Sentence examples for was set to explode from inspiring English sources

The nuclear device was set to explode after the crew was safely out of the blast area.

"One of the packages was defused only 17 minutes before the moment that it was set to explode," Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux told the state-run France-2 television station.

Lucent was created in 1996 when it was spun off from AT&T into a market that was set to explode with growth -- fed by optimism about the Internet and another round of deregulation.

A heterosexual epidemic was set to explode, a team of leading international epidemiologists predicted in a report called AIDS in Asia: Face the Facts.

The NBA was set to explode.

Each balloon in the 30 trials was set to explode at a random pump.

Australia's high street battle is set to explode in early 2014.

There was profound, immediate fear that another bomb could have been set to explode in another locale.

After being activated, the bombs were set to explode when the vehicles rolled over pressure-plate detonators.

In four hours, a whole festival of new music is set to explode, with simultaneous concerts in three spaces.

Most of that demand will centre on Asia, where migration from the country into cities is set to explode.