Sentences with phrase «by a bomb dropped»

This is nearly half of the energy released by the bomb dropped on Nagasaki (20 kilotons) and 2/3 of Hiroshima's (15 kilotons) power.

The smoke from vast fires started by bombs dropped on cities and industrial areas would envelop the planet and absorb so much sunlight that the earth's surface would get cold, dark and dry, killing plants worldwide and eliminating our food supply.

Not exact matches

ISIS militants in Afghanistan have apparently been undeterred by the «Mother of All Bombs» that the US dropped on them in April.

Now, the network dropped another bomb on business owners by announcing that it's going to focus on friends» posts instead of pages» posts which will further suppress organic reach of the latter.

U.S. military fighter - attack jets, bombers and drones have dropped more than 67,000 bombs since the 2014 start of Operation Inherent Resolve, the Defense Department's mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, according to information provided by Air Forces Central Command.

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.

For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

By the end of its deployment, its air wing had dropped over 1,118 bombs on ISIS target, passing a previous record set by USS Theodore Roosevelt's air wing earlier that yeaBy the end of its deployment, its air wing had dropped over 1,118 bombs on ISIS target, passing a previous record set by USS Theodore Roosevelt's air wing earlier that yeaby USS Theodore Roosevelt's air wing earlier that year.

The Tornados, supported by a Voyager tanker and a Reaper drone, dropped their Paveway IV guided bombs against six targets on an oilfield at Omar, «one of the ISIS's largest and most important oilfields,» according to the MoD.

After his bonus falls short, but before things turn truly rotten, Yount compares his position to «being in some shithole in Iraq or somewhere, where some Yank pilot has dropped a bomb on you by mistake.

A pro-opposition group called the Ghouta Media Center said the attack was carried out by a helicopter, which dropped a barrel bomb containing sarin gas, the BBC reported.

At Umami Burger, we're all about amplifying your taste buds by dropping some serious umami flavor bombs into our food.

«The report would be a bombshell, except that so many bombs have already dropped, it's hard to know how it will be received by employees and the public,» said one person familiar with the report.

The dropping of the atomic bomb, however, and the killing of birdlife by DDT, documented by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, introduced a new problem: the presence of totally unpredicted (and probably unpredictable) harmful effects on the environment and on human life stemming from actions taken specifically to produce certain benefits.

The autonomous, decent, and efficient American described by Erikson has killed cold - bloodedly whether in fighting Indians, dropping the Atomic bomb on Japanese, or Organizing search and destroy missions against the Viet Cong.

This shows just how often this phrase has been typed in, most likely by people who are looking for yet another scripture bomb to drop.

In contrast to the Franck report, the decision to drop the bomb on civilian populations was governed mainly by immediate military considerations.

I don't want to drop a human psychology bomb on you, but all humans are governed by reward and punishment to a certain extent.

Many of us humans like to dress up that law in a long beard blue eyed robe wearing guy who talks of only loving all as he loves himnself or maybe some Sumo Wrestling look alike cat with an iconic beer gut that talks of enlightenment thus giving in to the power of positive thought and stay clear from the negative thinking that some how compels mankind to drop bombs or take by force what never was his in the first place from those who were willing to SHARE!!!! I tell those show me your GOD because I can always show you mine.

Two days after dropping televised F bombs all over Nevada's winning locker room, Eric Musselman upped the ante by losing his shirt.

In a day where cliches and coach - speak rule the day, Lynch first went «beast mode on FCC regulations» by dropping an s - bomb, then showed genuine emotion, talked about his feelings toward the media («I ain't never seen no talking win me nothing; been like that since I was little; was raised like that»), bragged about his team («they going to have to stop all of us.

Neymar also said he should be operational again by May 17, but the El Pais reported also said the player «dropped a bomb» on PSG chairman and CEO Nasser Al - Khelaifi and sporting director Antero Henrique during their recent visit to South America to check on the recuperating Brazil international by refusing to return to Paris early when requested.

By way of further comparison, the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 was 20 kilotons in yield.

He attacked «the foul and despicable crimes committed by Isil and by the Assad government, including barrel bombs being dropped on civilian targets», but without mentioning Assad's backer, the supplier of those barrel bombs: Vladimir Putin.

Therefore, less than 1/10 of the energy released by the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Japan) by the US in 1945.

We have open - source eyewitness reports of the attack coming from barrel bombs dropped by helicopters, which is not a tactic opposition groups have used but does correlate precisely with how the Syrian regime conducted previous actions of this sort.

Douglas Carswell, the Conservative MP for Clacton, has dropped a bomb by announcing his defection to UKIP, and will fight a by - election to give his constituents the chance to pass judgement on the decision...

Meanwhile, back on planet earth, unemployment rose by 80,000 in three months and the IFS warned that living standards were dropping like one of those animated bombs in the Road Runner cartoon.

Cluster bombs, which can either be dropped by planes or launched as artillery, are scattered over a large area but frequently fail to detonate, resulting in a serious hazard for civilians once conflicts have resolved.

In a statement signed by Israel Ogbonnaya and Chetachi Ikpe, Abia state chairman and the State secretary of the council, respectively, Ohaneze youths said, «we also call on the Niger Delta Avengers to sheathe their sword and drop threat to bomb and attack Abia state and other Niger Delta states.

We've learned that the Senator has no hesitation to threaten the livelihoods of members of our group, to attempt to convince the NYPD to stop our lawful free speech activities, and freely mimics Trump's crudeness by dropping an «F - bomb» on one member of our group who asked him politely to stop empowering pro-Trump Republicans in Albany.

Dropping an unexpected political bomb on the Hudson Valley, U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, who won re-election last November by about 30

Dropping an unexpected political bomb on the Hudson Valley, U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, who won re-election last November by about 30 percentage points, announced Tuesday, Jan. 6 that he would not run for re-election in 2016.

Orion: Set in motion shortly after DARPA was created, Project Orion aimed to drive an interplanetary spacecraft by periodically dropping nuclear bombs out of its rear end.

The 2006 explosion was relatively small, releasing energy equivalent to about 1,000 tons of TNT — a fraction of the 15 - kiloton bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

Bombs dropped by the Saudi - led coalition have wreaked the most damage, Al - Sayani said.

Bombs dropped by a Saudi - led coalition have damaged the ancient Marib Dam, a museum in Dhamar, and medieval castles in Aden and Sana'a.

In the short term, Western governments are likely to save most lives by supplying the antidotes and educational materials that people desperately need — either by persuading Assad to open supply routes, or by dropping medical parcels and leaflets rather than bombs.

Neither of us agrees just who dropped the bomb, but I was at church getting into my choir robe, and by the time we started our processional hymn we were engaged.

And I would still stand by it, if only he didn't refuse to run it because I didn't drop the «F» bomb or seek to offend the reading audience (I am assuming).

Now a wealthy high - tech businessman, the POW camp guard was saved by Logan's immortal being during the moment the atomic bomb was dropped on the city.

TV: SIXTIESSOMETHING By Tom Carson Carson tunes in, turns off, and drops the bomb on two Sixties shows, China Beach and The Wonder Years

I was expecting the game to come to a crawl but when the frame rate does drop, it's usually when something huge is happening like a hundred zombies being blown to bits by a super bomb or when you now down tons of them in a vehicles.

Rather, it's a tale of survival; of a persevering young housewife, Suzu (voiced by Rena Nounen), who comes of age years before the bomb drops.

She was also so relaxed that she dropped an f - bomb right at the end of her monologue by complete accident and was quick enough to make a joke about it in her embarrassment afterwards.

Epic in scale, gorgeous, and beautifully acted, The Man in the High Castle is set nearly two decades after Nazi Germany defeats America by dropping an atom bomb on Washington.

Not only do we have some revealing images from the set of Ridley Scott's Alien Covenant, but a massive casting bomb was just dropped over by our friends at AvP Galaxy.

A mission to reignite the giant life source has mysteriously failed and it is now up to a second ship, Icarus II, to get the job done and save the planet by dropping a giant bomb on the surface of the sun.

That the serious threat of a bomb being dropped on Los Perdidos could be countered by a guy in a kid's superhero outfit wielding a traffic cone is bizarre enough, but DR3 has one of the most tonally inconsistent elements I've ever seen in videogames.

Strom recalls a scrapbook her father made for her about successful women, and a disturbing article he clipped from the New Yorker about «Hiroshima Maidens,» young Japanese women disfigured by radiation from the nuclear bombs the United States had dropped there.