Sentence examples for that detonated the from inspiring English sources
On the Manhattan Project, Fitch developed the timing devices that detonated the first atomic bombs.
Barely two months since the triumphant overthrow of the Tunisian dictator that detonated the Arab revolution, a western view is taking hold that it's already gone horribly wrong.
He prepared the mobile phones that detonated the bombs which killed so many innocent Spanish commuters on the trains into the nearby Atocha station on 11 March 2004.
Ms. Zoulova said a police investigation at the residence indicated that the safe itself had exploded because of careless handling that detonated the security system.
Mr. Zougam owned a shop where most of the phone cards used in the mobile phones that detonated the explosives were bought.
Mason was known for a quiet, gentle demeanor that belied a grand, daring and tenacious creative vision that detonated the conventions of ceramic art.
Technological innovations to counter IEDs therefore have also focused on interrupting the signals that detonate the devices.
They are often activated when the weight of an armored vehicle -- or sometimes just a soldier or a Marine walking overhead -- squeezes together a trigger consisting of two buried slats, which closes a circuit that detonates the bomb.
Some, employing an accordion-like trigger design, can withstand the sudden shock of a nearby explosion, detonating only when more slowly depressed, as by the pressure of a foot; others employ anti-disturbance devices that detonate the mine whenever it is handled, injuring or killing would-be deminers.
And add that the corrosive acid that detonates the fuse also gradually slows down each computer's functioning — so that it's much better off, more likely to make more significant calculations, by interfacing with another computer before its own connections have worn down.
Such grenades have a fuse that detonates the explosive either on impact or after a brief (usually four-second) time delay that is long enough for the grenade to be accurately thrown but is too brief for enemy soldiers to toss the grenade back once it has landed among them.
