Sentences with phrase «as bombs in»

The large propane tanks function as bombs in a forest fire.

«Steve Jobs» movie is a box office disaster as it bombs in the box office.

Not exact matches

The building plans will make it easier for your employees to stay safe in case of another terrorist attack in Boston, such as the bombing at the Boston Marathon.

On April 26, 1986, a radioactive release many times as large as the that of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

Hardware — as well as more access to high - speed internet connections — were powerful players in why and how the Boston marathon bombings have felt so real: It was documented with powerful cameras, and uploaded nearly instantly to the Web, from multiple angles.

During the trial, prosecutors argued that Dzhokhar was a full and equal partner in the bombing, while Clarke characterized him as a naive teenager who was greatly influenced and radicalized by his older brother.

Matanov told an unidentified witness cooperating with the government that «the bombings could have had a just reason, such as being done in the name of Islam, that he would support the bombings if the reason were just or the attack had been done by the Taliban,» according to the papers.

Not according to Plasticity co-founder and chief marketing officer Jennifer Moss, who says that while it's true that some employees don't like the company's platform, many benefit from it in ways that aren't as attention - grabbing as the smile - bomb surprise that Plasticity suggests trying: covering a co-worker's desk in sticky note messages about how great they are.

During the sentencing phase of Tsarnaev's trial in federal court in Boston, his lawyers have been trying to paint him as a mostly normal American kid who fell under the spell of his now - deceased older brother, ultimately joining him in the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon.

These underwater fireballs were roughly as energetic as the bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki in August 1945.

Together, the explosions released 400 times as much radioactive fallout as the bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

Trump's declaration came as Moscow, which is backing Syria in its long civil conflict, has denounced the bombing campaign with undisguised contempt.

Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June — before Iran enters what Israelis described as a «zone of immunity» to commence building a nuclear bomb.

The two individuals believed to be responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday have been positively identified as Tamerlan Tsaraev, now deceased, and Dzhokar Tsarnaev, now in custody.

That's hundreds of millions of times as much as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and roughly 163,000 times as much as the Soviet Union's test of Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961.

We watched as police scoured Boston in a dramatic 24 - hour manhunt to find the brothers — one of whom, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was just found guilty of planting the bombs.

Prosecutors have painted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an equal partner to his brother in the bombing, citing al Qaeda propaganda found on his computer and a note he wrote that cast the attack as retribution for U.S. military campaigns in Muslim lands.

In a matter of moments, the Boston Marathon bombings inflicted as much as $ 333 million in damage to the local economIn a matter of moments, the Boston Marathon bombings inflicted as much as $ 333 million in damage to the local economin damage to the local economy.

As iRobot's Joe Dyer told me while I was working on Sex, Bombs and Burgers, robotic automation always comes in on «cat's feet,» or one step at a time.

With these little - known ETPs as ticking time bombs and allegations of VIX manipulation, Chilton said he would not be surprised if investors lost some confidence in the system.

If I were anywhere near San Francisco, I'd be there in a heartbeat as much of the conference touches on things found in Sex, Bombs and Burgers.

Another car bomb, in the mixed Shi'ite - Sunni southern neighbourhood of al - Rasheed, killed six and wounded 21, the sources said, in what a military spokesman described as a suicide attack.

According to their calculations, based on data released by the Pentagon as well as information collected by think tanks and news organizations, the U.S. dropped some 26,171 bombs across all its weapons platforms, on targets in seven different countries.

High - grade military explosives used to build the bomb were sent by air cargo from Turkey as part of a plot inspired and directed by the militant Islamic State group, police Deputy Commissioner National Security Michael Phelan said in August.

His first book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology As We Know It, was published in March 2010 by Penguin Canada.

And with the capacity to carry air - to - air missiles as well as precision guided bombs and air - to - ground missiles, the F / A -18 is fully able to engage in a wide variety of targets.

In July, an Australian man sent his unsuspecting brother to the Sydney airport to catch an Etihad Airways flight carrying a home - made bomb disguised as a meat mincer built at the direction of a senior Islamic State commander, police said.

But the central thesis of «The Bomb,» and one Schlosser made strongly in «Command and Control» (which also premiered at Tribeca as a documentary film adaptation), is that mortifying accidents have happened, and will happen again: People are human and nuclear weapons are machines.

As President Obama announces a military expansion in Syria, an analyst says the U.S. is running through its supply of bombs.

For decades, he has negotiated and determined the size of settlement payouts for victims of such tragedies as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Virginia Tech massacre, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing.

The president's credibility has also been tainted by her sometimes erratic response to the shocking death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman as he was investigating an alleged cover - up deal between her government and Iran to shield the Islamic Republic from prosecution in the 1994 bombing of Jewish center.

Palantir tech has been credited with helping the U.S. military detect roadside bombs in Afghanistan as well as helping create a controversial license plate database for the State of California.

AMMAN (Reuters)- After Syrian forces bombed the town of Douma earlier this month in an attack the United States says involved chlorine gas, Washington and its allies launched missile strikes as punishment.

Is this remarkable episode, variously described by some observers as a Tea Party «hostage - taking» or even «suicide bombing,» going to end in the unthinkable?

Katherine Russell, who converted to Islam after entering into a relationship with accused terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev, reportedly texted a friend shortly after the bombs went off: «As far as I know Tamerlan was at home in Cambridge.&raquAs far as I know Tamerlan was at home in Cambridge.&raquas I know Tamerlan was at home in Cambridge.»

He had been convicted in absentia of more than a dozen murders as well as of being part of the Mafia's leadership who ordered the 1992 bombings that, in separate attacks, killed Sicily's top two anti-Mafia investigators, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

One final aspect of food technology, which I explore in my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, is its use by the United States as a weapon, figuratively speaking.

The storm will continue through Thursday and is expected to deliver several inches of snow as it moves up the coast in what meteorologists are calling a «bomb cyclone.»

The storm has continued to grow increasingly powerful in a process called bombogenesis — known to some as a bomb cyclone — which occurs when a system's central air pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours.

The much - hyped wearable - faux - pas bombed as a consumer offering — and, at least in the popular imagination, has joined the grand pantheon of flopdom alongside such legendary names as New Coke and the Edsel.

Once used as an atomic bomb shelter, Swedish internet provider Bahnhof AB's office in Stockholm is 100 feet below the surface.

A US - Israeli citizen, the man is reportedly suspected of carrying out bomb threats and other threats across the US as well as in Europe, in Australia, and in New Zealand.

As a former executive in the industry, I saw a ton of bombs but also many blockbuster ads — and they didn't cost anywhere near $ 500,000.

This alarms North Korea's adversaries because the nation recently detonated a thermonuclear device that yielded the energy of perhaps 300 kilotons of TNT — about 20 times as much as the bomb the US detonated over Hiroshima in 1945.

The man accused of carrying out a three - week bombing spree that killed two people in Texas before blowing himself up as police closed in on him was a 23 - year - old unemployed man from suburban Austin, authorities said.

And Coulter pushed back against the vilification of Trump - boosters in the conservative press, characterizing many of those lobbing bombs as irrelevant players in the movement.

Just a few weeks ago, the social network repeatedly deleted posts and suspended the account of a Norwegian newspaper editor after he published a Pulitzer Prize - winning photo of a young Vietnamese girl running away from her bombed village in 1972, as part of a series on compelling war photography.

Many Americans are obviously interested in the trial, as the bombing was one of the worst terrorists attacks in US history.

But when it came to his start - up venture, as he told Crain's New York Business in 1989, he knew «as much about juice as about making an atom bomb.»

Unless your finances are as sturdy as a bomb shelter and you have an emergency plan in place, one big disaster can topple everything you've built.