Sentences with phrase «arm deal»

But things turn serious when word comes through that a major arms deal is about to go down.

It was gathered that the soldiers facing the court martial were accused offences such as illegal and unauthorized arms deals, human rights abuses and alleged murder.

Wives of Middle Eastern billionaires embroiled in arms deals gave money to Tory party a week before the general election

Free Fire follows a black market arms deal gone wrong in 1970s Boston as an IRA buyer (Cillian Murphy) and a South African gun runner (Sharlto Copley) end up in a gun fight in the middle of an abandoned warehouse, with both their sides exchanging shots, trying to get the money and attempting to make it out alive.

While the movie delivers some interesting insight into the world of arms dealing and even takes a few jabs at the Bush administration, it's never as effective as the films that it's clearly aping.

The contractor is also a prime beneficiary of the White House's defense budget increase, as well as new arms deals with the likes of Saudi Arabia: Lockheed's stock price has risen some 26 % over the past year, handily beating the S&P, while revenue jumped 17 % in 2016.

The continuing probe of the diverted funds meant for arms deal during the former administration took another level following the arrest of the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosu by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).

The Poly Group, a $ 40 billion state - owned enterprise, oversees activities ranging from arms dealing to an auction house that is the first in China to offer private sales and is rapidly promoting itself as a global brand Barbara Pollack

Human trafficking is tied with arms dealing as the second - largest criminal enterprise in the world, after drug dealing, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Bafarawa, who is standing trial in the ongoing arms deal corruption trial, code - named «Dasukigate», made this known to newsmen in Sokoto on Wednesday.

As is the element of criminal ineptitude, here demonstrated by the majority as two gangs converge in an abandoned Boston warehouse to negotiate an illegal arms deal circa the late»70s, only to have it go hopelessly (and hilariously) awry.

Set during the 1970s in the single location of a warehouse — «Just slightly bigger space than «Room,»» she told CBR with a laugh — an illicit arms deal takes a decidedly bullet - riddled turn.

A former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu, has absolved himself from being part of those who benefitted from $ 2.1 billion arms deal fund diverted by the embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

The world's nuclear enrichment programs should be under international control to prevent the development of nuclear weapons after the new arms deal with Iran expires in 10 to 15 years, said Frank von Hippel, a senior Princeton University research physicist and a former security advisor during the Clinton Administration.

However, rates may be more affected by fears surrounding the implosion of the Iran arms deal than today's economic releases.

Just too much support to the upside including Saudi - Russian arms deals, geopolitics and now...

Nigerians are now aware of the scam in the $ 2.1 billion arms deal movie, having seen that the amount those already charged to court were charged with is not more than N10 billion and $ 2.1 billion is over N600 billion.

The British government's record on arms deals is «disgraceful», the Liberal Democrat development spokesman has said.

He was the middleman who profited from Britain's biggest arms deal — «Al - Yamamah» — which involved the multi-billion-pound sale of fighters and warships to Saudi Arabia.

Based on actual events, OPEN SOURCE is a geopolitical thriller that follows Casey Shenk, a Savannah, Georgia, vending route driver with an insatiable curiosity, as he uncovers a black - market arms deal - gone - bad and the truth behind a high - level plot to shape world politics.

This is coming in the instance of the on - going arms deal investigation that has led to the arrest of the former national security adviser Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and his allies by the Department of State Security (DSS).

TOKYO / BERLIN, April 25 - In a fresh bid to win its first major foreign arms deal since World War Two, Japan is proposing its P - 1 submarine hunter for a French - German project to develop a marine surveillance aircraft, two Japanese government sources said.

A version of this article appears in print on September 20, 2015, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. and China Seek Arms Deal for Cyberspace.

Regarding the new Washington - Riyadh arms deal and probability of Saudi obstructionism in the 172nd OPEC meeting, he said: «We have not seen any such signs so far; what we have seen so far indicates that Saudis are keen on seeing an upward trend in the prices.»

District police lured Singh Tuesday night by setting up a false arms deal in the isolated, dense forest where Singh was hiding.

He also touched on Iran, calling the nuclear arms deal former President Obama struck with the country «the worst deal I've ever seen negotiated.»

The charges, relating to a multi-billion dollar arms deal, were dropped by the chief state prosecutor in a move that cleared the way for Zuma to be elected president.

The charges relate to a 30bn rand ($ 2.5 bn; # 1.7 bn) government arms deal in the late 1990s, before he became president.

In 1999, the South African government announced its largest - ever post-apartheid arms deal, signing contracts totalling 30bn rand ($ 5bn; # 2.5 bn) to modernise its national defence force

'' It is also clear, as has been shown so far by the outcome of the panel probing past arms deals, that the purchase of substandard weapons apparently resulted from the massive corruption that enveloped the deals, the kind of horrifying graft that saw the purchase of refurbished choppers that lacked rotors, or fighter jets that could not be deployed to the theatre of war because they were not up to par.

Responding to a statement that President Muhammadu Buhari ordered for his arrest over arms deal, the former NSA said: «I have never been invited formally or informally to appear before the panel.

In 2008, another Saudi royal, Prince Bandar, suggested «another 7/7» might be in the offing, unless the Serious Fraud Office called off an investigation into corrupt arms deals implicating several Saudi princes.

The Centre for Reform Education Initiative, CREI, has commended the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih over his honesty and uprightness in writing to the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, without anybody's prompting to explain his role in the $ 2.1 billion Arms deal saga.

Lord Tebbit has written a piece for the the Mail today rebuffing the judges who criticised the Government for dropping the SFO investigation into dodgy arms dealing:

Perhaps people mean the 1980s when Iran - Contra saw shady arms deals with Iran on side of the Atlantic, and Oregreave, Hillsborough and Westland on the other?

Cooper plays a legendary arms deal who becomes their best friend and mentor in getting their plan to go off without a hitch.

Their unraveling arms deal — mainly orchestrated by an IRA buyer played by Cillian Murphy — has gone terribly wrong; so has Sam Riley's cringe - inducing Boston -LRB-?)

Ironic that Bryne and Carnavale just co-starred side - by - side in Paul Feig's underwhelming Melissa McCarthy vehicle Spy as arms dealing peers and they here play another side to partners in crime as a husband and wife duo who must make room for Kroll when a failed business investment forces him out of the big city.

Based on a real - life rise - and - fall story of a pair of Miami bozos who fell into lucrative Afghanistan arms dealing, the film reunites former high - school buddies David (Miles Teller) and Efraim (Jonah Hill), currently on radically different life trajectories.

Efraim has started his own arms dealing business in Miami, and it's pretty successful, living off the crumbs of small military contracts that the major companies generally ignore.

LORD OF WAR is a black comedy that is also a troubling thriller, abut arms deals and mass murders.

At the heart of all of the war drama and arms dealing lingo is the relationship between Efraim and David.

Money flows but the biz is doomed from the beginning because neither of these guys understands the first thing about [illegal] arms dealing.

It now appears that Dell (DELL) will go private in what is being made out to be a strong arm deal of epic proportions.

Criminal Arms Dealing

Effectively, there's a meta - market emerging to demand legal arms dealing, early - stage innovation for products that can be scaled - up and put into play in the emerging conflict over legal services.