Sentences with phrase «about weapons of war»

«This is about weapons of war specifically designed to kill humans efficiently.»

Not exact matches

A little longer ago there was the murder of the abortion provider in Topeka, and who could forget that little war in Iraq (that we all know was about religion and oil, not weapons of mass destruction)

«All our talk about peace and the weapons of the spirit is meaningless unless we try in every way to embrace voluntary poverty and not work in any position, any job that contributes to war... We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family... And we will be considered fools for Christ.»

These studies make it clear that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war and, in particular, about three issues — the link between Iraq and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.

Studies show that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war in Iraq and especially about three issues — the link between Iraqu and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.

This discussion should be about expanding that ban to include other «assault» type weapons and weapons of war and has nothing to do with every fundiots fear of having their rifle taken away.

A primary objective of education today, in homes, in schools, and through the mass media of communication, should be the full and forceful dissemination of knowledge about the extreme destructiveness of modern weapons of war and about the awful consequences for everybody which would result from their use in any large - scale conflict.

Rules of war worked then about as well as now when it is the control of atomic weapons that is the desired goal of those who would make war more humane.

He asks you now to lay down all these your other weapons of war, and to hear what we can tell you about the love of God, our great Father, the only living God.»

Right now we are talking about a limited airstrike in retaliation for the use of weapons that have killed a very small fraction of the war dead.

Some persons perhaps, crushed by the burden of medical expenses, had no objection to a cold - war garrison state as such, yet they could wonder about a nation that spent far more on weapons than on health coverage.

Amidst the noise of the heated televised debates and the tearful (for some) farewell to this particular weapon, the old message that once Hemingway made about the hopelessness and futility of war was all but muted.

While she supported the Iraq War, during the Deputy Leadership campaign, she said that she would not have voted for it had she been in full possession of the facts, specifically about the lack of concrete evidence of weapons of mass destruction.

While we can talk in the abstract about «weapons» and «war,» focusing only on the logic of the argument, we often fail to begin from the correct assumptions about how war is presently fought.

This was at a time when the Foreign Office under William Hague was making a big fanfare about challenging rape as a weapon of war, but the Home Office was routinely deporting women seeking asylum who had endured this awful crime.

«It is a very expensive weapon system which was developed in the Cold War to meet the conditions of the Cold War which ended 17 years ago, and it is still capable of functioning fully for about another 15 years from now,» Mr Clarke said.

«Now you've got people out there — in my case we litigated for two years with the NRA — but who are unapologetic about saying that weapons of war don't belong on city streets.»

The survey, which also served as a fund - raising letter for the DNC, asks about such issues as the economy, environment, raising the federal minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, getting «weapons of war off our streets,» electoral reform, abortion rights, and gay and transgender rights.

Baldwin was the Times journalist who named the weapons expert as the secret source behind the BBC's claim that the Blair government had «sexed up» a dossier about Iraq's «weapons of mass destruction'to justify going to war against Saddam Hussein.

«You'd like to think that when Truman was deciding to use nuclear weapons and thinking about how many people would be killed and whether the decision would make the war even worse, some special voice of conscience was informing that decision,» Greene says.

But historians disagree on this, but I personally find it actually rather thrilling that someone of that age, 80 years old in 1954, could still be imaginative way after — It would've been great if he'd been more imaginative in the war but he still was taking imaginative action about nuclear weapons.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

«THE PEACEMAKER,» the first feature release by the Katzenberg - Geffen - Spielberg studio Dreamworks, is a big, expensive extravaganza about the danger of nuclear weapons, or the danger of terrorists, or the danger of violent wars being allowed to rage unchecked anywhere in the world.

Other shooters, from Gears of War to Halo are all about aim shoot, repeat, throw grenade, cover - so I find it odd to accuse the game of this, after all, the huge number of weapons and upgrades are an excellent feature.

One of the things the film is about is the use of media as a weapon: this war of propaganda between RBSS on one side and ISIS — with its slick Hollywood - style productions — on the other.

Read about how the job is done and the dangers of these weapons, 100 years after the end of the war.

And if our Mars observer would also have knowledge about the explosive population growth, about the weapons» power of destruction more and more perfected and about the division of humankind into a few political sides, he wouldn't probably forecast for us a future any brighter than that of a few rat societies being at war on a foodless boat» (p. 256).

And if our Mars observer would also have knowledge about the explosive population growth, about the weapons» power of destruction more and more perfected and about the division of humankind into a few political sides, he wouldn't probably forecast for us a future any brighter than that of a few rat societies being at war on a foodless boat»

Her memoir is a brilliant piece of investigative journalism that reveals the truth about growing up in suburban Denver during the Cold War: next - door Rocky Flats was a U.S. Department of Energy facility that churned out plutonium «pits» for thousands of nuclear weapons.

Especially after the 2016 American Presidential election and ongoing debates about regular citizens and automatic weapons of war.

The consequences of his choice won't be clear for decades, but it already is abundantly apparent in mid-2006 that the U.S. government went to war in Iraq with scant solid international support and on the basis of incorrect information — about weapons of mass destruction and a supposed nexus between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda's terrorism — and then occupied the country negligently.

Gears of War, in my opinion was always the franchise that offered the best non-traditional looking weapons for a game with a feel about them that was dark, gothic and yet futuristic all at the same time.

You can also swap ammo and weapons between characters and what's cool about Gears of War 3 is the introduction of a level system.

We are so hyped for all the new exotic weapon changes... once Hov is done talking about God of War.

Another of the great things about Battlefield 1 is that it stayed true to the kinds of weapons and vehicles that would have been available during the First World War, but that was also kind of limiting.

that in turn starting me thinking about what the world would be like if we spent the same amount of money promoting art and artist in this country as we do on weapons and war.....

Discharge of a nuclear weapon will always be considered to be war, or a war - like act, as will just about any nuclear related loss of any kind.

Keller's overview of the challenges posed by fully autonomous weapons concludes, «If war is made to seem impersonal and safe, about as morally consequential as a video game, I worry that autonomous weapons deplete our humanity.

They say «it's too soon to talk about getting weapons of war out of our communities.

Given the unlimited downside of nuclear war and what we now know about the near - disasters of Cold War brinkmanship, it certainly suggests focus on the goal of avoiding escalating crises involving nuclear weapons, and this goal has vast consequences for America's whole approach to Chiwar and what we now know about the near - disasters of Cold War brinkmanship, it certainly suggests focus on the goal of avoiding escalating crises involving nuclear weapons, and this goal has vast consequences for America's whole approach to ChiWar brinkmanship, it certainly suggests focus on the goal of avoiding escalating crises involving nuclear weapons, and this goal has vast consequences for America's whole approach to China.