Sentence examples for strike a target from inspiring English sources

For this reason, strategic missiles have almost exclusively carried nuclear warheads, which need not strike a target directly in order to destroy it.

"Today, we can present some conventional options to the president to strike a target anywhere on the globe that range from 96 hours, to several hours maybe, 4, 5, 6 hours," General Chilton said.

The positrons are produced as secondary particles when the electron beam is allowed to strike a target one-third of the distance along the accelerator, and they are later fed back into the machine, alternately with electrons, for acceleration along its full length.

In this technique, a high power pulsed laser beam is focused inside a vacuum chamber to strike a target of the material (in our case, calcium orthophosphates) resulting in a gaseous cloud of various atoms, ions, molecules, molecular clusters and, in some cases, droplets and target fragments, due to a thermal decomposition of the target (Dinda et al. 2009).

The high-energy electrons strike a target to create X-rays from 1 to 2 MeV in energy.

In the expert motions shown in Figure  6 we also found that the slopes and intercepts across training contexts remained similar when the Jab was intended to strike a target (imaginary) opponent.

Thus yoked, the photons will remain inseparable until they strike a target--in this case, the chip-in-progress.

Later, as a bomb struck a target, two Iraqi soldiers could be seen fleeing for their lives.

The result is that a lot of well-acted rage by the three-member cast feels as if it's bouncing off the walls rather than striking a target.

Striking a target far away from the fence with a rock is possible if the thrower has the strength to hurl the object a good distance.

In one British study, it was found that the average Typhoon pilot firing a barrage of all eight rockets had only a four percent chance of striking a target the size of a tank.