Sentence examples for massive bombs from inspiring English sources

Now they have seized on the tactic of detonating massive bombs in Shia neighbourhoods, timed for no particular reason.

The spectacular synergy between local fighters and special forces on the ground, combined with long-range air power, helped to ensure that America's massive bombs were delivered in a relatively accurate way.

I expected the massive bombs would cause a large numbers of casualties, and the timing of the explosions — during rush-hour traffic — to have substantial impact on the lives of Baghdadis.

Then, when I was scarcely a mile from Cairo airport, my travel agent called from Beirut to tell me that massive bombs had just exploded outside two Sunni Salafist-led mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli; this only a week after an equally huge explosion in the Shia suburbs of Beirut killed 22 people.

The counter sappers managed to delay or disarm the massive bombs intended to devastate the walls.

World War II saw massive bombing of military targets and major cities.

I experienced both massive bombing raids and barrages of mortar and artillery fire".

Another suicide bomber detonated a massive bomb loaded in a car parked on the street in front of two clubs.

It will not be like the gulf war, made to order for America's massive bombing, tank and helicopter attacks.

Israel has responded with a massive bombing campaign; thousands of Lebanese Shiites are fleeing their villages in the south, traveling north to the relative safety of Beirut.

Military strategists note that massive bombing raids are effective, but usually they are a prelude to ground invasions, as was the case in both Gulf Wars.