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1. When the gulls had gone flapping out over the water she said, "We need you to help us prevent this, and we can save ourselves if we impact a big old daedelus-drive starship on that asteroid at full drive and detonate the reactor
2. “The crazy black cannot detonate those bombs without the codes or the keys
3. Just enough to detonate the building in isolation
4. swallow that further investigation was impossible, cause the British army decided to detonate caves in
5. “Without a timer, how will you detonate it?” I asked
6. The time to detonate would come
7. "Four kilos of plastique will be floated under the Restaurant My Canh set to detonate at 35 minutes after the hour of nine
8. The plastique was due to detonate in seven minutes
9. "I won’t let any of the explosions detonate within our shield radius," said Miles boldly, perhaps more to himself than anyone else
10. They don't have enough weapons left to simply detonate them and wipe out the ship
11. We would tell them when to detonate most
12. They would detonate the vehicles on our command, as well as our passage in
13. In fact, however, Jacob had rigged the switches to detonate hidden explosives which would completely destroy the facility and all those in it
14. A new strategy is brewing: Detonate the mines by remote wires when the robots get close enough
15. After giving a detailed account of the morning happenings which much pleased his boss, he finally asked the crucial question…’…when shall I detonate ?…’
16. "Look, can't we detonate the explosives another way?" cried Travis
17. Unfortunately, the odd missile didn’t detonate in mid-space, as was hoped
18. The control suites had been rigged with explosives which the retreating operator would detonate as they left sealing off the route they had just used to escape
19. “Won’t that detonate the reactor?”
20. She continued to fight through a slug fest that lasted several hours until she finally blew a hole in the pirate’s reactor cooling panels that was big enough to cause the reactor to overheat and detonate
21. The pirate missile failed to detonate, but the hull breach was enough to kill the solo pilot who was not in the shell at that time
22. They are also programmed to not detonate if they detect that one of their colleagues has accomplished its mission
23. This would have been a smart move were it not for the fact that the P I ships had anticipated it, but what even they did not anticipate was that the 21’s still jockeying for position would fly into the path of these missiles and cause the warheads to detonate prematurely
24. One pilot, apparently recognizing that he was as good as dead, rammed his ship into the drive unit on Kim’s ship causing it to detonate destroying the ship
25. they would detonate in a final act of defiance
26. ‘’Are you going to detonate your aircraft bombs now, General?’’ Asked Marguerite, who was taking pictures of the North Koreans through her zoom lens-equipped still camera
27. ‘’I will instead take a picture of you as you detonate those bombs, General
28. Maybe they were used to seeing everyday objects detonate, I sure wasn’t
29. There was no guarantee that the bomb would detonate
30. Ammar regretted that he would not be able to detonate the bomb in the statue from within the church, for he longed to die as a martyr for the faith
31. You need to take your team, and take out the drivers of the truck, without letting them detonate the C4 inside
32. We believe he will detonate that C4 within two to four minutes anyway, so you have no time at all
33. It seems that Grobut has hidden the Eryx and rigged it with a timer-activated Tungan device which he threatens to detonate if we don't meet his demands
34. The missile is not meant to detonate; merely to be swallowed up by the black hole and speed up the process of reaching a critical mass
35. Plant your explosive and detonate as soon as you’re clear
36. that if we tried to escape they would detonate a bomb they had
37. pagers to detonate bombs all the time
38. other side of the world and stil detonate a bomb
39. the room the bomb will detonate early
40. his back porch and how he could detonate fireworks via
41. 32 hours left before the bomb would detonate on its own
42. “They anticipated the response and used phaser to detonate the torpedoes
43. It was an automated system, firing missiles designed to intercept and early detonate torpedoes
44. about to detonate it’ argument
45. The system began firing at every torpedoe in range, causing them to detonate prematurely
46. detonate just from the all the energy being released, for it wasn’t just the enemy’s torpedoes, but torpedoes from the New Constitution as well, as they were all seen by the Path Finder’s systems as non-Path Finder torpedoes
47. “It will only cause it to detonate early
48. They had just cleared the asteroid field when the missiles started to detonate
49. If you don't hear from me again in twenty minutes, detonate
50. Enough to detonate any black powder that’s not currently under the stabilizing effect of tasrac
1. Tom was reminded of the nuclear bombs detonated by the
2. Mage-fire detonated in the sky as the Graelic struck home, its reddened tip catching the demon directly on the ever shifting appendage that most closely resembled a head
3. No-one seems to know how it got through the security system, but a few days before launch the device detonated and the Uranian was totally destroyed, all hands lost
4. The device, whatever it had been, seemed to have detonated quite near his chest
5. Before he reached it there was an almighty, ear-popping bang as the window detonated into small fragments, all sucked immediately out into the void
6. Hans touched his belt, and a few seconds later, an enormous explosion detonated inside the bubble, blasting away all of the demons and sending the Arrows’ home into a blazing inferno
7. As far as we can tell, it was not remote detonated, so it must have had some way of detecting the Presidential limousine, triggering its partner devices moments before it detonated itself
8. I looked at my watch and saw that it had just gone 7:20hrs then a loud sound came to our ears from far away and the ground beneath us trembled as though in an earthquake this was a mine at Hawthorn Ridge that had been detonated
9. We all took cover and there was a series of muffled explosions as they detonated and grey white dust spewed up and out of the entrance
10. The Rhodesian war started with isolated attacks on white farms and the planting of landmines to disrupt the Security Forces and whoever else detonated it
11. ‘Some degree of power was restored to the Hollywood when the atom bomb detonated
12. It glowed along its lethal path, struck the forcefield and detonated
13. Four days after “Little Boy” was detonated over Hiroshima, and two days after “Fat Man” was used on Nagasaki, the Japanese government announced it was ready to accept terms
14. It was detonated when the victim turned on his audio recorder,” I said
15. “Target was a miss but they all detonated on the other side of the UFO08
16. That was how I met John Harvey Adamson, a low life petty criminal, who crossed the line into the underworld’s big time when he detonated the remote controlled car bomb in the Del Webb parking garage which killed Don Bolles, the Arizona Republic investigative reporter who had pissed off the local mob by investigating “tombstoning” (sale of worthless desert properties) to Yankees and ignorant, wealthy locals
17. ” The week before we arrived in Amman, terrorists had detonated bombs in five local hotels killing scores including a wedding party
18. The homemade cast iron grenade fragmented into thirteen pieces as the low order explosive detonated
19. Each sack contained four kilograms, about eight pounds, of explosive that could be detonated by a six-inch cord with a small wooden ball at the exposed end
20. Norman Junior stood with a remote control in hand and, with tears streaming down his face, pressed the button and detonated the explosives
21. This explosive charge is not connected to the charge in the submarine or in the diving-bells…that charge will be detonated when the Chinese make the final payment!’
22. which was obviously rigged to be remotely detonated!
23. Rory was not aware that there were actually two electronic boxes which would be detonated by one remote…
24. The area was now primed for the explosion – all of the packages could be detonated by the use of one remote – carried by Hu Lyang only!
25. Armed only with their lasers, having expended the last of their missiles on the battleship, they pummeled the troop ship with all twelve of their lasers until they finally detonated the reactor
26. “But it was the third volley that detonated the reactor
27. The first detonated against the foreign P I ship’s propulsion system clearing a hole for the second
28. The second missile followed the first and detonated behind the propulsion system and tore it away
29. The reactor detonated and the ship disintegrated into a rapidly expanding cloud of gas and debris
30. It moved to within a few kilometers of the battleship and the nuclear warhead detonated
31. In the barrage, one of the missiles penetrated the ship’s magazine and detonated the ship’s munitions
32. Looking through his binoculars, he counts down with the fingers on his raised left hand until the vehicle is at the precise spot, whereupon he completes a clenched fist and the explosives are detonated
33. Even with the few missiles she had left, her lasers and the freighter’s lasers, four of the drones got through and detonated the cargo ship’s reactor
34. In spite of all the publicity claiming the Disruptor missiles’ immunity to lasers, some of the Disruptor missiles were detonated by the lasers, but the majority of them maintained their trajectory and headed straight for the armored shell of the battleship’s wall of armor
35. The space between the ships lit up as the missiles and counter missiles detonated in a frenzy of mutual destruction
36. ‘They can’t suspect us of having detonated the bomb, we don’t have the capability
37. The Disruptor arched perfectly into the center of the power plant and detonated
38. For most other ships, a collision of such force would have destroyed both ships and the reactors would have detonated
39. “Who will prevent them from placing a nuclear warhead inside a container to be shipped here and detonated by remote command?”
40. The cargo ship’s lasers detonated the first missile, but the second tracked neatly into the center of the cargo ship’s propulsion unit and detonated
41. It detonated in a spectacular display of colors
42. She sliced them open with her lasers and they detonated
43. The enemy ships detonated within seconds of each other
44. Eight separate firing positions and thirty two missiles later, two positions and four missiles shy of the end of the plan Tracker and Huntress had developed, the battleship’s munitions magazine, having been laid open in one of the first volleys, took a missile straight in and detonated breaking the battleship into a dozen pieces spinning out of control leaking air and spewing debris as they spun
45. Their reactors detonated and the sky was empty except for two PI ships and four scared teens
46. When the 180’s detonated, the 210 pilot realized his mistake
47. One week later, about half way there, the drive unit detonated
48. Had it detonated near the station, it would have destroyed the station and killed everyone on it
49. Now, the planet was silent and cold, enveloped by the dark clouds of radioactive dust thrown in the upper atmosphere by the thousands of nuclear warheads detonated on that faithful month of September of the year 2052
50. The four of them disappeared barely a half second before the first bomb detonated inside the castle’s walls
1. 5 seconds until the bomb detonates
2. However, a Disruptor only works if the electronics is operating at the time the missile detonates
3. You scream as her abdomen detonates in a torrent of flies
4. But when a child tries to capture one of these delicate figures, the liquid explosive inside detonates, instantly severing their hands
5. ” I toss the dual reminder that he wasn’t there to save me the night the Unseelie Princes captured me in the church, and that it’s my bookstore, without inflection, still it detonates in the room
6. A second shell screeches overhead, and Marie-Laure shrieks, and the chandelier above her head chimes as the shell detonates somewhere deeper in the city
7. A shell detonates somewhere aboveground
8. A shell detonates not far away, and the echoes of the blast shunt down between the wrecked houses, and the soldier in the street claps a hand over his helmet
9. But the shell detonates somewhere and the house creaks and Werner says, “There was a man who used that transmitter you have
10. “Sir, when it detonates we’re still going to be in this building no matter how fast we push the golf carts
11. So I want to try using a more elastic material—bronze, probably—that expands when the propelling charge detonates
12. “When the C-4 detonates, the VX will be released too,” Dylan realized
13. The whole system detonates, in my opinion
14. If the device detonates, all information may be lost
1. same as the chances of spaghetti raining from the sky and detonating upon making contact with the
2. She considered slapping her, but that only seemed to work in Hollywood productions: when she’d tried it once in Chauita, it had been the equivalent of detonating a bomb
3. He was arrested on three occasions for detonating bombs that resulted in human death, but he was never convicted
4. When the barrage in his sector lifted, Buey Dan pushed the plunger into the hand generator detonating the Bangalores, and blew the attack signal on his whistle while the crack of the wire-destroying charges still echoed in the air
5. The reactors were designed to withstand a crash without detonating if they had been shut down in time
6. The goal was to disable the reactors without detonating them, because detonating the reactors at this distance would destroy Sabrina’s ship as well as the cruiser
7. ” J T pointed at a bright flash on the display that was probably the satellite’s reactor detonating
8. � The last one hit one of the reload torpedoes stored amidship, detonating it and destroying the patrol boat in a ball of fire
9. � Patricia understood that the explosive charges that the commandos were supposed to set on the submarines were now detonating one by one
10. all of which, were composted, and triggered, with a detonating device
11. “They’re detonating as soon as they
12. it that because detonating it near a star will end all life in a solar system
13. Mirren launched a volley of torpedoes detonating them near the first grouping of
14. Their brain functions and nuclear detonating capabilities were immediately shorted out
15. I didn’t know why you let him live past his time in the beginning, but to give him your power now, it just seems blatantly foolish, detonating a mistake to make a catastrophe
16. Next, the technicians tested a detonating trigger
17. “Survivors report the suicide bombers appeared to be Orthodox Jews who wrapped themselves in Israeli flags before detonating their bombs in what was an apparent protest of this country’s decision not to intervene in the Middle East
18. A long silence followed as we both visualized the attack by the aggressive assistant DA and what would remain of my brother’s defense when she’d finished detonating him
19. the latent heat on escaping will manifest itself in the form of fire and light, the force with which it strikes the atmosphere, or the rebound of the latter to fill the vacuum, or both, will occasion sound more or less detonating or hissing, as the escape is more sudden, or the atmosphere more dense; the earthy and metallic particles on the escape of caloric, will obey the laws of cohesive attraction, clash together, recover their gravity, and descend to the earth in masses, or shattered fragments