Sentence examples for could be extinguished from inspiring English sources

All these tentative signs of recovery could be extinguished by another downturn.

That was good news, I figured, since conditioned fear could be extinguished.

To understand its role in this case, we need to remind ourselves of the crew's belief that most fires could be extinguished by 10 the next morning.

The way they look now, after 11 losses in the last 15 games, their playoff hopes could be extinguished by the time they return home.

And with Washington policymakers busy raising taxes and cutting government spending, there's always a danger that even the modest recovery we have seen could be extinguished.

The most-important figure of this period was Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, who believed that European colonial rule of Africa could be extinguished if Africans could unite politically and economically.

Some thermal weapons (such as quicklime or oil) could not be extinguished or eased by water, in which case sand or earth could be used.

Contemporary sources make clear that it could not be extinguished by water, but rather floated and burned on top of it; sand could extinguish it by depriving it of oxygen, and several authors also mention strong vinegar and old urine as being able to extinguish it, presumably by some sort of chemical reaction.

The substance could be thrown in pots or discharged from tubes; it apparently caught fire spontaneously and could not be extinguished with water.

The site's search mechanism was also clumsy, and the subtitles could not be extinguished.

By then, the fire had established a strong enough foothold that it could not be extinguished once it was exposed.