Sentence examples for acted as a fire from inspiring English sources

It was damaged in a major fire in 1633, but in the fire of 1666 this damage acted as a fire break and prevented the flames from further damaging the bridge and crossing to the south side of the Thames.

There is a role in Iraq and Syria for foreign airpower to act as a fire brigade to stop Isis from storming Erbil in August or taking Kobane now.

They clung to the hope that a change of regime would act as a fire break for the raging flames threatening to burn the sport to the ground.

Mr Miller did go on to say he agreed with the recommendation of the taskforce but he claimed it could not be denied that the figures should act as a "fire alarm".

Coat your hands in water or something else that acts as a fire retardant if you're worried about burns.

The crisis acted as a wild fire, says Michael Malone of the Kellogg School of Management near Chicago.

From analysis conducted on the combusted residues, it can be inferred that the dominant flame retardant action of EPS-PF/ATH/FA foam occurred in the compact char layer, which acted as an effective fire-proofing and heat shielding barrier in the condensed phase.

He said the lithium manganese in the battery could have acted as "a hot spot" to accelerate a fire that started elsewhere, but "the fire would have had to have been pretty intense all by itself to set off the lithium in the device".

Mr. Beese, of Coventry, R.I., and other club employees also said the donated foam was patched to the walls with a common aerosol glue, which fire-safety experts say could have acted as an accelerant for the fire.

Others said exactly the opposite: that the fires might have acted as a cleansing agent, so hot that they incinerated many compounds that might otherwise pose a threat to cleanup workers.

Neither author believes that Rwanda's interventions in eastern Congo can be justified in terms of preventing genocide, particularly since the war there has killed nearly five times the number who were murdered in Rwanda in 1994.Rather, Mr Prunier points out, the genocide in Rwanda acted as an incendiary bomb, setting fire to disputes that go back generations.