Sentence examples for fire preventing from inspiring English sources

Fireproofing improves the capacity of process items and of support structures to maintain their structural integrity during a fire, preventing or at least delaying the collapse of structural elements.

As they moved to the east of Beit Hanun, the XXI Corps Cavalry Regiment, which was still attached to the brigade, came under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, preventing the brigade from advancing further.

More recent additions to the Calico site were made of adobe, not wood, and those buildings acted like bookends for the fire, preventing it from spreading closer to more historic structures, Tucker said.

From the 400 Plateau it was possible to observe as far south as Gaba Tepe and its possession would have afforded the Ottomans the ability to place the approaches to the Second Ridge under fire, preventing the flow of reinforcements and supplies from the beachhead to the forward trenches.

A fireline can also be created with water, soaking up the perimeter of the fire, preventing future spreading.

A fire prevented you from filing.

Fire prevents most saltcedar stands from either reaching maturity or persisting as mature communities.

Yukinaga led the attack with his troops scaling ladders while musket fire prevented the Koreans from counterattacking.

It was hindered because two of the four emergency chutes on one side of plane failed to open, and the engine fire prevented evacuations on the other side, he said.

Some people surmised that his memories of the fire prevented him from going to a homeless shelter, even on the coldest nights; he couldn't stand to be closed in.

On the afternoon of August 30, Confederate artillery fire prevented the success of a Union assault on Jackson's positions, after which Lee ordered his entire army forward in a grand counterattack.