Sentence examples for striking fire from inspiring English sources

Often depicted as a vigorous, bearded man holding an ax, Pērkons rides across the sky striking fire with his two-wheeled chariot and bringing rain.

THE news footage is striking: fires burn on the streets of Kiev; scorched banners flutter on buildings; madding crowds stumble through the chaos below.

After the US began to use a tactic known as "signature striking" — firing on unidentified groups of military aged males engaged in "suspicious" behavior — in 2012 British military trainers were forbidden from sharing intelligence with American forces, to ensure compliance with Britain's counterterrorism rule of law.

Firing pin impressions are generated because of striking of firing pin on the percussion cap of the cartridge.

Actually, the alteration in PC firing pattern is much more striking than the firing rate changes in BK−/− mice and could be reproduced by microinjection of paxilline into the vermis of WT mice, which also produced ataxia.

His Beechcraft Bonanza skimmed the parapet of an old factory on Kent Street, dived to the street and plowed down the block, striking and setting fire to cars and hitting a closed fast-food restaurant.

A soccer player with power bends his planted leg in order to generate enough force with the striking foot to fire the ball into the net.

Reagan cited Coolidge's tough handling of striking Boston police when he fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981.

Despite this striking reduction in firing frequency, PCs maintained highly regular firing patterns as indicated by the low fraction of cells that exhibited bursting and the low coefficient of variations (CVs).

Striking teachers were fired and replaced by young people with no experience.

Further, he said the greatest foreign policy decision of his lifetime was Reagan firing striking air-traffic controllers.