(a.) Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches.
Example Sentences:
(1) The RAF Tornados, based in Britain’s base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, can fire radar-guided anti-armour Brimstone missiles, which are conservatively estimated to cost £100,000 each; heavier Paveway IV bombs, estimated at £30,000 apiece; and long-range Storm Shadow missiles, estimated at nearly £790,000 each.
(2) All of the white butterflies declined, as did garden favourites such as the holly blue and brimstone.
(3) Can we talk about Brimstone and Treacle, the vision of a devil ... Ah, Brimstone and Treacle was ... Can I break off for a second?
(4) Until junior doctors went on all-out strike a fortnight ago, the health secretary Jeremy Hunt was all fire and brimstone, flatly refusing to negotiate with a “blackmailing” union .
(5) He insisted the UK’s high precision Brimstone missile was needed by the UK’s allies over Syria since it reduces civilian casualties.
(6) As part of the highest number of combined strikes on Libya since Nato took command of the military operation on 31 March, the Tornados fired Brimstone anti-tank missiles and Paveway IV bombs, described by defence officials as precision weapons with an accuracy of a few metres.
(7) On 31 January, Tornados and Reapers were described as having attacked Isis vehicles and “a group of terrorists” with an unknown number of Paveway IV bombs, and Brimstone and Hellfire missiles.
(8) A god of absence, of null, of nothingness – a god with no specific given name: somehow this seems more frightening than all the angry thunderbolt-throwers and purveyors of fire-and-brimstone put together.
(9) Brimstone missiles, developed at a cost of £850m to replace cluster bombs used in Iraq, were first fired from RAF Harrier jets in Afghanistan.
(10) But now, listen to the fire, brimstone and old-time religion that pours forth from Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham – rather more, tonally at least, than Jeremy Corbyn, who sticks to his measured, slightly stilted kind of oratory, but manages to come up with applause-line after applause-line.
(11) Stories of brimstone, fire and gods make good tales and do a decent job of stirring up the requisite fear and jeopardy.
(12) • Facebook page Gonzo Falafel and Hummus According to Karen Brooks: "Gonzo's owner, Tal Caspi, considers every element: from scratch-cooked garbanzos to crisp fries teetering on top, though I'm more a sucker for his Shawarma fries, a beautiful mess of curry-clad chicken, thick-cut fries, hummus, tahini and a condiment hotter than brimstone fire."
(13) We have evolved to wear crucifixes on necklaces without feeling the crushing weight of potential divine wrath and brimstone.
(14) The Guardian view on the Syria debate: crossing the watershed | Editorial Read more All he did know was our Brimstone missiles were programmed to target only people carrying Isis passports and doing something was better than doing nothing.
(15) The plan is for the Protector to be armed with UK-made Brimstone 2 missiles and Paveway IV laser-guided bombs.
(16) Brimstone missiles are conservatively estimated to cost £100,000 each, Paveway IV bombs £30,000 apiece, and Hellfire missiles £71,300 each.
(17) Thus culture secretary Maria Miller , doing her fire-and-brimstone bit if the press didn't sign up her regulatory royal charter, now says that the newspapers' own Independent Press Standards Organisation must be allowed to get up and running so she can see if it's a worthy successor to the Press Complaints Commission.
(18) Madhuku went first, wearing a blazer and striped shirt, clapping his hands and speaking with fire and brimstone.
(19) #Rapture" In Australia, Jon Gall of Melbourne was unimpressed by the lack of fire and brimstone.
(20) Tornados have dropped at least 87 Paveway IV bombs and fired at least 47 Brimstone missiles.
Damnation
Definition:
(n.) The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
(n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
(n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now they pit salvation against damnation, national glory against famines, locusts, boils and immigrant hordes.
(2) He had been questioning his own church too, specifically its contention that "all who did not know and love Jesus were condemned to everlasting damnation".
(3) Tatchell said the new statement was not enough to call off the protest which will take place outside the Barbican on Thursday before Gergiev conducts the LSO in Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
(4) Even now, his schedule remains punishing: his production of Berlioz's Damnation Of Faust has just premiered in Paris, a work centring on Frida Kahlo should surface in Canada later this year, and a collaboration with Peter Gabriel called Zulu Time will arrive at the Roundhouse early next year.
(5) Blaaaak” out of my grandmother’s mouth travels a step beyond being a pejorative to having the hair-raising resonance of a word that damns as well as describes damnation itself.
(6) Looking back in 1994, Kael was as accurate as ever in pinpointing her own faults as a writer: "reckless excess in both praise and damnation ...
(7) The economy must be placated, nourished and revived, they believe, no matter what the cost – for the alternative is doom and damnation for us all.
(8) Just as in the 15th and 16th centuries you could sleep with your sister and kill and lie without fear of eternal damnation, today you can live exactly as you please as long as you give your ducats to one of the companies selling indulgences.
(9) Nothing the bishops discussed in Rome over the past few weeks will save me and my kind from damnation.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christopher Purves as Mephistopheles and Peter Hoare as Faust in Terry Gilliam’s The Damnation of Faust, for the English National Opera.
(11) 75,000 men were arrested during this period for what was referred to as – in words of euphemistic damnation – “gross indecency”.
(12) Chilcot’s damnation of the misuse of defence resources before Iraq might as well be wrapping fish and chips.
(13) These factors include Demandingness, Awfulizing, I-Can't-Stand-It-Itis, and Self-Damnation.
(14) We’ve got no intention of following those radical elements in all the Christian churches, according to the Catholic churches in one or two countries, and going out of business.” The business is shame and damnation.
(15) The present, often strident and threatening, damnation of benzodiazepines oversteps the mark and causes avoidable misery to patients whose well-being has become largely and therapeutically dependent on the drug.
(16) Perhaps it's a pity, therefore, that all that survived of his preface to the novel was a single, dogmatic sentence: "As long as social damnation exists, through laws and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilisation and muddying a destiny that is divine with human calamity; as long as the three problems of the century - man's debasement through the proletariat, woman's demoralisation through hunger, the wasting of the child through darkness - are not resolved; as long as social suffocation is possible in certain areas; in other words, and to take an even broader view, as long as ignorance and misery exist in this world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless."
(17) A culture of eternal damnation has led to a worrying fashion for a sort of career-death penalty, in which the media and tweeters impose a top-up term on released prisoners who they think have got off lightly.
(18) But particularly singled out for special damnation : Haringey council.
(19) Meeting "the voice and embodiment of the jazz age, its product and its beneficiary, a popular novelist, a movie scenarist, a dweller in the gilded palaces", the reporter found instead, to his distinct hilarity, that Fitzgerald was "forecasting doom, death and damnation to his generation".
(20) It is true to say that the glory of man is his capacity for salvation; it is also true to say that his glory is his capacity for damnation.'