Sentence examples for avoid detonating from inspiring English sources

Their wooden construction gives them a low magnetic signature to avoid detonating mines that sense magnetic fields, a benefit appreciated by their crews who rotate from the United States every six months.

It is over 100 years old.A good explosive needs to be extremely powerful but not too sensitive to avoid its being detonated accidentally, such as by dropping it.

Water sampling also has the advantage of avoiding the risks of detonating unexploded ordnance, which has very high density in eastern Laos.

Both men detonated suicide vests to avoid being captured.

And to avoid any possibility of repair, they detonate a small timed radioactive paintball after they leave.

General Hassan and his bodyguard were driving a rented car that was not armored to avoid drawing attention, and the bomb was detonated by remote control from a place overlooking the site.

The prototype was detonated in the desert to avoid detection.

However when he fails, Khaldun throws himself as Abu detonates the bomb, in order to avoid further casualties.

On being warned, Iowa turned hard to avoid being hit by the torpedo and the torpedo detonated in the ship's wake.

Delayed by the weather and attempting to avoid the landing craft as they ran in, the bombers had dropped their ordnance too far inland, detonating some landmines that were planted by the Germans, but having no real effect on the coastal defenses.

One of the narrative threads in the first act concerns the suggestion by some scientists working at Los Alamos that the United States should detonate the first bomb as a warning — a "demonstration project" — that would be staged to minimize or avoid loss of life, but in such a way as to impress upon the Japanese leadership the need to surrender immediately.