Sentence examples for explosive state from inspiring English sources

All these men were power players, many of them responsible for the snarled and explosive state of global politics then and now.

I'd bet that more people suspect a missile caused the explosion on the 747 than know a basic fact of commercial aviation: during flight, the center fuel tank on a Boeing plane is in an explosive state as much as 30percentt of the time.

Yet despite extensive research and testing, investigators could not determine exactly what ignited the fuel vapors in the nearly empty tank, which had been heated to an explosive state while the 25-year-old jet sat baking in the sun for nearly three hours before taking off.

Meeting in Washington, the board endorsed the findings of investigators that a mixture of fuel and air in the airplane's nearly empty center wing fuel tank blew up after being heated into an explosive state by the sun and air-conditioning packs attached to the outside of the tank.

A weakly nonlinear stability analysis is performed and the range of preferred wave numbers for which the disturbances reach finite equilibrium amplitude or an explosive state is obtained.

Despite defying the regime's unprecedented show of force, however, demonstrators are looking for genuine leadership and organization.[16] Indeed, in a situation where society has reached an explosive state and the regime is on the brink, the primary issue revolves around what the alternative force and who the leadership are.

The sense of imminent threat seems to distill an entire era into a few uncompromisingly extreme, psychologically explosive states.

It "transformed what had been relatively quiet provinces of the Ottoman Empire into some of the least stable and most internationally explosive states in the world".

Bomb-sniffing dogs and other bomb squad personnel searched the building and found no explosives, state police told the Chicago Tribune.

In a flurry of second-quarter plays, Hardin saw just how explosive Boise State can be.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 — Two Egyptian men who are students at the University of South Florida were indicted Friday on federal charges of transporting explosives across state lines, with one of the men accused of offering explosives training with the intent of carrying out violence.