Intense winds knocked down several houses as well as a church, and many buildings lost their roofs.
Steve Davis held his nerve under intense pressure to knock out the defending champion, John Higgins, at the World Championship to become the oldest quarter-finalist in the tournament since 1983.
It takes intense radiation to knock electrons from helium, so the team suggests this month in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that IZw 18 may be the home of modern-day equivalents of those primordial, bright, supergiant stars.
Intense physical performance knocks out the carbohydrates stored in an athlete's muscles.
Sandy is expected to be a strong — perhaps historic — tropical storm that could cause severe coastal flooding, intense wind damage and knock out power to millions of people for days.
Hurricane Sandy is expected to slam into the East Coast sometime early next week as a strong — perhaps historic — tropical storm that could cause severe coastal flooding, generate intense wind damage and knock out power to millions of people for days.
Intense solar activity can knock out power grids, GPS navigations and radio communications.
"We will announce something so big, so crazy, so intense that it will knock you off your seats and leave you thinking 'WTF!' We're gearing up to make global EDM history, and do something that NO electronic music festival has EVER done," festival organizers pledged on Facebook.
And they have done so at some peril: When the rockets hit about 500 yards from where Arawi was standing, he said, the shock wave was so intense that he was knocked backward.
Vaccinators working in central Iraq, where violence and suspicion are at their most intense, risk their lives to knock on doors and ask to immunize children.
