Sentence examples for causing them to fire from inspiring English sources

The beam loads the quantum dots with energy, causing them to fire off photons.

When activated, they send impulses to the nerves that cause the muscles to contract, causing them to fire just as they do when we lift weights or jog.

This phenomenon is referred to as absorption and occurs when a pulse forces nodes to exceed their firing threshold, causing them to fire immediately.

Once in the brain, nicotine hijacks neurons' receptors for acetylcholine, causing them to fire even in the absence of the real thing.

They can be switched between an overhead and below-the-belly position, causing them to fire at different angles or directions.

He "immediately began firing at the officers, causing them to return fire," the police department said in a statement.

At around 5 00 p.m., the Dutch opened fire on Chinese-occupied houses with cannon, causing them to catch fire.

The device, sometimes called the "Archimedes heat ray", was used to focus sunlight onto approaching ships, causing them to catch fire.

In this case, soldiers said, the white phosphorus rounds were intended to set fire to any Taliban rockets at the firing positions, causing them to explode and preventing them from being fired on the American outposts.

A friend of the mayor, Naip Rexhepi, a Malishevo politician, said a wolf or a wild boar could have frightened the men and caused them to open fire.

But in 2006, manufacturing defects in some batteries that caused them to catch fire led computer makers to recall nearly 10 million laptops Safety regulators, however, were more worried about the instances when the batteries caught fire in the cargo hold of an aircraft, or while being carried by passengers.