Sentence examples for accelerant from inspiring English sources

"Petrol or some other accelerant was poured over my shutters by a number of people.

They did tell me that it was definitely on purpose, so it was arson, gasoline was used as the accelerant".

They provided an early indicator of trouble at investment banks, although they became distorted as more and more firms scrambled to hedge or speculate.But if credit swaps were not a primary cause of the past year's conflagrations, they were, in certain respects, an accelerant.

"Technology is definitely serving as an accelerant," argues Jared Cohen, a former official in America's State Department who is now the director of Google Ideas, a think-tank run by the internet company.It can also accelerate progress in other areas, as this report has argued.

Subprime debt secured against houses seemed safe.A third and final accelerant is the financial industry.

Competition is a powerful accelerant.

The third accelerant is the finance industry.

Investigators found traces of a fire accelerant at the scene and believe the fire was caused by arson.

So there are two tips for starters: soak the fences before you start; and don't choose petrol as what the fire brigade likes to call "an accelerant".

Martinez considers the financial gulf between the two sides to be "huge", and in response to the question of whether he envied the resources Brendan Rodgers had at his disposal, said that money was only an accelerant which allowed "overnight" success while real growth had to be organic.

If the floor had been soaked with a liquid accelerant and the fire had burned low, as the evidence suggested, Willingham could not have run out of the house the way he had described without badly burning his feet.