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32 examples of Torpedo in a sentence

You can accidentally hit "reply all" to an email and torpedo a relationship.
It's basically a nuclear-heated torpedo.
You are laying down in a flexible torpedo, sailing at high speed, controlling the shape of the hull with your legs and controlling the sail with your arms.
This is the latest: We just published this a year ago, the first brain-to-brain interface that allows two animals to exchange mental messages so that one animal that sees something coming from the environment can send a mental SMS, a torpedo, a neurophysiological torpedo, to the second animal, and the second animal performs the act that he needed to perform without ever knowing what the environment was sending as a message, because the message came from the first animal's brain.
For the next several months this cat hunted rats and raised British morale - until a sudden torpedo strike shattered the hull and sank the ship.
We give them a little pre-shape, usually a round or a little torpedo shape, sometimes.
I'm sure that any legitimate submariner would happily ship out on the USOS Seaview (yes, SOS...) Why, you could play full-court basketball in the torpedo room, it's so large.
The idea that a U-boat would fire a torpedo at a DDE, as if there was a hope of hitting it, and then be able to "run away" from the DDE while submerged, is preposterous.
Even more blatant are John Hodiak as a gangster and Wendell Corey as his insanely jealous torpedo.
But here, too, policy blunders could torpedo hopes for improvement.
It’s obvious that Trump and his strong allies in Congress – he has more than one might expect – are determined to torpedo what’s supposed to be an independent legal inquiry into whether Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia in its efforts to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
In early September, Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, suggested that to torpedo the deal, Trump could simply argue that Iran’s other misdeeds were damaging enough to merit sanctions.
These arguments were used in 1991, to torpedo the idea of carbon dioxide controls; in 1993, against the Clinton administration’s proposed BTU tax (an energy surcharge that would have taxed sources based on their heat and carbon content); in 1996, against the goals of the UN Conference of Parties in Geneva (COP2); in 1997, against the goals of the UN Conference of Parties in Kyoto (COP3); and in 1998, against the Kyoto Protocol’s implementation.
For this reason, when and if a serious dialogue commences, the spoilers will likely attempt to torpedo it by issuing belligerent rhetoric, targeting US soldiers and interests in Iraq or Afghanistan, or seeing to it that an arms shipment originating from Iran is “discovered” en route to south Lebanon or Gaza.
When China proposed the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to help recycle some of the surfeit of global savings to where financing is badly needed, the US sought to torpedo the effort.
Perhaps the most optimistic note came from the emerging markets: while the risk of globalization was that it implied a new interdependence, so that flawed economic policies in the US and Europe could torpedo developing countries’ economies, the more successful emerging markets have managed globalization well enough to sustain growth in the face of failures in the West.
This time, unlike in 1997, the United States did not even attempt to torpedo this embryonic “Asian Monetary Fund.”
Whereas the US and Russia have a very limited trade relationship – worth around $40 billion last year, or roughly 1% of America’s total trade – Europe’s financial exposure to Russia, as well as its reliance on Russian natural gas, make it far more hesitant to torpedo the economic relationship.
They also agreed to an insubstantial “rainy day” fund, to be financed by member states and a fictional financial transactions and digital economy tax – a “compromise” that costs Merkel nothing, given that countries like the Netherlands and Ireland are likely to torpedo it.
The Nuclear Beast RebornNEW YORK: Rejection by the US Senate of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was a torpedo aimed at the fragile global nuclear arms control regime built in the final decades of the Cold War.
In years past, only governments could torpedo candidates for Europe’s top jobs, but now the parliament also will be able to reject them.
After 70 days in harbor, the Struma was forced to return to the Black Sea – where it was sunk by a torpedo whose origin remains a mystery.
Adding an unrelated third party to the proceedings – especially one whose intent might be to torpedo the negotiations – would make success even less likely.
This would effectively torpedo SDG8: “to promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.”
It is also what happened in 1964, when the US used attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin as a pretext for adopting a congressional resolution that allowed President Lyndon B. Johnson, and then President Richard M. Nixon, to escalate US military involvement in the Vietnam War.
The Chassepot rifle led to the torpedo, and the torpedo has led to this underwater battering ram, which in turn will lead to the world putting its foot down.
This cylinder is all that remains of a torpedo!""A torpedo!" exclaimed the engineer's companions.
"And who put the torpedo there?" demanded Pencroft, who did not like to yield.
"All that I can tell you is, that it was not I," answered Cyrus Harding; "but it was there, and you have been able to judge of its incomparable power!"Chapter 5So, then, all was explained by the submarine explosion of this torpedo.
The "Speedy" had not been able to withstand a torpedo that would have destroyed an ironclad as easily as a fishing-boat!