Sentence examples for emp from inspiring English sources

"CONTENTED people don't innovate," says Paul Edwards, the boss of Emerging Markets Payments (EMP), a firm that provides the switches and wiring for electronic payments in Africa.

A detonation in space would generate a powerful electromagnetic pulse (EMP) which could knock out electrical circuits and power grids across a continent.

A nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is the time-varying electromagnetic radiation resulting from a nuclear explosion.

These asymmetries result in time-varying electrical currents that produce the EMP.

North Korea's recent claimed 'hydrogen bomb' was believed to have a yield of around 10 kilotons, far too small to create a significant EMP.

Ashton B. Carter, an under secretary of defense, created a permanent task force that is working to rebuild the eroded American capability to deter nuclear attack, including nuclear EMP.

In 1993, a soldier in the army's elite presidential-security division (EMP), which functioned as a death squad, was convicted of killing Ms Mack.

And, besides punching holes in steel, such a machine could also be used to form shapes out of the metal without the need to use a mould or a die.Firms such as Germany's giant carmaker Volkswagen are sponsoring the project because forming steel components with an EMP device provides a number of advantages.

Last week, a former colonel and head of the notorious presidential guard unit (EMP), Juan Valencia Osorio, was freed on appeal after being convicted last year of ordering the murder of a human-rights investigator, Myrna Mack, in 1990.

To cope with any sudden spike in voltage caused by an EMP, military-specified components had to be hardened with ceramic substrates and thick aluminium leads in place of the flimsy plastic packaging used commercially.

The Soviet Union went so far as to use robust thermionic valves instead of microcircuits to protect the most crucial electronic parts of its aircraft.Most of the damage done by a nuclear EMP is caused by the so-called E1 pulse the first of a high-altitude nuclear explosion's three electromagnetic components.