Sentences with phrase «use as a fire»

When it has reached the end of its life compost or use as a fire starter for camping or a wood stove.

They were so damaged I had to use them as fire wood.

The transfer carried a stipulation that the building must be used as a fire department for at least 10 years.

Halons, used as fire extinguishers, have been banned since 1 January.

Scientists have long been interested in this lightweight, yet strong material for a range of applications, manufacturing substances that imitate nacre for use as fire retardants, gas barriers and conductors.

The Boy Scouts used it as a fire truck.

Research has shown that cats diagnosed with hyperthryoidism have high levels of chemicals that are known to be used as fire - retardants in carpets and fabrics.

You can actually climb three karri trees, which have such great views over the area that they were originally used as fire lookouts.

Sequoia exteriors were also used as fire backstop / shelters.

Not exact matches

The operation to liberate the rest of the city is continuing slowly, as Iraqi forces have to deal with ISIS car bombs, sniper fire, and use of heavy weaponry.

Taiwan's defense ministry accused China of using «cheap verbal intimidation and saber rattling» to threaten them as China began a massive live - fire military drill in the Taiwan Strait, stoking tensions in the area.

As they used to say: «No one ever got fired for buying IBM.»

Regardless, Laliberté has come a long way from his origins as a busker: He used to earn money juggling, fire eating and playing accordion on the streets of Quebec.

Whether or not their homes were among the 2,400 buildings that have burned, residents who had been laid off or whose business was slow prior to the fire are likely to use the evacuation as their cue to start fresh somewhere else, says Joseph Doucet, dean of the University of Alberta School of Business.

I asked many of these CEOs: did you just use that as an excuse to fire people, and they would wink and say, «let's just leave it at that.»

The Maddox fired at nothing, but the incident was used as a justification to further escalate the conflict in Vietnam.

JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU) and Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) use it as a kind of mailing list; presidential candidates use it to contact supporters; the Los Angeles fire department uses it as a de facto emergency broadcast system.

The shooter, whom police have identified as 64 - year - old Stephen Paddock, opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, using the elevated vantage point to fire into the crowds across the Las Vegas Strip at the Route 91 Harvest festival.

Putin claimed that while the Syrian regime was «fully abiding» by the cease - fire, rebel groups (some of which the US backs) were using it merely as an opportunity to regroup, and he accused Washington of being more concerned with retaining its military capacity in the area than with trying to weed out the extremist rebel groups from the more «moderate» ones.

A Virginia - based defense firm known as Artis, developer of the Iron Curtain APS system, uses two independent sensors, radar and optical, along with high - speed computing and counter munitions to detect and intercept approaching fire, according to multiple reports.

A brigade's worth of tanks used Trophy to destroy approaching enemy fire such as RPGs in a high - clutter urban environment, he added.

The idea is to arm armored combat vehicles and tactical wheeled vehicles with additional protective technology to secure platforms and soldiers from enemy fire; vehicles slated for use of APS systems are infantry fighting vehicles such as Bradleys along with Stykers, Abrams tanks and even tactical vehicles such as transport trucks and the emerging Humvee replacement, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle.

With your website as a platform, you can use your influence and position to advocate for worthy causes — a sure - fire way to endear yourself to your local community and create an authentic, unforgettable brand story.

Called Active Protection Systems, or APS, the technology uses sensors and radar, computer processing, fire control technology and interceptors to find, target and knock down or intercept incoming enemy fire such as RPGs and Anti-Tank Guided Missiles, or ATGMs.

As such, Carrier can now use that $ 7 million to upgrade the plant, allowing it to fire all but a handful of those workers that Mr. Trump claimed he «saved.»

President Donald Trump set off a firestorm last Friday when he urged NFL owners to fire players who used the national anthem as an opportunity for protest.

Lencioni implores business owners to use their values as hiring, promoting and firing criteria: «Your goal should be that 100 percent of your people embody the one or two values that make your company truly special.»

the preservation among the Jews of «the «haggling» habit which most of the Western world has outgrown,» «the use of shoddy or poor materials,» the fact that «Jews are considered by certain leading insurance companies as a poor fire risk,» etc..

As we age, that part of our frontal lobe fires less surely, impeded by another part of the brain responsible for what scientists call the «default mode,» which we use to daydream.

«It can be a washing line, it can help you fix your hammock if the string breaks, it can be a belt «round your trousers — or your pants as you'd say — it can be laces, it can hold something while you hang it over the fire, all different uses.»

«We will try to basically realize zero coal use in six major districts and in Beijing's southern plain areas this year,» major Cai Qi was quoted as saying, adding that Beijing would also eliminate small coal - fired boilers.

Not all of those retailers are employing the same social media strategy that RadioShack is using as it announced a fire sale.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

Finally, I think with Tesla firing up its Nevada - based Gigafactory, investors would be prudent to keep their eyes on aluminum, cobalt, nickel and especially copper, as electric vehicles use around three times as much of the red metal as conventional vehicles.

The Boring Company later added fuel to the fire by saying its tunnels would be used for Hyperloops as well as Musk's underground highways.

Wake up early despite claims that you may not be a morning person, and use your passion as fuel to get you firing on all cylinders.

Among other things, it has been criticized as a scam — based on economic assumptions that are described as «laughable» — and has come under fire from the U.S. Senate for the ease with which drug dealers and other subversive elements can make use of it.

These forward - looking companies recognize that using natural gas, efficiency, and renewable energy are more profitable than retrofitting coal - fired plants — which are seen as being obsolete, inefficient, and highly polluting.

Crooks who use accounting fraud — such as the fraud that led to the firing of Maurice Greenberg at A.I.G. and his counterparts at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other companies engaging in Enron - type accounting.

Many observers believed Trump might use the declassified memo as justification to fire his deputy attorney general — who also happens to be Mueller's boss.

Experts say it could also be used as a pretext for Trump to clean house at the FBI — in particular by firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the Mueller investigation.

«As the Alberta Electricity System Operator has noted, coal - fired power with carbon capture and storage is a far more expensive option to reduce carbon pollution compared to using natural gas, wind, solar and hydro power.

Aberdeen's Wolf said Chinese authorities could make life difficult for American companies operating on its turf by using selective enforcement of regulations, such as fire codes and food safety, as a means to shutter parts of their operations.

Depending on what it says, Trump could argue that it provides evidence of deep bias against him at the FBI and use it as a pretext to fire top Justice Department officials he perceives as insufficiently loyal, like Rosenstein.

From his perch on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, the gunman, who was identified by the police as Stephen Paddock, used rapid - fire weapons to shoot at concertgoers at a music festival.

In this article we'll use forest fire management policy as an analogy to discuss whether market forces should be allowed to burst speculative bubbles, «clean the forest floor,» and quickly return the market to a natural state, or if governments and central banks should try to «put fires out» in an effort to slowly deflate speculative bubbles which, if allowed to burst, might harm the broader economy.

A fun thing to do is to search the presentation for the word «leaned,» which Valeant uses as a transitive verb meaning «fired a bunch of people in.»

-LSB-...] For example, I use LendingTree as a way to cross-check the lowest mortgage rates in order to have fire power to argue for a lower mortgage rate with my existing bricks and mortar bank.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

Islamic State has been using suicide bombers, human shields, road mines and oil fires as well as conventional artillery to defend Iraq's second city, which still has more than a million people trapped inside.