Sentences with phrase «catching fire»

Remember seeing sodium or potassium catching fire and exploding in chemistry lessons?

Those devices are low in power, wear out quickly, and run the risk of catching fire or exploding.

Boeing has since updated its software, and modern systems generally have the problem under control — but a technology that requires tight oversight to avoid catching fire is hardly ideal.

Draining the land plus «slash and burn» techniques to clear areas for agriculture are the main reasons that tropical peatlands are catching fire, says Alexander Cobb, an environmental scientist at the Singapore - MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.

That line of attack doesn't seem to be catching fire with the Conservative Party, which appears poised to follow the GOP's lead and endorse Corwin in the race for Lee's seat.

Sweep tracks more often and ask the NYPD to enforce littering laws to prevent debris from catching fire (which caused the track fire in Harlem a couple weeks ago).

«It was like the air catching fire,» he says.

«With a little less than four months to go in the Democratic Primary to go, our campaign is catching fire at the right time,» campaign spokesman

«Catching fire is difficult when you start off not being a Republican,» said John Graziano, Albany County Republican chairman and one of Mr. Levy's earliest backers.

Chris Christie's long - shot presidential campaign got a lift on Saturday night with the endorsement of The New Hampshire Union Leader, an influential paper in the state where the New Jersey governor has camped out in the hopes of catching fire.

«Republicans across New York are talking, and Carl's campaign is catching fire with many of my colleagues in Party leadership,» Padgett said in a statement released by the Paladino campaign.

Her blog, Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project, has been catching fire in recent weeks as she chokes down the bad stuff — lasagna and bitter - tasting mystery veggies — and surprises herself by enjoying meals like chili and mac and cheese.

When exposed to flame, it resists catching fire, where artificial fibers may melt or burn.

Since this an electrical machine, there is also the possibility of it catching fire and so the auto shut - off is vital.

Movies playing this weekend include Gravity, About Time, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

No one smokes in our home so we need not be overly worried about catching fire in our sleep (and our smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms, even our fire extinguishers were checked in our home maintenance efforts).

So with only three months remaining on the schedule, and a dog fight for third and fourth places ahead of them, what's the wiser gamble: Schick catching fire or Dzeko out performing his underlying stats?

The Mustangs are always a scoring run away from victory with sharpshooting senior guards Sanam Jhajj and Leondre Lintz capable of catching fire from beyond the arc.

Washington is another club catching fire.

Does Georgia get bonus points for catching fire late?

Iwata tied a major championship record by shooting a 63 in the second round, catching fire on the back nine with five birdies and one eagle.

They have a lot of guys that are streaky and capable of catching fire, but for the most part they've been pretty atrocious in their half court sets.

This makes it two weeks in a row that the Cliq / 1871 squad has earned a W and they are catching fire at the perfect time!

The moisture in the meat / veggie / fruit will keep the rest of the wooden skewers from catching fire, but the handles can easily blacken and possibly burn.

I thought the rosemary was catching fire, but in fact it was all my glass lids.

To avoid catching fire, she recommends passing the herbs over a medium heat just until wisps of smoke start appearing, then throwing them in the sink and dousing with water.

I can't wait to watch Catching Fire.

And though the article doesn't necessarily call out the branded products these players are eating, the kinds of products they are reaching for is a direct illustration of nutrition trends catching fire across the food industry.

Suzanne Collins» trilogy was the first foray into fiction I enjoyed after a year of research and writing for «A Year of Biblical Womanhood», so I surrendered myself totally to the unfolding stories and, like so many others, lost a lot of sleep as I worked my way through The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and The Mockingjay.

There's no question why short - term business loans are catching fire: They're the ultimate financial win - win for small and medium - sized businesses.

Since the first movie got all of the exposition out of the way, «Catching Fire» gets to focus on world building.

Some people complain that «Catching Fire» took too long to get to the actual games, but they spent that time wisely.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

#OptOutside is the name of the sticky social game and it's catching fire fast on Twitter and Facebook, keeping pace with a steady gush of media coverage surrounding the company's «shocking» jab at over-the-top Black Friday consumerism.

The electronics giant said Tuesday it halted production of the device after multiple reports of both original and replacement Note 7s overheating and catching fire.

In addition to the release date, we also learned that stars such as Bryce Dallace Howard (from «Jurassic World»), Mackenzie Davis («Halt and Catch Fire»), Jerome Flynn («Game of Thrones»), and Michael Kelly («House of Cards») will be among the third season's cast.

The buildings loaded with dynamite caught fire themselves and exacerbated the inferno.

Unfortunately, it also quite literally catches fire.

Down in New Zealand, the hair of the country's central bank governor appears to have caught fire.

At least two people were killed and 130 injured when an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 jet crashed and caught fire as it landed short of the runway.

The Chapman's Ice Cream factory in Markdale, Ont., caught fire on a sunny morning last September, lit by a spark from a welder's torch.

A little over a year later, the Tropicale's engine room caught fire, leaving the ship in the path of Tropical Storm Harvey.

Unless the economy catches fire (which Trump says it will), his plan will reduce federal tax revenues by $ 6.2 billion over 10 years, the Tax Policy Center says.

Examining the influence of unconscious bias is by nature a self - reflective activity - something that has only recently caught fire in boardroom efforts to address disparities, but which has been alive and well in the hearts of accelerators, especially those focused on women entrepreneurs.

At its first launch, in 2006, the engine caught fire upon liftoff.

Bernie Sanders, who lost by a big margin in the New York primary on Tuesday, has previously caught fire in Silicon Valley.

He and his daughter Jennen had been in the elevator in the two - storey home when it stalled between floors — and then caught fire.

The engine of a SkyWest passenger jet caught fire moments after the aircraft landed at Denver International Airport on Sunday, but all 63 people aboard exited the plane safely, an airline spokeswoman said.

But the Fire phone didn't catch fire with consumers.

But after Magic caught fire out of nowhere, Bettir decided the service would be a better business, and changed courses partway through the Y Combinator startup program.