Sentence examples for the explosive of choice from inspiring English sources

(See debt ceiling, the explosive of choice).

The bombs found in cargo planes destined for America contained the compound PETN, which is becoming the explosive of choice for terrorists.

Researchers have developed a hand-held sensor that can quickly detect the presence of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), the explosive of choice in footwear.

She said that the Brussels bombers' explosive of choice, TATP, might be able to damage parts of the plant but that the damage would shut down the reactor, limiting the radiation damage.

He moved from cherry bombs to M-80 fireworks to sticks of dynamite, which became his explosive of choice.

The explosives of the greatest importance are the high explosives: nitroaromatics, nitramines, and nitrate esters.

In the early years after 9/11 the suicide belt, the car bomb and the homemade explosive device were the weapons of choice for jihadis: hidden, brutal and hard to counter.

The furor began just as Mr. Biden, then the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was about to preside over the explosive hearings of President Ronald Reagan's choice for the Supreme Court, the conservative jurist Robert H. Bork.

And as security in Baghdad has improved, the small and furtive bomb — though less lethal than entire cars or even thick suicide belts packed with explosive — is fast becoming the device of choice for a range of insurgent groups.

By the summer, the Shia insurgency was beginning to sweep across Basra and southern Iraq and in the months to come crude, but deadly, improvised explosive devices would become the weapon of choice against British soldiers, tearing through ineffectual armoured plating on vehicles, killing and maiming scores of soldiers.

This is likely to be the result of the fact that the improvised explosive device has become the weapon of choice against coalition forces by insurgent groups.