Sentences with phrase «against small arms»

In a test conducted in 2017, the 1 ″ thick plate performed impressively against small arms bullets and managed to get NIJ Level IV certification.

Not exact matches

A small group (the fighters never numbered over a thousand) denied the legitimacy of British rule over the Land of Israel and took up arms against the empire.

In Seattle's last home game, against Kansas City on Oct. 8, four players — three Chiefs and one Seahawk — suffered small puncture wounds in their arms and legs.

Just taking these small steps can help arm yourself and your family against an illness while you're away, so you can worry about more important things like choosing between swimming in the ocean or the pool

Indeed, it may be true that no amount of small arms could be useful against modern - day bombers and tanks.

Another major stride of the administration, the statement stated, is the Trans National Organized Crime where the President reportedly got partnership with regional allies in the fight against the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons.

This machine consists of a padded stool to sit on and a small frame with two padded side arms to rest your forearms and elbows against.

Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)

Trying to suck up to his Roman guest, Severus stages a re-creation of one of Corvus» military victories — yet another miniature — in the city's amphitheatre, pitting a small band of unarmored gladiators (representing the tribesmen Corvus massacred) against a larger group armed with military weapons and shields.

Newton Knight did not defect to the Union Army but took arms against other Southern soldiers together with a small army of both white radicals and enslaved African - Americans.

Families will also not want to miss the jet - propelled, gas - fuelled prehistoric nautilus, a primitive octopus in a spiral shell, the cuttlefish, a captivating type of mollusc which can change colour to give itself the perfect camouflage against any background, or the teeny tiny Atlantic Long Arm Octopus, a small sea creature with arms longer than its 90 millimetre body!

I laid my head against your arm; my bed felt small and safe, and then it was morning.

Indeed, Evolve blends the cooperative and competitive sides of multiplayer action, pitting one extremely powerful monster against four well - armed, but very small and smashable hunters that can work together to take it down.

There's a story I recall about some famous and brilliant mathematician — perhaps Norbert Wiener — who rarely took his nose out of a book and who didn't like to waste time: he would read while walking to and from the classroom (or perhaps his office) but have his arm out such that with a small part of his (very big) brain he could count the doorframes as they were ticked off against his hand; at the right count, his wrist would stiffen, and with his arm as a lever, rotate himself into the room still reading.

If international justice fails against «criminal activity by lightly armed thugs deployed from small boats and fishing vessels,» it will be hard for it to deter more formidable wrongdoers.

When a buyer's body language shows that their arms are tucked up against their body, worse yet, arms crossed against their chest, shoulders pulled inward, you can tell that a buyer feels that the house is small and unwelcoming.