Sentence examples for detonating effect from inspiring English sources

We indeed live in a globalized, multipolar world, increasingly shaped by a complex "disenchanted" economy, that has a detonating effect on national borders and gradually marginalizes politics.

Mr. Lehman now says he was using "shorthand" to describe works already well known to him, but the deception had a detonating effect.

Then, when detonated, the effect of the explosion would be focused on a small area and would rupture an armoured plate much thicker than would otherwise be the case.

The last pitch appeared to be well outside the strike zone, and after a momentary pause, the home-plate umpire Justin Klemm raised his hands to signal a third strike, a call that had the practical effect of detonating the repressed frustration of Jorge Posada.

Twelve Vixen B trials, between 1960 and 1963, attempted to discover the effects of high explosives detonating a nuclear weapon in a fire (typical of conditions which would occur in aviation accidents) and involved 22 kg of plutonium.

It exists only to allow Audiard to construct his elaborate edifices of language, and then bring them down by detonating a precisely positioned word of argot — an effect that is probably beyond the power of subtitles to render.

But he said that Islamic State's trademark tactic of detonating massive vehicular suicide bombs has had a demoralizing effect.

William Penney worked on means to assess the effects of a nuclear explosion, and wrote a paper on what height the bombs should be detonated at for maximum effect in attacks on Germany and Japan.

From the age of four or five, she learned from her father that swearing had enormous comic effect when detonated at exactly the right moment.

The two flare droppers also bombed the oil storage depot with minimal effect and one bomb penetrated through the hull of the heavy cruiser without detonating.

Those who affirm that painting an object has little or no effect on most properties of most of the objects in the room are likely to concede that detonating a bomb actually does affect most of those properties.