Sentence examples for are detonated by from inspiring English sources

Many of these bombs are detonated by the weight of a person or vehicle that depresses a pressure plate.

For example, the MAT/5 and Valmara 69, Italian anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, are detonated by the momentarily sustained pressure from a passing vehicle or foot.

In many cases, American officers say, captured men have told them that they were paid sums ranging from $20 to $200 to stage ambushes or plant explosives that are detonated by "part-time triggermen," many of them also paid.

Will the rich Hollywood scion with the engagement ring in his pocket wind up giving it to Jessica, his actress girlfriend, whose petulant insecurities are detonated by a run-in with one of her high school classmates?

We are seeing these only in the last few weeks--these and the inverted grenades that are detonated by thin trip wires.

Mr. Khan was killed by the bomb, which officials said was detonated by a suicide attacker.

We don't know yet if it was detonated by a timer or by remote control".

Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader, said Wednesday that two bombs were detonated by remote control inside Lebanon.

The explosive, he said, may have been detonated by remote control.

The car was detonated by a long cable that wound around a corner.

Sticky bombs are usually designed so that they may be detonated by cellphone, General Jabieri said.