Stout threw a backpack containing an accelerant onto the Planned Parenthood facility's roof and then lit material attached to the accelerant on Oct.
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LARRY FINK: So I said this on this show: I think some of the changes which creates, I think, an accelerant, I think our cap on the deductions is an accelerant.
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The Reds bullpen as a fire accelerant (LW: NR) 20.
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Climate change is already a massive accelerant to global crises.
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Trump is the apotheosis of this history and its accelerant.
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He'd always had strong opinions, but America was an accelerant.
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What are a couple ways you expect for 5G to be an accelerant to Alibaba's cloud business and an accelerant to the commerce business, both in person and maybe offsite, at home, on the phone.
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Police said a car was set on fire with an accelerant.
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Mr. Trump's election, though, seems to have worked as an accelerant.
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Religious fundamentalism can act as a precursor and accelerant to violence.
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The items often were set ablaze with jet fuel as the accelerant.
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Fund selling has been the accelerant of the last month's price collapse.
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Chambers, 19, was doused with an accelerant and set on fire Dec.
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Under President Obama, the Republican Party has transformed — Trump is an accelerant.
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Arguably, Trump's anger was an accelerant for the sales of the book.
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It was the single biggest accelerant of the use of video online.
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With improvements in back-office operations, a digital accelerant to crisis looms.
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Western Australian police confirmed four cars were set on fire using an accelerant.
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And for the restaurants we work with, a recession could be an accelerant.
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While dysfunction and chaos can be contagious, President Donald Trump is an accelerant.
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It's not a drag on our business, it's a huge accelerant to our business.
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Sugar is flammable and provides a cheap accelerant, while potassium chlorate is an explosive.
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China's scale has become the greatest accelerant to mainstream adoption of the next-generation vehicle.
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"The technology is an accelerant," says Margaret O'Mara, a historian at the University of Washington.
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But his presidency has been an accelerant, and the consequences of it are yet untold.
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For hate groups, the internet was the long-hoped-for accelerant to spread their message.
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He then doused both cars in accelerant fluid and lit his own car on fire.
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His internal well-being is a bonfire, and fame seems only to be an accelerant.
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He said there was also a strong odor of lighter fluid or some other accelerant.
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His internal well-being is a bonfire, and fame seems only to be an accelerant.
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To add to that momentum, Gelsinger considered the Dell deal a potential accelerant to VMware's growth.
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President Trump has poured accelerant on it, but this has been a while in the making.
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But the law's financial construct clearly served as an accelerant for insurers attempting to mitigate losses.
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Investigators said she had been doused with an accelerant at the scene and left to die.
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But the accelerant comes from the Republican Party taking its libertarianism to a crude, nihilistic endpoint.
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I'd argue that this validation is actually an accelerant as traditional retail struggles to keep up.
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Accelerant: Peloton attracts premier talent from top fitness studios to exclusively teach within the Peloton ecosystem.
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A platform designed for connecting people turned out to be a remarkable accelerant for political divisions.
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Social media is one of those institutions, and in my view, is clearly a polarization accelerant.
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Their interests, in fact, may serve as an accelerant to confront the Iranian threat more aggressively.
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Nic Robertson, international diplomatic editor, London President Trump is an accelerant in the changing world order.
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Trump's presidency is a consequence of this trend, but it's also become an accelerant of it.
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Buckner allegedly started the fire with an accelerant in the den of the home, Crump tells PEOPLE.
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Another important accelerant: M&A, says Tom Wehmeier, a principal at Atomico and its head of research.
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"Trade issues act as an accelerant to, not the primary cause of, other cyclical headwinds," Zezas writes.
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The proper federal government role is to try to be an accelerant of all these unique attributes.
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WOW IT'S BEEN AN ACCELERANT FOR THEM AND YOU CAN SEE SAME STORE SALES ACROSS THE BOARD.
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Women still look to magazines (whatever form that may take) for their cues; the internet is an accelerant.
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Grass-roots activists share in the blame, of course, but the largest single accelerant is the mainstream media.
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"They approached the vehicle, I understand, the vehicle still had an amount of accelerant, fuel, perhaps," he said.
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Mr. Comey remained silent over the weekend, perhaps not wanting to add accelerant to the raging political fires.
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Then we bombed Russia's ally, Serbia, pouring accelerant on growing mistrust and hostility between the two nuclear powers.
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It's a worrying risk accelerant for political violence — that is, violence, intimidation, and threats used toward political ends.
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A price on carbon would be a welcome backdrop and accelerant to other decarbonization and just-transition policies.
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Buybacks work best when stocks are coming out of a bear market because the buybacks act as an accelerant.
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A weaker dollar is acting as an accelerant to the bull flames, although its impact should not be overstated.
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These were all evident before the coronavirus pandemic, but the current economic chaos looks set to be an accelerant.
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Hello Neighbor's experience reflects the rise of video sites like YouTube as an accelerant for the video game business.
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A victory in the State of Mexico would provide an outsize accelerant to the party's national ambitions, analysts said.
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Disputes over aesthetics and politics frequently devolved — thanks to the accelerant of social media — into shaming and outright censoriousness.
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The media loves these stories and with every quarterly performance stumble, their coverage acts as an accelerant of future outflows.
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It has identified a certain transcription factor that acts like an accelerant to produce the enzyme that Solugen's process requires.
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His presidency is a product of this erosion, but it is also proving to be an accelerant of the process.
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In both cases, the top priority was growth, and lax security proved to be a powerful accelerant to that growth.
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MDMA may be acting like a sort of psychological accelerant, hastening changes in the brain that lay the groundwork for recovery.
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Someone had poured accelerant on him and lit him afire, burning his arms, fingers and legs, police said at the time.
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He had with him a bottle of accelerant and what appeared to be a small green kitchen knife, according to police.
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Earlier this year, I wrote that we are drifting apart, that Trump is an accelerant in the populist politics of division.
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Those victories have been widely viewed as the accelerant in a greater appreciation of women's team sports in the United States.
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Amazon makes devices like the Kindle and the Echo as an accelerant to its content businesses and its Prime subscription program.
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And so I think there's different things that create probably more of an accelerant of slowing down that we've seen other times.
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As the proposal took another step forward, Republicans were candid about what appeared to be the accelerant behind the effort: political imperative.
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When she arrived, the body was still burning with a blue flame, a sign that an accelerant had been used, she said.
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If climate change is an accelerant of flooding, as many scientists expect, it will only make that already dubious decision look worse.
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Our headphones are about to change dramatically, and Microsoft just put an accelerant into the furnace of change with its new Surface Headphones.
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After finding the girl's remains, investigators began probing whether an accelerant such as lye was used to burn her body, court records show.
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Dillon also allegedly sprayed a 61-year-old homeless man with an unknown accelerant that he then ignited, setting the man on fire.
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Above all of it, the looming election has served as an accelerant to the distrust that exists in the conference on the issue.
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The FARC has vowed to halt its involvement in the drug trade, which has been an accelerant of the conflict in recent decades.
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After stabbing Mr. Patouhas, he stepped outside and threw an accelerant into the store, setting Mr. Patouhas and the other man on fire.
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He continues his endless attacks on the Federal Reserve as the accelerant of the coming slowdown, taking no responsibility for his own actions.
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Fire marshals sent a dog to scour the building for evidence of an accelerant that may have been used to start the blaze.
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" Here is what famous statements would have sounded like if including the contemporary vocal accelerant: "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, real quick, creeps along.
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Moynihan, via Bloomberg: The bottom line: Moynihan's big fear is that leveraged loans could become an economic recession's accelerant, rather than its initial spark.
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Escondido Police Lieutenant Chris Lick told the Tribune and other media that it appeared that a chemical accelerant was used to set the fire.
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Although many factors contributed to the Syrian conflict and the diaspora that followed, extended and prolonged drought added additional accelerant to the smoldering conditions.
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Many others are rightly determined to prove to that group how wrong they are, or at least not to add accelerant to the wildfire.
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Her body had burn marks consistent with "an accelerant or flammable substance being applied to the body, then lit on fire," the document said.
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On Tuesday, an Escondido Police Department official, Lt. Chris Lick, said in a phone interview that the fire had been set with an accelerant.
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Mr. Trump is both an accelerant and a reflection of this longstanding erosion of the civic spaces that mediate between individuals and the state.
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As the Mohawk slowly roast the tragic and handsome priest, Roger barrels through the village, tossing accelerant onto the pyre to end it faster.
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Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency, is expected to get a brief reprieve on Monday from high winds that have acted as a dangerous accelerant.
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If population growth is waning and credit no longer works as an accelerant, the problem may not be just with our tools, but our goals.
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"Some of the dreaming that is going on is just waiting for an accelerant, and that's what I think Amazon would be," Dr. Fuller said.
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Casting doubt on the women who come forward with their stories, as Trump and Moore have, acts as an accelerant of the current political flames.
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According to CNN affiliate WLS, a man threw three bottles filled with accelerant at the Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel Congregation and at an adjacent community center.
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"It appears that an individual had climbed up onto the roof and intentionally set the fire utilizing some type of accelerant," police said in their statement.
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After the election of President Bush, though, he revised that forecast five years forward because, he argued, Bush's policies of extreme militarism would be an accelerant.
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It is the "ultimate FOMO accelerant," Kelly said as it encourages customers to move from product to product more quickly and stay ahead of the trends.
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Despite the attempt, the blog post, which was picked up by major news outlets, acted as an accelerant for the stories that would publish the next day.
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The only communication from Mr. Braid in the police file explains how he tested a piece of rug padding that he concluded had traces of an accelerant.
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By the end of the year, Pentagon leaders assessed that the Mehdi army had replaced al Qaeda as "the most dangerous accelerant" of sectarian violence in Iraq.
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Looking back on it now, it revealed a lot about the accelerant of social media, race, and gender, and how all three intersect with cults of celebrity.
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And the trend never would have taken off without the accelerant of social media, which allows intimate personal moments to be shared with a vast, faceless audience.
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Much like Cameron Todd Willingham, investigators speedily judged it to be arson — finding supposed evidence of a liquid accelerant like gasoline or lighter fluid in Tony's bedroom.
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Firelighters or any kind of accelerant Liquid accelerants are never a good idea, it's all too easy for the fire to travel up the stream of liquid.
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"Whenever a movie overperforms to this degree — becomes a tent pole — there is some kind of cultural accelerant at play," said Toby Emmerich, president of Warner Bros.
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His words have also become an accelerant on the playing field of sports, in his public criticism of black athletes he deems to be unpatriotic or ungrateful.
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The men set a fire — Mr. Bentley said they might have used baby oil as an accelerant — before emergency response teams used tear gas to quell the uprising.
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"It's an accelerant and a belief that there is no glass ceiling for Israeli companies," said Eisenberg, who also manages the portfolio of U.S. VC Benchmark in Israel.
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White House Memo Like an assignment editor at a tabloid newspaper, the president poured accelerant on a negative story and got it trending on Twitter and cable news.
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No. I think money is an accelerant to finding your true self, so if you're bent to be a jerk, you're going to be a jerk just faster.
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Alibaba had proven unable to get HK approval for its governance structure the last time around but, if successful now, it could pour accelerant onto HK's tech listings business.
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Passing the updated and constructive trade treaty that covers the $1.2 trillion annual exchange of goods between Mexico, Canada and the U.S. would be just that sort of accelerant.
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The chasm between their answers reflects the ways in which the accelerant of the internet is rejiggering pop stardom in what feels like something much faster than real time.
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While police initially thought a downed power line was the source of a fire around Bernard's remains, subsequent inspection determined an accelerant had been used, leading investigators toward foul play.
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Schreiber, who has a prison record, confessed he set the fire but would not reveal what accelerant he used, the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office said in its arrest affidavit.
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Just as in Vietnam, the US military occupation of Afghanistan in this century has only served as an accelerant for what might be thought of as political and military arson.
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The event is known as "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" and it strikes me, as another drop hits and more gaseous accelerant ignites above the stage, as pretty accurate branding.
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The fire, which police say was started using an accelerant, shot out of the roof and through broken windows as black smoke rose upward and outward, rolling into the night air.
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Using the lens of history to understand the first year of the Trump presidency shows us how it is both a symptom of and accelerant to the breakdown in American politics.
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Media reported the man's car contained gas canisters while New South Wales state assistant police commissioner Dennis Clifford said there appeared to have been some kind of fire accelerant in it.
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The police said James Patrick Dillon, 23, stabbed a neighbor in the head, doused a man in accelerant and set him on fire, and fatally stabbed Mr. Patouhas in his shop.
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The reality is that each acts as an accelerant on the other, exacerbating a situation these politicians candidly describe in amicus briefs before the US Supreme Court as a Montague vs.
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The policies of President Obama have added accelerant to the fire, with the far left unhappy he did not go far enough, and the right convinced he radically changed the United States.
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The Miller County Sheriff's Office alleges in a probable cause statement that Murray used an accelerant to start the December 11 fire at the Iberia, Missouri, home she shared with her husband.
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Of course, it will take years for a wall to be built and new enforcement agents to be hired, but that delay is a potential accelerant to border crossings, not a deterrent.
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Investigators believe the suspect used an accelerant to ignite two of the vehicles -- and the flames spread to the 3rd car ... which were all located in Pettis' driveway, according to FOX 6.
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Lenders should also no longer load up on bonds from their home countries so much because the link between banks and states had acted like a "fire accelerant" during the bloc's crisis.
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"These new voters will have a major impact in the Democratic nomination process in many states," he wrote: The desire for change in general is huge, and Trump is a powerful accelerant.
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President Trump, however, has poured accelerant on this system, collapsing it with no strategy for a new 21st century global structure that protects national interests, preserves U.S. leadership and reflects American values.
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The Russians and others didn't start the fire; they are merely providing an accelerant to the conflagration begun by rabid partisans and fueled by the economics of cable news and social media.
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They are also a potential accelerant of the Arctic sea ice's rapid melt, since soot from forest fires that far north can be transported northeastward and deposited on sea ice in the Arctic.
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The HFC agreement buys the planet more time by removing a near-term accelerant of global warming The agreement marks the third milestone in international climate change diplomacy in just the past month.
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The fire had been confined to this one room, even though it was fed by an accelerant — gasoline, poured on the floor from a container that had been carried up from the garage.
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In the 45-minute long press conference, Champion also addressed one of the most persistent rumors of the case: that accelerant had been poured down Chambers' throat before she was set on fire.
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He was taken to a nearby hospital with gunshot wounds to his leg; the lieutenant and inspector, who sustained chemical burns from the accelerant, were taken to a different hospital in stable condition.
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For accelerant, Mr. Rush squirts napalm into the grill, while, because of a chemical pollutant upstream, the nearby river runs red, cheered on by the local high schoolers, whose team color it is.
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Mr. Obama's Clean Power Plan appeared at a propitious moment, acting as a kind of accelerant to the big utilities that were already moving away from coal for reasons of economy and efficiency.
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And yet, it's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore how online hatred and message board screeds are bleeding into the physical world — and how social platforms can act as an accelerant for terroristic behavior.
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But there's another reason too: The biggest accelerant of EV adoption won't just be home WEVC, it will be WEVC infrastructure, and China, unlike the US, is still making big, bold infrastructure investments.
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"I'm just the accelerant," the Queen's second son, 56, tells PEOPLE of his Pitch@Palace initiative, amid the bustle – and a little light-hearted hustle – at St. James's Palace in London on Monday evening.
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The conflagration erupted in Kyoto Animation's three-story studio in Kyoto's Fushimi area after the attacker walked into the building's front door and sprayed an unidentified liquid accelerant, Kyoto police and fire officials said.
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When they closed their Woodstock '99 set with "Killing in the Name," they didn't do anything as staid as kneel before an American flag — they doused one in accelerant and set it on fire.
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Despite the emotionality of af Klint's work — and of rainbows in general — Alexandra says there's another, more mundane reason why these colors are having a moment: Instagram, the accelerant of basically every design trend.
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Pelosi and Mnuchin have spoken three times this week in an effort to jumpstart stalled budget and debt ceiling negotiations, and multiple sources say the new default projections have provided an accelerant for those efforts.
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The man, James Patrick Dillon, refused to drop a knife and was spewing accelerant from a Corona bottle at a police lieutenant and an inspector when they shot him several times around 23:261 p.m.
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Malinowski's death comes as the Ohio Senate is on the precipice of passing Judy's Law, which seeks to increase penalties in cases like hers that leave the victim permanently disfigured through the use of an accelerant.
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On Monday, she walked to a bus shelter just outside the Nauru camp, doused herself with an accelerant and set herself on fire, said Pamela Curr, an advocate at the Asylum Seeker Resource Center in Melbourne.
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"Human-to-human transmission will be (the) tipping point, and mass movements in China during CNY (Chinese New Year) may be an unwelcomed accelerant," said Vishnu Varathan, Asia head of economics and strategy at Mizuho Bank.
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Actually, the culprit was likely the Slow Reveal, which encourages anything but: a syrupy accelerant in a bisected brass pineapple, the round belly of the bottom half balanced on the stiff fronds of the top half.
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"For Trump, at this point, social media isn't helping — it's an accelerant," said Bob Bauer, President Barack Obama's first White House counsel, who was known for his caution during his two-and-a-half-year West Wing tenure.
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So it was a nice treat for the senses as I stepped off of the bus one last time this season to be greeted by the cold, snow-filled air, thick with the smell of everyone's favourite arson accelerant.
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The police said he stabbed a neighbor in the head late Sunday morning; killed George Patouhas, a liquor store owner, in a knife attack a few hours later; and doused another man in accelerant and set him on fire.
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As successful as that show was, if you could somehow time-travel and drop it in the age of social media, everything about that show really is an accelerant to the kind of chatter that everybody is looking for.
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"It is akin to an arsonist adding an accelerant to a fire," Peter Hammer, the director of the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne State's law school, wrote in a 243 paper on the effects of competition in DPS.
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Hykeem Golson, 21, apparently fled the scene after allegedly using "accelerant and other materials" to set the puppy on fire in the parking lot of Grace United Methodist Church on Saturday, Richland County Sheriff's Department officials announced in a statement.
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"It took a full week to excavate Alice, whose fragile skull was meticulously stabilized with a specialized glue to solidify the fractured, mineralized bones, before an accelerant was applied to bond the structures," UC Merced said in a news release.
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The California Republican, Free Telegraph, Verrit, and other sites like them might not be peddling misinformation, but by using Facebook as an accelerant for partisan, inherently biased political commentary and passing it off as "news" they are further muddying some already turbid waters.
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New York (CNN)Two New York City cops were sprayed with an accelerant and burned on Sunday night in the final moments of a manhunt for a 23-year-old who went on a violent spree earlier in the day, authorities say.
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Key quote: The Girl Scouts told ABC, "The Boy Scouts' house is on fire ... Instead of addressing systemic issues of continuing sexual assault, financial mismanagement and deficient programming, BSA's senior management wants to add an accelerant to the house fire by recruiting girls."
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A tax would have to be extremely high to get some of these CCU products over the valley of death between lab and market — more targeted, sector-specific policies would also be needed — but even a modest tax would be a universal accelerant.
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"The more the world seems in disarray, especially with Trump as an erratic accelerant to that disarray, the more people seem to be looking for some return to normalcy and strong and steady leadership as opposed to erratic leadership," said a Biden adviser.
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Rather than serve as a deterrent, in Trump's case it appears to be an accelerant for the conduct that is almost certain to lead to his impeachment next week, the third time the House has ever sought removal of a president from office.
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It's been a major accelerant both in terms of being able to bring lots more information to bear on the map much more quickly, but also to bring maps to many more places of the world where traditionally no good digital map has yet existed.
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I think a lot of this is quite plausible; indeed its plausibility is one reason among many why I thought conservatives should resist the lure of Trump, lest he govern badly, alienate widely, and act as a kind of accelerant toward a Californian future.
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SYDNEY, Australia — A man was in serious condition Thursday night and receiving hospital treatment after setting himself aflame before trying to drive his car, laden with a fire accelerant, into a police station parking garage in the western suburb of Merrylands, police officials here said.
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The group of Muslim Bosniaks had been seized after an attack on the village of Koritnik and locked in a house that was set ablaze with an accelerant and explosives while Susnjar and other Bosnian Serb Army members shot at it to prevent anyone fleeing.
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The HFC agreement buys the planet more time by removing a near-term accelerant of global warming, with the hope that significant progress is made in cutting carbon dioxide emissions in the next decade or two under the Paris Climate Agreement, which goes into effect in November.
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At the time, the Pentagon said al-Sadr Shiite militia known as the Mahdi army had, quote, replaced al-Qaeda in Iraq as the most dangerous accelerant of potentially self-sustaining sectarian violence, and al-Sadr&aposs hatred towards America and its allies was well-documented.
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Six people were taken to hospital in critical condition after the 21-year-old suspect walked into a Melbourne branch of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and lit an accelerant, setting himself and the office on fire, Victoria Police said, adding the man was also in serious condition.
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This is new in how graduates view what defines a "good" tech job, and it suggests that while Trump may have been an accelerant to the movement, the fire won't be extinguished by something as neat and clean as the result of a single election in 2020.
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Kaneisha lays bare the skewed logic and rationale of a therapy that places the onus for repairing generations of racism on Black people and deliberately traumatizes them with kinky master-slave scenes (despite the therapists' claims that safely controlled aggression is "an accelerant to radical breakthroughs").
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" Angus Deaton, the Princeton economist who, with his colleague Anne Case, has documented a near-unprecedented rise in so-called "deaths of despair" for middle-aged white Americans, said opioids have become "an accelerant" to midlife mortality — "a set of drugs that added fuel to the fire.
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Then, the razor will be used to strip the flag, the match will be used to give the flag a flag's retirement, and the bullet is said to be used for either an accelerant for burning the flag or for the troop to use on him or her self.
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"The Fed's determined to keep tightening, and if we get the promised rate hike in December followed then by three more rate hikes next year no matter how weak the economy might get, I'm betting that will [be] an accelerant to what could be a serious economic slowdown," Cramer continued.
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"Turns out it's less of a problem than the doomsayers thought, which is why shorting's been such a bust, with the short-sellers acting as a natural accelerant for the upside when they cover their stocks ever since the trade war with China first flared up six months ago," Cramer said.
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And you also need to see how the video itself, far from being a means to achieving consensus, is an amazing accelerant of controversy, because everyone who watches can pick up on a different detail and convince themselves that they're seeing the whole tru — Are you really doing this, Ross?
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At the trial, prosecutors, citing the testimony of fire experts, argued that the charring patterns and glass fracturing indicated a deliberately set fire, and that the arsonist had started the fire in at least eight spots in the cabin using a mixture of home fuel oil and another accelerant, according to news reports.
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They had used some kind of accelerant, they must have, so that when the three children touched their torches to it (angling their bodies away, keeping the greatest distance between themselves and the fire) the flames leaped up the wood, from the base to the ridiculous crown the whole frog blazed up.
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"Similar type of accelerant, any type of incendiary device that could have possibly been planted there, and then link in the houses, what things could be found at what crime scene that could be linked to another, find out if there's a pattern and if there's somebody here who's a serial arsonist," Gagliano said.
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Shortly after the Post's huge story, Trump poured on accelerant with remarks that were a quick coda to a statement on the opioid crisis that he delivered at his Summer White House at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.. A reporter asked if he had any comment on the reports about North Korea's nuclear capabilities.
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The chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s and a leading organizer of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches (on top of so much else), 79-year-old Lewis is a civil rights icon, and for more than half a century has been an accelerant of some of the noblest parts of American history.
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With all these catastrophic scenarios now daily facts of life, the specter of climate upheaval—long held forth as the urgent, and quite possibly final, imperative to overcome tribal political divisions and the human race's retrograde hoarding instincts—is acting as an accelerant of global conflict, plunging nationalist powers into a regressive rivalry to seize scarce resources and deny access to putative outsiders of all descriptions.
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The new homepage message ends by directing the reader to "see what we did with the data" with a link to the following YouTube video: In case you can't bring yourself to click on a video with the BangBros logo in the corner: Yes, that appears to be a pile of hard drives having accelerant poured all over them, with some gusto, before someone clicks open a Zippo and sets that pile on fire.
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Where many technology critics see the rise of social media, some 15 years ago, as a vast shift that ushered in the era of "filter bubbles" and tribal sorting, Klein describes it as less the original cause than an accelerant—especially insofar as it encouraged individuals to see all their beliefs and preferences, if only in brief but powerful moments of perceived threat, as potential expressions of a single underlying political identity.
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