Sentences with phrase «by shrapnel»

Karina Dorado's trachea was punctured by shrapnel from an inflator in an otherwise minor crash in Las Vegas on March 3.

In the video, Wayans is seen getting struck in the back of his head by shrapnel.

Proximity Mines can explode prematurely if the Kongs head into them as they flash, or if they are hit by the shrapnel of another mine, sometimes creating a chain explosion between several mines.

The upper left quadrant of his head was missing, pending a new skull plate, and the remainder was dappled with tufts of dark hair and notches left by shrapnel.

«It's an Afghan girl wounded by shrapnel,» she says, deciphering the string of acronyms in JChat.

The study involved 144 Vietnam veterans injured by shrapnel or bullets that penetrated the skull, damaging distinct brain tissues while leaving neighboring tissues intact.

His own father lost half of his leg when it was hit by shrapnel in 1945 in Okinawa.

Gibson was wounded by shrapnel during that tour.

The trial of the man charged with detonating a bomb in Chelsea last year began in Federal District Court in Manhattan with video replays of the blast, emotional testimony from people wounded by shrapnel and an outburst by the defendant that led to his ejection from the courtroom.

Wounded by shrapnel, he led several dozen comrades behind enemy lines.

He fought in the Battle of the Bulge, where he was wounded by shrapnel.

He spoke very softly, recounting how he was in a foxhole with a buddy who had just been hit by shrapnel.

Still, they've all seen worse every day at Reed or at Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, Texas: faces speckled by shrapnel or covered with scars that look like melted wax, men wheeling through the halls missing two or three limbs.

That I hope I don't get shot; that I don't get hit by shrapnel.

«You had other chains — Giant Tiger, Winners, The Bay — all of whom were affected by the shrapnel coming from Walmart and Target.

Heart condition: With his on - again, off - again heart condition — caused by the shrapnel that was originally lodged there — Stark would probably have been wise to live in close proximity to some renowned cardiology centres.

Not exact matches

According to the official account, Tamerlan died after a shootout with cops, riddled with bullets and shrapnel before being run over by his brother who was fleeing the scene in an SUV.

The ingenious XStat device from RevMedX, which is designed to stop bleeding from a gunshot or shrapnel wound in under 20 seconds, has just been approved by the FDA.

As he reached the apex of the hillside, he was met by machine - gun fire and heavy shrapnel.

The BUK missile is also a proximity detonated weapon that fills the target with shrapnel, that could plausibly be mistaken for bullet holes by non-experts.

One man was injured by flying shrapnel a quarter mile away, authorities said.

«I was surrounded by broken men, men who came home from a war filled with shrapnels and guilt, men who were misled into a losing ideology,» said Schwarzenegger, who was born two years after the war ended.

Howe described Aiello as getting «hit by a lot of shrapnel» at the time.

Shrapnel disbursed by the bombs included pieces of metal, nails and ball bearings.

The favoured explanation has been that the large water droplets produced by clouds collide with one another to release watery shrapnel that produces the abundant smaller droplets seen at ground level.

The dinosaurs» fate may have been sealed by a piece of shrapnel from a cosmic collision that occurred long before the asteroid smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years ago.

And with the probe barreling in at nearly 10 miles per second — one of the highest speeds ever achieved by a spacecraft — any encounter with a speck of shrapnel could spell disaster.

Bullet casings and shrapnel are probably not the most requested gifts by children whose parents travel for a living, but then most children don't have parents like Anna Neistat and Ole Solvang.

12 CIRCLE OF TREASON by Anna Waterhouse, Joe Shrapnel Based on the book «Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and The Men He Betrayed» written by Sandra Grimes & Jeanne Vertefeuille.

We face shadowy soldiers storming out the cover of jungle with the darkness split by the flare of gunfire and grenades, endure the bombs raining on American camps and the tropical rains that bring sickness and rot and watch the horrors of jungle warfare and the crushing pressure of constant combat that wears men down as sure as gunfire and shrapnel.

Directed by: Ridley Scott Written by: David H. Franzoni, William Nicholson, John Logan Starring: Russell Crowe, Djimon Hounsou, Richard Harris, Connie Nielsen, Derek Jacobi, Joaquin Phoenix, Oliver Reed, David Schofield, John Shrapnel, Tomas Arana, Ralph Moeller, Spencer Treat Clark, David Hemmings, Chris Kell Produced by: David H. Franzoni, Branko Lustig Original Music by: Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt, Lisa Gerrard Cinematography by: John Mathieson

Prepare for the onslaught by building a tower filled with a variety of magical technology capable of reducing that army to shrapnel.

Furthermore, I apologize to all the crew and cast for any negative attention Lethal Weapon is receiving because of these incidents,» he said in a statement after an actor felt unsafe on the set after being hit by a piece of shrapnel.

It will be produced by Bruce Kavanaugh - Jones, Kate Garwood and Stephen Hopkins and written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced today that it will stop using non-desiccated ammonium nitrate Takata inflators — the kind linked to 10 U.S. deaths from shrapnel in an airbag deployment — starting next week in the U.S. and by mid-September worldwide.

To date, four deaths have been associated with (if not attributed to) shrapnel from airbags manufactured by the same company which sells airbags to nearly every automaker.

The story of airbags exploding and killing people with shrapnel was broken by the New York Times in November of 2014, though later reports would reveal that Takata knew of the problem much earlier.

We saw a demo of him, up on that E3 stage, and where before people had seen Uncharted as a smaller addition to the PS3 exclusives line - up, with that showcase, with Drake leaping around, his handsome adventurer's face scorched by the sun, cut with shrapnel, we saw Drake transform into this new action hero, the saviour of the PS3.

Buoyed by the popularity of the killcam they've gone and added even more killcams for some stealth takedowns so that you can watch a knife enter a brain and for other things like your explosive traps blowing people up, resulting in a wonderful moment of slow - mow glory where shrapnel turns them into pulp.

There is an amount of masochistic fun to be had in Motorstorm by destroying your car, pausing the game, and spinning the camera around, examining each little bit of smouldering shrapnel as it goes flying into the mud.

The scuzzy arena where remote - controlled robo - gladiators attempt to batter seven bells out of each other looks relatively unchanged but the audience are closer than ever to the action, protected from flying shrapnel by a bulletproof transparent polycarbonate enclosure.

By a nearby shrapnel or if one of his teammates attack you defensively.

I think you asked me if Betts had got a reply and I said I didn't think so but there was so much shrapnel flying around I was distracted by it.

Having only just now discovered your meaning of the word (and still bemused as to how it is played or its purpose) I still don't understand why my phrase «shrapnel flying» means that I apparently - without even knowing its meaning - had somehow understood the rules of your Climateball game by employing the phrase.

The airbags, made by Japan - based Takata Corp., can rupture or explode with excessive force and shoot metal shrapnel into the faces and necks of vehicle occupants.

These pieces act like shrapnel, cutting and piercing the user or anyone close by.

When the inflator ruptures passengers are at risk of being injured by the explosion and metal shrapnel.

The term shrapnel, fragmentation thrown out by an exploding munition or bomb, comes to us by way of Henry Shrapnel, a British officer who invented the first anti-personnel round — an explosive hollow cannon ball filled with lead shot — shrapnel, fragmentation thrown out by an exploding munition or bomb, comes to us by way of Henry Shrapnel, a British officer who invented the first anti-personnel round — an explosive hollow cannon ball filled with lead shot — Shrapnel, a British officer who invented the first anti-personnel round — an explosive hollow cannon ball filled with lead shot — in 1784.

She was struck in the toe and upper arm by flying pieces of shrapnel.

Nutrition expert and blogger Bill Shrapnel wrote about the news that Professor Jennie Brand - Miller from the University of Sydney and Dr Alan Barclay, Chief Scientific Officer at the Glycaemic Index Foundation and Head of Research at the Australian Diabetes Council have been cleared by the University of Sydney of research misconduct allegations.