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Involving the use of dynamite.
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The short note by R . R . Hunt read at the last meeting , relative to destroying snags by dynamitic charges , has led me to bring this subject again before the members, as I believe an alteration in the manner of firing the charges, which was carried out by the fuse, may lead to more comprehensive working in this matter, with more certainty, safety, and economy.
And two days later: There have been more attempts at explosions discovered. Dynamitic portmanteaus of evidently American origin have been found at Charing Cross and Paddington Stations.
Explosive; volatile.
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The public that had reacted strongly to his “Editor's Study" could not be shaken by the polite statement of his social radicalism. His important essays on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity – which Howells thought were “terribly dynamitic" and which Walter H. Page felt hesitant to publish – finally went off "like wet firecrackers."
In this article he urges the community to develop the "dynamitic element" and agitate for their civil rights, which, according to Fortune, "are all such as affect the whole people, and are regulated by them in their collective capacity as a government."
Adjective
Characterized by movement or change; dynamic.
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The punctuality of news writing and reading—its “dynamitic” potential—is distinct from the timelessness of fictive discourse, which seeks to suspend a reader's sense of duration, the better to seduce the reader into the world of its text.
A dynamitic schedule is built with the following criteria: * Customer satisfaction: with the reduced patient length of stay for the improved satisfaction level. * Resource utilization: through balancing each unit work load and total time for the improved efficiency and utilization. * Employee performance: by the measure of ratio of patents stay and staff working hours.
The government's restrictive policies towards civil society does not detract from Chinese NGOs' roles in opening up the political field and expanding civil society over the years in a dynamitic interaction with the state, as well as constituting an effective force in tackling specific issues in their campaigns.