detonating

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• Any one of them could have—and still may—detonate the deal if the negotiated plan falls apart.

• Another way would be to fly a grenade immediately to where the enemy is positioned, detonating it on contact.

• The leak in Amuay, Venezuela, was slow but kept leaking for more than an hour before the vapor detonated.

• Instead, a man detonated 80 pounds of explosives as part of an elaborate gender-reveal party stunt, the Kingston Police Department told the New Hampshire Union Leader.

• The first H-bomb, detonated by the United States in 1952, was 1,000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

• His target splits with a satisfying rumble, and then the fragments detonate as he strafes them with more bullets.

• Operators on the ground chose to detonate the rocket shortly after launch once it was established that there were problems.

• He was referring to the lone wolves such as ISIS is now urging online to detonate pipe bombs in Times Square.

• Al-Shahzad failed to properly detonate his bomb and was reported to the New York police by a Muslim-American street vendor.

• That a suicide bomber will detonate himself in the middle of Fifth Avenue?

• He then unscrewed the fuze and threw it away before it could detonate the shell.

• They are very difficult to detonate, and if set on fire do not explode like gunpowder.

• The depth-charge had fouled a trailing wire from some of my ‘stage scenery sky’ and been dragged along to detonate close astern.

• I decided to send three balls down each, leave 12 in the cavern, then detonate them all at once.