Sentence examples for substances fire from inspiring English sources

Over the last two years, 12 members of the department were dismissed after testing positive for the use of controlled substances, fire officials said.

But unlike most previous Chinese numerologists, who usually preferred the numbers two or five, Shao believed the key to the world hinged on the number four; thus the universe is divided into four sections (Sun, Moon, stars, and zodiac), the body into four sense organs (eye, ear, nose, and mouth), and the Earth into four substances (fire, water, earth, and stone).

Mr. Baitz himself, after all, created some pretty warped (and warping) parental types in earlier works, characters who testified to the juiciness of such roles for the right actors: the splenetic father played by Ron Rifkin in "The Substance of Fire," the fire-breathing mother embodied by Judith Ivey in "A Fair Country," the monumentally selfish artist of Donald Sutherland in "Ten Unknowns".

Whatever else the Renaissance did for art, it elevated this fragile reddish substance, fired for longevity and used for buildings and their decoration since ancient times, to a sculptural material.

An analogy between the heat release rate of substances containing fire retardant (FR) chemicals is established and several ways by which FR behavior can be achieved are demonstrated.

Jon Robin Baitz, whose credits include "The Substance of Fire" and "Ten Unknowns," is working on the play.

Richard Dreyfuss on Stage Richard Dreyfuss will be on hand for a staged reading of the play "The Substance of Fire" by Jon Robin Baitz, tomorrow night at 7 30.

In the plays for which he is best known — "The Substance of Fire" (1991) and "A Fair Country" (1996) — Mr. Baitz created memorable portraits of fire-breathing, child-scorching parents whose failings mirrored those of their made-in-America cultures.

This early work from Mr. Baitz, author of "The Substance of Fire" and the recent "Other Desert Cities" (scheduled for Broadway this fall) is a study of a polluted marriage, choking to death on moral compromises.

His projects over the last 20 years have included "The Heidi Chronicles," "The Sisters Rosenzweig" and "An American Daughter" by Wendy Wasserstein; "The Substance of Fire" and "A Fair Country" by Jon Robin Baitz; and "I'm Not Rappaport" and "Conversations With My Father" by Herb Gardner.

The idea is that the activity of sprinkling is 'compatible with' (i.e. can only be done with) a liquid like water, and not with a substance like fire.