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The omnipresence of the Internet in society today certainly lends some credibility to the possibility of explosive growth for online purchasing.
Could it be the explosive growth in industries like construction, agriculture, poultry, and carpet-making?
Car bombs are a very significant part, car bombs, truck bombs, explosive devices.
Armed with 1,000 pound high explosive and cluster bomb warheads, the missiles have ranges of 500-700 kilometers.
Unlike ammonium nitrate, TNT and chlorates, C4 is a military explosive produced in the US and several other countries.
This is the explosive essence of carnival, and it is driven by music from bandwagons, articulated lorries stacked 30 feet high with speakers.
All this has produced explosive social contradictions, including a vast chasm between the wealthy elites and the mass of the population.
It is known that hydrogen sulphide or sulphuretted hydrogen is a foul-smelling, toxic, inflammable, corrosive and explosive gas.
The nutrient-enriched water causes an explosive growth of tiny plants and animals that coat the leaves of the seagrasses.
However, nothing happened until about 9.00 am when the capital was attacked with both incendiary and high explosive bombs.
His danger level continues to escalate toward an explosive season cliffhanger.
Water entrapped by molten metal or slag may generate explosive forces that launch hot metal or material ores over a wide area.
An oil tanker can carry a load that is far, far more explosive than any civil aircraft.
Bookmakers are offering odds of 500-1 that Rooney will receive a knighthood after his explosive Reds debut.
They are expert in producing the highly enriched uranium and plutonium that provide the explosive power.
For him, a libidinal and Dionysian Black Orpheus had the potency to mount an explosive attack on the repressed, repressive West.
Those left behind learned to live with the fear of explosive or incendiary bombs.
The super-eruptions I have talked about so far have all been cataclysmically explosive affairs.
Most of the shells fired by artillery guns were high explosive shells which could throw shrapnel over a wide distance in the trenches.
Instead, the attack crashed into the ground scorching it and sending an explosive shower of dust up into the air.
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Modern categories of artillery fire solid shot, shrapnel, or explosive shells.
Acquisition of fissionable materials is a substantial technical prerequisite for the manufacture of nuclear explosive devices.
Durable in the tackle, his explosive vein now only pops out when he is running with the ball at his feet, not when eyeballing an opponent.
The result is a relatively stable, solid explosive with a consistency similar to modelling clay.
The rubbish rots and gives off gases like methane which is potentially explosive as well as adding to global warming.
Officials detonated three sets of explosive charges on board, and the 2,500-ton vessel slowly sank below the surface.
It's an explosive mix that has turned normal fires into ferocious infernos.
Modern whaling began in 1868, when the harpoon gun and explosive harpoon were invented.
The plane dropped a total of 608,000 tons of high explosive bombs and more than 51 million incendiary bombs.
There is also the random danger of being caught by a car bomb or roadside explosive or in a crossfire.
The police seized weapons including explosive belts, automatic weapons, hand grenades and ammunition.
Two gunmen then appeared, spraying bullets before detonating their explosive belts near the vehicles.
He said two of the men were wearing explosive belts, suggesting they were planning suicide attacks.
After Shepard's flight, astronauts urged NASA to put a small explosive charge on the escape hatch to make it easier to exit the capsule.
Gas had escaped from an underground main into the foundations of the bungalow, forming an explosive cloud.
This is one of the most explosive chemical mixtures known to man, the stuff that makes dynamite blow.
She was looking for a sprinter who could become a bobsleigh pusher, giving her team a competitive edge with explosive starts.
Tiny insects can trigger an explosive opening of mature bunchberry flowers, and are showered with pollen as they fly away.
The viscosity of the magma, however, is also an important factor in determining whether an eruption will be explosive or nonexplosive.
Dissolved gases in the magma determine whether the eruption will be explosive or nonexplosive.
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The explosive crack of a bullwhip can frighten cattle into a pen and even keep lions and tigers at bay.
Water sprayed on the huge exposed seam settles dust and keeps the air clean, and prevents a fire hazard with explosive coal dust.
The early period is one of explosive experimentation, with the eventual winner hard to see.
The plentiful numbers of highly explosive targets, like gas tanks and ammo dumps, are strategic elements of sabotage.
Can the would-be veep be trusted to obediently follow a campaign script without setting off controversy with potentially explosive remarks?
But even with high explosive dual-purpose projectiles, it lacks sufficient penetration of concrete and masonry.
According to unconfirmed reports, militants in disguise opened fire and detonated an explosive device.
The soccer player let out an explosive gust of air and hurled the ball at the ceiling again.
A pulsar is a rotating neutron star, a remnant of the explosive death throes of a star at least eight times as massive as our own sun.
He tells me about one particular incident in 2002, when an explosive belt was found under a gurney transporting a sick child to hospital.
These children had been held at gunpoint with explosive charges placed among them.
We do everything from respond to emergencies involving unsafe munitions on the flightline to disarming improvised explosive devices.
Terrorists, suitcase bombs, anthrax, radiological dirty bombs, and improvised explosive devices dominate the new strategic lexicon.
Reyes runs at defenders with directness and explosive pace and he is not good enough defensively to be regarded as a long term wing solution.
Max processed this for a moment, then let out a sharp, explosive bray of laughter.
In the morning we were off early, following the creek, a tumbling, explosive cataract swollen by snowmelt.
Long a festering popular grievance, official corruption has reached endemic levels, with potentially explosive social consequences.
This column likes to think of itself as pretty fearless, but there are some subjects which are so explosive that I hardly know how to start.
Single nanodiamonds are forged in an explosion of TNT, the explosive hexogen, and water.
Apart from rooting interest, the games were explosive nail-biters, swollen with drama, and all a sports fan could hope for.
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Nitroglycerin is an explosive because no outside source of oxygen is needed for its complete combustion.
After this week's fuss over news we can expect bigger and more explosive bombshells in future.
It's played with a pelota, a rock-hard ball five-sixths the size of a baseball, and with the explosive bounce of a golf ball.
This suggests that the explosive was placed directly on the aircraft's skin.
It's this reaction that powers the sun and gives the explosive force to a hydrogen bomb.
As the explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen ignited, the two turbopumps spun up to speed.
Behind this shift has been a truly explosive rate of increase in personal sector borrowing.
At any rate there are many other examples of explosive increases in price volatility.
The article contained potentially explosive material, yet its contents pass by the editors without comment.
In view of the explosive situation, a posse of policemen has been posted in the village.
It's a complicated case, marred by a disputed confession, a paucity of witnesses and the sudden, explosive nature of the incident itself.
Neither gun nor explosive technology made really dramatic advances among the Allied technological establishments.
The military quickly sealed off the area as army experts searched for more explosive devices.
The explosive growth in the volatility of interest rates and prices is finally over.
He was left to twist in the wind while the press glorified his editor for having some second thoughts about the explosive articles.
During their tests, honeybees swarmed areas where explosive residue was present.
During the tour the commandos also discovered 320 improvised explosive devices.
The other car bomb detonated at a site where experts were dismantling an improvised explosive devise.
She said truckers must also contend with improvised explosive devices on the road.
So many American troops and others have been killed by those improvised explosive devices.
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The insurgents who were there have vanished, leaving improvised explosive devices buried everywhere.
Taking his father's advice, Titus makes some adjustments to the fuel mixture ratio with explosive and disastrous results!
But in any event, I think that this issue of biological warfare is a very explosive one that has to be handled carefully.
Her magical attacks flew thick and fast, peppering her enemy with flaming explosive shots.
The teacher sighed and quickly pulled the trigger of the shotgun as an explosive noise ran to all directions.
The missile is armed with a 3kg high explosive warhead loaded with tungsten ball projectiles.
If they locate heat sources on or near a road, the location can be triangulated as a possible site for an improvised explosive device.
After the elegant minuet, the finale's explosive power was unleashed with impressive panache and energy.
It was a dangerous time to be involved in the Labor Party, as politics and religion proved again to be an explosive mixture.
The striker's explosive dash past Bob Malcolm midway through the second half deserved better than the weak finish he contrived to produce.
Now the sophistication of the device has authorities pretty rattled, especially as a unique mixture of explosive compounds was involved.
Ads designed to assemble litigants for class action suits represent an explosive area of growth in legal advertising.
Lately, he's taken to assailing university officials who dare to cross him on this explosive issue.
That is the first and last time I am ever going to use an explosive charge to perform a bullet hit like that.
Apparently, they made their way into the basement, planted explosive charges, and detonated them.
What they were successful in doing was setting off enough explosive charges to demolish the entire cavern.
Modern land mines may be an encased charge of explosive or may contain a chemical agent or incendiary device.
No building remains intact, after they were blown up with explosive charges.
The rebel soldiers placed explosive charges around the building during the 22-hour revolt.
The heated, heady campus milieu provides tinder for explosive debates in which more than mere politics is at stake.
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Billed as an explosive mix of murder and betrayal on the Costa del Sol, it features the high life enjoyed by British ex-pat villains.
They've been firing into those improvised explosive devices, homemade bombs, with tanks, setting off huge explosions.
A dirty bomb is an explosive device manufactured to spread harmful radioactive material over a wide range.
The vehicles will provide increased protection against grenades, improvised explosive devices, and small-arms fire.
Well it's a bomb, an explosive device, which has contained within it some radioactive material.
Roadside bombs or improvised explosive devices are inflicting a heavy toll on American troops.
The truth is that weapons, even explosive or incendiary devices, still can get aboard a plane.
In Nassau, the US has installed high tech solutions, including explosive sniffers, around the embassy.
The work of military and civilian bomb disposal experts also involves the handling of improvised explosive devices planted by terrorist groups.
Officers were yesterday searching several addresses but no weapons or any explosive devices were believed to have been found.
These are invariably volcanic rocks, including rhyolites, andesites, basalts, and their explosive equivalents, pyroclastic rocks.
Their priority is an end to air strikes, tank attacks, artillery barrages, sniping, car bombs and roadside explosive devices.
An improvised explosive device, a pipe bomb, went off and yes, it has, I suppose, marred the reputation of the 1996 Olympics.
The air force launched a massive air raid with high explosive bombs on the shipyard.
Many wonderful, strange, kinky and explosive things have happened since last I blogged.
A new kid will use a remote explosive to take out a target efficiently, but it's messy and it's also very risky.
One popular explosive for industrial use is made from fertilizers like ammonium nitrate or urea, fuel oil, and nitric or sulfuric acid.
It made less than three knots but carried a warhead of 200 kg of explosive and a number of limpet mines.
As the camera zooms it, the object is revealed to be a detonator for an explosive device.
They somehow got a direct hit on one of our explosive dumps which exploded with a detonation louder than anything I ever heard.
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The tube is then subjected to a detonative shock from a high explosive donor charge.
The first half had been a solid, uneventful affair, but the second half started in explosive fashion.
He also coinvented the explosive powder cordite and even worked in collaboration with legendary chemist Pierre Curie.
And in the case of magma it can foam and outgas very volatile compounds that can cause explosive eruptions and throw projectiles great distances.
The explosive charges carried by the suicide bombers were packed with ball bearings and pieces of metal to maximise death and injury.
He choreographed ballets that involved the full company in explosive outbursts of energy.
A telling and potentially explosive social indicator is the decline in the percentage of teenagers holding jobs.
The work suggests a metal contraption, perhaps an explosive device that could be detonated with a push of the beige button.
The title symbolically equips the with explosive power and a procreative, insectlike ubiquity.
A consideration of Rheic margin tectonics reveals several possible source terranes for silicic explosive volcanism.
She wasn't trained extensively in weaponry and ballistics, but it never really was hard to place the sound of a thermal explosive going off.
The prime minister has once again gambled on an explosive acceleration in economic growth that has yet to materialise.
Increased birth rates and immigration have resulted in explosive growth in elementary and secondary school student enrollments.
Economic collapse, with the resultant decimation of health and social care, has led to the explosive increase in the number of TB cases.
In the face of the explosive increase in the disease now being seen worldwide, this can only be a temporary phenomenon.
The explosive growth of hedge funds has certainly increased the volatility of markets.
An explosive increase in car ownership is blamed for a sharp rise in unhealthy emissions.
In reality, the psychiatrist, a loose canon with an explosive temper, is more in need of anger management than his client.
If he knows that he could be frisked, he can place a non-metal explosive in a location that will not be disclosed by a frisk.
If anything, she has found being a woman has its advantages in terms of defusing explosive situations.
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His explosive temper not only caused an opposing player's arm to be broken, it sullied the reputation of one of his players.
The explosive controversy surrounding the scandal carried an important lesson for conservatives.
Both men were temperamental and subject to long periods of brooding followed by explosive outbursts of anger.
Willingness to negotiate and compromise, when appropriate, helps regain control of an explosive situation.
But some Marines are now digging into their own bag of tricks, getting ready, making their own explosive charges.
The second plank of the prosecution case is forensic, with claims that drug and explosive residue was discovered on baggage belonging to the men.
The dragon shattered into the shadows as the scintillation of explosive elemental forces raced out and away from the impact.
The union officials called the strike in an effort to diffuse explosive social tensions.
As it turned out before bedtime I played witness to one of Mia's explosive temper tantrums.
That night airships dropped high explosive bombs and incendiaries on Bradley, Tipton, Wednesbury and Walsall.
In the Underground they were safe from the high explosive and incendiary bombs that rained down on London night after night.
Independent Ballet Wales bring this classical folk tale to life mixing explosive dance and classical ballet in a truly unforgettable evening.
It's official name in the UK is explosive cyclogenesis, which sounds a little biblical, and no-less scary.
Vans carrying anti-riot squad officers and dog handlers flooded the street to defuse what could have been an explosive situation.
Here is a suggested sequence of events to participate in to get through anger or a potentially explosive situation.
Fewer spoken words start with vowels, which provide more subtle acoustic cues than the more explosive consonant sounds.
When this vehicle was blown apart by an improvised explosive device, an IED, debris flew in every direction.
So I expect that barring some explosive news it'll be down the memory hole within a month.
Yet young children, teenagers and irresponsible adults are carrying in hand and pocket highly explosive materials.
Imagine that a private company had developed an explosive ten times more powerful than Semtex.
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They knew for some time that this highly explosive material had disappeared.
Flying jets in wing formation in the weather and carrying explosive ordnance on board is dangerous work.
I'm learning speed and explosive movements, and in the past six months, I've been doing yoga for flexibility.
Some time back I was asked about steps being taken to counter low-tech improvised explosive devices in Iraq.
Activity at the summit is nearly continuous, characterized by occasional lava overflow and brief, highly explosive eruptions.
I mean if it's the same people who stole the truck they've got nuclear material, high explosive and that is a dirty bomb.
To fire the weapon a projectile containing the propellant and explosive is dropped into the muzzle.
His tales aren't rhythmic and quiet narrations, but explosive stories of passion and elan.
The simple atom bomb owed its explosive power to the energy released by nuclear fission, or fusion.
In a separate incident, a branch near the capital was damaged by a explosive device made from small cooking gas cylinders.
To some, it seemed like both men's actions were crucial in defusing a potentially explosive situation.
The live act contains unusual aspects like action painting, and is demanding, explosive and equally extreme, and the audiences reflect that.
At around 9.30 pm, the explosive disposal squad was in place to defuse the bomb.
It was a rare outburst from the 23-year-old, normally as genial and calm outside the ring as he is explosive in it.
We've got some information from touts, but no one knows how much explosive they have.
During his last days Parsons was reduced to working for Hollywood movies, making tiny explosive squibs that mimicked a man being shot.
The inside of the bomb is tarred to keep the explosive away from the metal on the inside of the bomb.
Similarly the very explosive eruptions in the Glacier Peak range were associated with rapid ice sheet thinning.
He said no one had been able to identify the person responsible for dumping the explosive device in a garbage bin.
We're tasked with ensuring areas are swept free of any possible explosive devices left by a would-be assassin.
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The grenades burst out from the warhead at 150m from the target, saturating a large area with deadly explosive power.
As we reported, the military today said it discovered sarin nerve gas in an explosive device, an artillery shell, in fact.
To carry out his plan, he purchased more explosive devices and assembled two remote control devices.
To complete the illusion, a small explosive charge was to go off in the grocery bag.
Hidden among the explosive greenery are waterfront and hillside cottages, and palm-thatch gazebos where guests are taking dinner.
They provide the explosive force delivered by hand grenades, bombs, and artillery shells.
Breaching minefields and other explosive obstacles that were widely used during the war posed a special difficulty.
The core elements of such groups can be tanks as well as minefields and explosive obstacles.
He was making a carefully considered statement, which he well knew would be explosive in its implications.
The Tracey Review tore into Captain Toohey's reasoning and his explosive conclusions, and this is the report the Government released last night.
To increase muscle power, consider adding plyometrics and fast, explosive lifts to your routine.
The additional altitude would give us a bit of insurance against a possible explosive mid-air meeting with one of our friends.
The preparation of freebase cocaine involves highly explosive solvents, extensive production time, and specialized equipment.
The first chemical explosive was gunpowder, or black powder, a mixture of charcoal, sulfur, and potassium nitrate.
In the gym I tend to do a lot of plyometrics and explosive work because a lot of fencing is about footwork and changing the rhythm.
Dog noses at best discern 20 or so explosive scents, but electronic detectors, at least in theory, can screen a far larger array.
This magma is rich in carbon dioxide gas, which produces explosive eruptions.
Both tanks contained full combat loads of high explosive rounds, as well as.50 caliber and 7.62 rounds.
The principal effect of a bomb is explosive blast, which may be combined with fragmentation or incendiary effects.
The waste from a defunct reactor is full of plutonium, a highly toxic metal used as the explosive in atomic bombs.
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Add to that their intense personal dislike for one another, and you have an explosive mix.
One hundred people were evacuated from a village near York today after a storage tank leaked, releasing an explosive cloud of propane gas.
It's great for anaerobic fitness, your reactions will improve and your explosive power will benefit.
Several earlier lava domes formed after May 18, 1980 had been removed by explosive eruptions.
Slowly rising lava domes may grow for months or for several years in the aftermath of explosive eruptions.
The eruption has been characterized by lava dome extrusion, dome-collapse pyroclastic flows and explosive activity.
The suitcase contained chlorate of potash and paraffin wax, which was mixed with gelignite to form an explosive compound.
Those same officials said the chemicals found are more commonly used to increase the explosive power of conventional bombs.
With an explosive set of new proposals to go with it, it might provide the much-needed counterblast to Labour.
Three warehouses containing explosive materials, gas cylinders and powerful firecrackers were completely destroyed.
The scanner can display hidden guns, knives, batteries, digital watches, explosive materials and packages of drugs secreted under clothing.
The pressure pad on top pushes down a plunger which detonates the explosive charge in the mine.
An FBI expert witness testified that there was enough plastic explosive hidden in his shoes to blow a large hole in the American Airlines plane.
Pipe bombs and plastic explosive can both be quite small and easily concealed on a person's body or in a bag, he added.
Rocket propelled grenades, mortars, and other explosive devices cause concussive shock blasts damaging to the brain.
Filled with an explosive combination of saltpeter and black powder, these were the primitive ancestors of rockets.
Next, an abrasive water jet cuts the metal projectile body in two places to enable removal of the aluminum explosive casing.
In a transparent attempt to defuse the explosive anger that swept the Arab world, they promised to hold those responsible accountable.
Apart from being deactivated, potentially explosive acetylides are also produced.
While the convoy weaved its way through the narrow streets of a small town, an improvised explosive devise exploded.
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Navigational inaccuracies were compensated for by developing bigger explosive forces.
The new simulator recreates the speed and force of an explosive shock wave using computer-controlled hydraulic actuators.
There are some explosive stop-start punky thrashes that sound like Pavement at warp-speed.
Many potentially explosive situations can be diffused if they are dealt with swiftly, calmly, and rationally.
The news is now reporting the explosive was a toy grenade filled with black powder and a fuse.
Here was an explosive mixture of irresponsible talk and adolescent thrill-seeking.
The idea here is to use an adsorbent surface to concentrate explosive vapours.
But don't worry, Mi Ling and Cleopatra Jones take care of business in the explosive karate-chop shoot-out action finale.
When she rolls up to the house of the preternaturally nasty John at one point in the film, she seems genuinely surprised at his explosive reaction to her sudden intrusion.
And he was there in Beirut when the explosive cloud rose over the BLT Headquarters 30 years ago.
Historical records provide evidence of at least six volcano slope failures and associated explosive eruptions that occurred over the last century.
The locals might be laughing but the slick, wealthy crowd is here and ready for an explosive weekend at the legendary festival.
Burning Man Jay Kirk, GQ On his first tour of duty in Afghanistan, Sam Brown was set on fire by an improvised explosive device.
On Tuesday, according to Icasualties.org, an improvised explosive device killed Cpl. William J. Woitowicz in Afghanistan.
They have more testosterone which gives them more explosive energy.
Many of the wars in this century were fought with TNT as the main explosive and with gunpowder as the main propellant of bullets and artillery shells.
By definition, explosive ordnance is any munitions, weapon delivery system, or ordnance item that contains explosives, propellants, and chemical agents.
The explosive finale, when demonic fans run amok at a movie premiere, is hair-raising in its viciousness.
Magnesium also helps in the release of energy by transferring the key phosphate molecule to adenosine triphosphate, the explosive energy source you use when you lift weights.
Kostas, a local farmer, proudly offered us a jug of his explosive homemade wine and lamb and chicken, doused with herbs and garlic, were laid before us as an instant feast.
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Filling in their sound with a bevy of horns, keyboards and synthesizers, the explosive troupe leaves a larger than life impression on their audiences.
Preferably, the explosive slug is placed between the compartment containing the lacrimatory substance and the compartment containing the pyrogenic substance.
Rocket fuels and explosive devices to separate the rocket's stages in flight or to destroy the craft if it veers off course are loaded into the rocket.
One of the caches was huge, with a number of surface to air missiles, grenade launchers, a thousand pounds of plastic explosive and other munitions.
She had just barely leaped to safety as the building exploded, the antique plastique explosive blasting metal shards from the building into the trees they were hiding behind.
What makes communalism explosive is the psychology of mass-desperation that creates the ideal climate for inventing scapegoats and hypothetical enemies.
The blast of high explosive sent a cloud of dust fountaining into the air.
For now, the young boys will not go back to school, but will help mix the explosive powder and meld the iron.
I can make or disable virtually any explosive except a nuke.
After an uneasy stand-off there was a brief but explosive confrontation.
Glass boxes were stacked upon each other, each containing one type of rifle or explosive device, from the silent gun to the bazooka, time bombs to grenades.
These have been the years in which the explosive growth of both economies leapt from being something British business thought worth watching to an obsessive interest.
They are the consummate show band, highly skilled musicians with theatrical flair, and their live shows are sure to be an explosive and unforgettable experience.
If you continue to have diarrhea or explosive gas, you do need to see your practitioner.
A sharp inward breath as splinters from the wall behind and to his right whizzed past his ears as the explosive bark of the gun nearly deafened him.
Surveying the current research, the iom found large gaps in our knowledge of the medical impacts of explosive blasts.
He also said his laboratory had identified the explosive materials as trinitrotoluene, Research Development Explosives and High Melting Explosive.
It is a historic gold mine where students can practice various underground mining techniques as well as research modern explosive and rock mechanics.
The battalion was shelled intermittently with high explosive and shrapnel.
Rich in pumice, ash, and tuff deposits, the conical formations are the products of explosive volcanic eruptions that occurred between 6 and 7 million years ago.
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He could easily have attached an explosive device and blown up both subs.
Despite the predictable salacious stories of Hollywood, the most explosive and emotionally affecting part of this book involves Eszterhas' father.
For instance, I'd normally do this workout two months before competition because the plyometrics help increase speed, agility and explosive strength needed for a show.
It is going to be a very explosive fight between two aggressive punchers.
Each cord initiates a small explosive device that injects a violently active organic compound subcutaneously into a large area of the volunteer's chest.
Several homes in nearby have already been demolished after suffering a potentially explosive build-up of the gas, which is known to miners as Fire Damp.
The two powerful explosive charges being laid are expertly placed.
Whatever the motive for the shooting, political experts are quick to point out that even the threat of political violence can have an explosive effect.
The tremendous speed with which they abandoned all their previous standpoints is a measure of the depth and extent of the explosive contradictions tearing society apart.
The captain did the only sane thing to do in a very explosive situation.
This guy's nasty, explosive temper outweighs his good points by far!
However, there has not been a single explosive increase in spending similar to what would have been required to make the business plans of the bubble years a reality.
Since then, the argument goes, there has been an explosive increase in the quantity of money in circulation, mainly due to the creation of credit.
Dramatic improvement in storage technology, coupled with the explosive growth of the Internet, has fundamentally changed the way in which storage is used.
The Rams can still move the ball in explosive fashion when the spirit moves them, but their weak defense and special teams and front-office paranoia are major detriments.
Not until the army fires an explosive into their hideout and the mall burns down does the ordeal finally reach closure.
We are testing an MLRS rocket in which we have replaced the rocket's individual submunitions with a single explosive munition and have matched it with a guidance system.
A second explosive was found undetonated in a grassy park near the mosque.
This is a dramatically different view of star death, one that entails multiple explosive outbursts and not just a single bang, as previously thought.
In an old box used to transport artillery shells, the soldiers found strips of highly explosive cordite that had been emptied out of artillery shells.
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This inevitably creates a highly toxic and explosive political situation.
The explosive material was ingeniously placed in printer ink cartridges where the ink powder normally goes.
A wayward camera does not help student wizards to catapult malevolent plants at poisonous mushrooms or send explosive cauldrons flying into barriers.
This material was used to blow up the Pan Am airplane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1987, and can also be used as the explosive charge in the detonation of a nuclear device.
The robotic vehicle, Cyclops, is a coup for the diving teams, giving them the ability to remotely attack and defeat an explosive device or booby trap.
Nearby rock vaporized instantly with explosive force, creating a hellish chamber of radiation and overwhelming pressure several hundred yards in diameter.
This article offers a new explanation of the explosive tension by arguing that an organized male political campaign conjoined with a socioeconomic protest led by market women.
Almost all were killed by improvised explosive devices and land mines.
Over the past decade, we have learned a thing or two about how insurgents fight, their tactics and methods, and their weapons and explosive devices.
Some news accounts warned that its explosive force upon impact would be 350,000 megatons, eight million times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
Once sensors detect a target, preferably a tank or armored personnel cartier, the submunition fires an explosive projectile into the top of the target.
Three minutes later, the screener noticed that the explosive trace detection machine indicated a positive alert for Semtex, a plastic explosive, from the laptop.
In addition, if things get really bad, an emergency button under a safety cover will fire explosive charges, which blow out the windscreen to provide an emergency exit.
A few hours later, troops blew up the house with explosive charges.
The nature of the degassing process within a volcanic edifice is critically important to the nature of eruptions, whether explosive or effusive, from the volcano.
This time, the suddenness of the fall was reinforced by the fact that it immediately followed her latest explosive re-entry into the political firmament.
At that point I began to hear birds chirping over the explosive sound of the firing range, I looked around in confusion, and then was awakened suddenly.
The event was the men's open division and the top surfers took advantage of favourable conditions with some high scoring rides and explosive surfing on the big waves.
The mountains absorbed the shock and explosive power of the ordnance.
The magazine's story at most provided an incidental spark that ignited the explosive outrage against US policies and practices that exists throughout the region.

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