In the classroom, David Young held the gasoline bomb, with the triggering mechanism attached to a shoelace tied around his wrist.

At 8.20 p.m. after he had turned on the ignition of his car and the vehicle slowly reversed down the driveway, the movement-sensitive switch in the detonating mechanism of the five pound booby-trap bomb attached to its underside was activated, and the device exploded.

I backpedaled, burning another, not realizing until later that it had some mechanism attached to its underside, presumably a stun ray.

Helen delayed behind him, doing something to a mechanism attached to the heavy door, then closing it carefully behind her when she was out too.

Many of the "smart" bombs used in Afghanistan, for example, were simply 2,000-pound unguided bombs with a $20,000 mechanism attached to the bomb's tail that allowed it to be steered to a target by satellite.

They devised a boot that had a rear-releasing mechanism attached to the uppermost cuff.

The first wheel on the right-hand side of the train hit a bolt in the mechanism attached to the trip arm and knocked the arm down.

At The Global Fund, Willison oversees technology and implementation programs for the organization's financial disbursement review cycles with mechanisms attached to the various country programs in the fields of Aids, Malaria, and Tuberculosis.

The thing had 'a good solid heft to it, and there were assorted minor mechanisms attached.

And lining the interior walls of the clocktower: what are these strange mechanisms, attached to cheap time-pieces - why are there so many bottles with rags stuffed into their necks?