Sentence examples for off the firepower from inspiring English sources

I mean, it definitely looks nicer than say, Zyclon B or most of his other brainwaves.But, just as Hitler's torch wasn't enough to inspire his Nazzers to defeat Jesse Owens, its puny flame may not be enough to ward off the firepower of Britain's gangs, political protestors and viral marketers desperate to harness the power of the torch to promote their frozen yoghurt companies.

He did the easy part: showing off American firepower to the gaping samurai on shore, and forcing a trade agreement on the emperor.

But the firepower arriving off Tripoli could prove convenient, and not only to protect the expedition from coming under attack.

LIBYA The rebels seeking to oust Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi claimed minor victories in some of their last footholds as they battled to hold off the Qaddafi forces' superior firepower.

TRIPOLI, Libya — The rebels seeking to oust Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi claimed minor victories on Wednesday in some of their last footholds at both ends of the country's coast as they battled to hold off the Qaddafi forces' superior firepower and to disprove a claim by one of Colonel Qaddafi's sons that the last of the insurrection would be wiped out "in 48 hours".

But talks today have been more productive, as market watchers said the supermarket group had the firepower to pull off an agreement.

The Guernsey player, not long turned 20, did not have the firepower to hold off or consistently to inconvenience the tall, imposing Görges who completed a 6-3, 6-4 win on the compact, noisy court No2.

Album by album, Radiohead has shed the rock bombast that they never had the firepower to pull off, while Thom Yorke has let the heady glow of his voice trump his borrowed snarls and shifted the focus of his lyrics from teen-age anomie to genuine dread and a new, surprisingly apposite sense of sexuality.

And so Standard Cognition is pushing as fast as it can build a lead and brand by giving independent retail stores and chains the firepower to fight off Amazon.

Now the fashion is for big safes.For some gun owners the safes themselves have become the thing to show off, their bulk and decoration hinting at the firepower contained within.

Even universal background checks on guns have come up against a wall of Second Amendment rhetoric proclaiming the rights of citizens to virtually unregulated gun ownership and to defensive arsenals of firepower to ward off the federal government.