a baptism of fire in a sentence

Examples

1. He passed a baptism of fire on July, 25th, 1942 as the commander of a tank company of 183rd tank brigade of 40th Army of the Voronezh Front.
2. The war and the complexity of the play were something of a baptism of fire for the actors, most of them, like Arye, recently arrived from Soviet Russia.
3. The start of the 1998 99 season was a baptism of fire for Smillie and his team, going 12 league games without a win at the start of the campaign.
4. The scheme is enjoying something of a baptism of fire, however, and has generated strong disapproval from some " Wikipedianer " who feel it contravenes the wiki spirit.
5. The match turned out to be a baptism of fire with the Roar unable to contain the Japanese team, losing 2-0 with goals from Tatsuya Yazawa and Aria Jasuru Hasegawa.
6. The dispute could prove to be a baptism of fire for the WTO, which replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade at the beginning of the year as the world trade watchdog.
7. His first class debut came on an unseasonably warm 25 May 1957 . [ 2 ] and what a baptism of fire it was, facing the touring West Indies team at Trent Bridge.
8. The dispute also could prove to be a baptism of fire for the WTO, which replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade at the beginning of the year as the world trade watchdog.
9. The U . S .-Japan auto dispute could prove to be a baptism of fire for the WTO, which replaced GATT at the beginning of the year as the world trade watchdog.
10. Plummer's second-half strafing gave the Deion-less secondary a baptism of fire in what was to come, and against Seattle, Smith and his cohorts seemed to gain confidence.