Sentence examples for large quantity of explosives from inspiring English sources

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

A large quantity of explosives were stored in the trunk of that car, perhaps for another attack.

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.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist and monitoring group based in Britain, said Sunday in a statement that Islamic State fighters detonated "a large quantity of explosives" that they had arranged around the Temple of Baalshamin, one of the most grand and well-preserved structures in the sprawling complex of ruins.

Meanwhile in Peshawar, the police seized a large quantity of explosive material and arrested a would-be suicide bomber.

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

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.

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.

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.