Sentence examples for an explosive effect from inspiring English sources

This act by a desperate clique of Catholics – "5/11" as it is now sometimes called – had an explosive effect, even though the actual explosion was foiled.

His accusations had an explosive effect in Kosovo.

Delivering clean water to hundreds of millions of households could have an explosive effect on public health and productivity.

Radical Islamism, which has had such an explosive effect in the Middle East, has failed to catch fire below the Sahara (see article).The television news can give a different impression.

In adults age 20 to 50, fractures are often caused by direct high-energy forces that have an explosive effect on bone and soft tissues and may cause severely displaced open fractures.

Palace's players had arrived at the Amex for the second leg of the semi-final to find the tension in the tie had clearly already had an explosive effect.

In a sequence so bristling with understated menace, this tiny, near-subliminal moment of expressive camerawork has a properly explosive effect.

As one of the first substantial articles in a mainstream publication to cast serious doubt on the whole Vietnam adventure, it had an immediate and explosive effect, infuriating both General Westmoreland and President Lyndon B. Johnson and planting seeds of doubt in the public mind.

The number of performers shrinks and expands, as when a trio grows into a quartet, and Mr. Cunningham introduces a strange turn in the air with a bent leg, later used to explosive effect by a larger group.

"We are certain that the kinds of injuries that we've seen and the explanation for … what people saw at the source of the attack could not be explained simply as a result of the explosive effect of conventional or incendiary munitions".

Mr. Armstrong's words had the "explosive effect of an H-bomb," said The Chicago Defender.