court Wednesday to dismiss a complaint against Europe's permanent bailout fund helped ease pressure on borrowing costs for Italy and Spain, the countries next in the firing line of Europe's sovereign debt crisis.
"Although developing countries didn't make this crisis, it has become all too clear that they are in the firing line when it comes to suffering its worst effects, " Claire Melamed, Head of Policy at ActionAid said in a statement accompanying the report.
There may therefore be an expectation that Mr Murdoch's son, James Murdoch, will be more in the firing line when it comes to the forensic questioning of the committee's members - though at the relevant times, his responsibilities went wider than News International's British newspapers, so he too may not be able to provide answers to everything the committee wishes to know.
"This is yet another illustration of why abandoning our deficit reduction plan would put Britain back in the international firing line, " a spokesman said.
But on January 6th Mr Obama was back in the firing-line, accused of making another dubiously qualified appointment in the shape of Sanjay Gupta, a TV presenter and doctor, to be surgeon-general.
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