Sentence examples for large quantities of explosives from inspiring English sources

Vehicle-borne IEDs aimed at destroying buildings can contain large quantities of explosives to enhance their destructive capacity.

Although no one is supposed to get hurt, trying to make grand gestures that involve large quantities of explosives is an enterprise fraught with risk, especially for amateurs, as the three protagonists soon discover.

In 1973 a Special Criminal Court in the Republic of Ireland sentenced him to six months in prison after he had been caught in a car containing large quantities of explosives and ammunition.

BAGHDAD — A wide-ranging plot to bomb government ministries and other public places, to be followed by a wave of political assassinations, was uncovered by Iraqi officials, who responded Tuesday by bringing much of Baghdad to a virtual standstill while security forces conducted raids that netted large quantities of explosives, officials said.

Martin McGuinness is sentenced to six months in prison by the Republic of Ireland's Special Criminal Court, after he was caught in a car containing large quantities of explosives and ammunition.

That case received significant attention because two of the suspects were, like Mr. Breininger, German converts to Islam, and because they had amassed large quantities of explosive chemicals.

Preliminary field reports for the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) suggest that large quantities of explosive remnants of war (ERW) -- including unexploded and abandoned ammunition such as artillery shells, mortars, rockets, grenades, bullets and aircraft bombs -- have been left behind in the aftermath of air attacks and ground operations.

The official said the bomb was very close to the minister and contained a large quantity of explosives.

Irish republican dissidents appear to have been dealt a blow with the discovery of a large quantity of explosives on Friday in a border area of Northern Ireland.

"Daesh placed a large quantity of explosives in the temple of Baal Shamin... and then blew it up causing much damage to the temple," said Maamoun Abdulkarim, using another name for Isis.

WASHINGTON — The authorities in Yemen have seized a boat in their territorial waters filled with a large quantity of explosives, weapons and money, according to American officials briefed on the interdiction.