Sentence examples for use of firecrackers from inspiring English sources

Personal use of firecrackers is still prohibited during the five-week celebration in Chinatown.

In the southeastern state of Pondicherry, police issued a one-week ban on rallies, public gatherings and the use of firecrackers.

He might have lightened up, as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has, on the use of firecrackers in Chinatown during Lunar New Year celebrations.

The use of weapons in purification rites is often based on a symbolic battle with the forces of evil; the use of firecrackers in some purification rites is viewed as a means of frightening away the demons; the use of curses, abuse, ridicule, and ribaldry in purification rites among the ancient Greeks, for example, was regarded as forms of protection against the demons.

In December 2012, the Department of Health in the Philippines launched a "Gangnam Style" dance campaign against the use of firecrackers to celebrate the New Year.

When three babies sued to prevent the use of firecrackers to celebrate India's Diwali festival, because the crackers create enormous clouds of smoke, the courts declined to intervene, referring to well established custom.

When three days of heavy pollution are predicted, an orange alert will be put in place and more action will be taken: factories will close, work on construction sites will stop, and the use of barbecues and firecrackers will be banned.

Panathinaikos was punished for the use of illegal sirens, flares and firecrackers as well as for exceeding the official capacity of its arena.

Four were found with the cyanide compound, the maps and about 10 pounds of firecrackers that could have been used to ignite the compound.

Only now, instead of a starry-eyed youth, he's a war-weary veteran who's lost the use of his legs and cringes at the sound of firecrackers.

Unusually, the ingredients used in their bright, vivid cooking are organic; with its sibling in Sunset, they're a pair of firecrackers.