"If I started the movie with flashlights and sirens coming to Zurich, like what happened last Wednesday – I knew if we would write any line like this, everyone would say: 'What are you doing, man?
In 2004 Wal-Mart peered into its mammoth databases and noticed that before a hurricane struck, there was a run on flashlights and batteries, as might be expected; but also on Pop-Tarts, a sugary American breakfast snack.
Nokia's cheapest mobile handsets come equipped with flashlights (because of frequent power cuts), multiple phone books (because they often have several different users), rubberised key pads and menus in several different languages.
To this basic equipment many police officers add cell phones or pagers, flashlights, binoculars, tape recorders, portable scanners, plastic gloves, and extra weapons (e.g., a spare gun, a confiscated knife, a blackjack, or brass knuckles).
Optional enhancements to the M16 family include the M203 grenade launcher, a bayonet, and an assortment of rail-mounted flashlights, scopes, and laser-targeting systems.
Alkaline batteries, moreover, provide much higher capacity to operate flashlights, toys, compact disc players, and radios than either of the other two zinc manganese dioxide systems discussed above.
In addition to a broad array of handgun designs and models, the firm prospered from the sale of ancillary products ranging from knives and flashlights to handcuffs and law-enforcement apparel.
In dry-cell batteries, which are often used in flashlights, the electrons given up by zinc are taken up by ammonium ions (NH4+) present in the battery as ammonium chloride (NH4Cl).
As a swarm of flashlights and floodlights swept the scene of an Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, the spectacle was horrific.
Firefighters and other emergency personnel with flashlights climbed over the pile of rubble to check for possible casualties.
The video, which I have seen, shows the gangsters unloading boxes of blankets, water, instant ramen noodles, bean sprouts, flashlights, batteries, paper nappies, toilet rolls: all the essentials of daily life in front of the still-standing City Hall.
