Sentences with phrase «armaments industry»

Nearly 6 decades ago, President Eisenhower in his 1961 farewell address to the nation, in which the president famously warned of the danger to the nation of a growing armaments industry, referred to as a «military - industrial complex,» and talked about the risks posed by a scientific - technological elite.

If this becomes firm policy I feel that it offers a way forward that will circumvent the fears of «Ex-Labour»: rather than receive funding from «loony - left» Trade Unions Labour will be able to attract donations from the armaments industry and related security contractors.

«I, General de Gaulle, currently in London, invite the officers and the French soldiers who are located in British territory or who might end up here, with their weapons or without their weapons, I invite the engineers and the specialised workers of the armament industries who are located in British territory or who might end up here, to put themselves in contact with me.

In 1867, he patented this mixture Dynamite, which, with its subsequent improvements and variations, was widely adopted in construction, mining, and armament industries.

Not exact matches

Avoids investment in industries and companies that produce goods harmful to health, society or the environment e.g. chemicals, tobacco, armaments.

Global warming alarmists (many of them the same who predicted a New Ice Age in the 1970s) ignore, or evade, such awkward facts as the greatly increased CO2 production worldwide for 30 years after 1941, when heavy industry increased immensely for armaments in WWII, and for rebuilding and consumer goods like cars in the postwar boom in the Americas, Europe and Asia — while global temperatures simultaneously fell.

The greatest surge in manmade CO2 (plus methane, ethane, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, and many more so - called greenhouses gases) occurred from 1940, as the industrialized world experienced an explosive growth in (95 % coal - fired) heavy industry, first for armaments in WWII, then infrastructure and industrial rebuilding and consumer durables (cars, refrigerators etc.) in the post war boom.

On the other hand, Ilyushun Industries must have simply had to make armaments for Stalin and wasn't really interested in serving its stockholders as the primary reason for its being as Krupp Industries in Hitlers Third Reich was: serving the stockholders and screw Hitler, was their motto - right?

And the old religions are creating new sins: http://www.3news.co.nz/Fossil-fuels-An-industry-of-sin/tabid/1160/articleID/311233/Default.aspx «Fossil fuels: An industry of sin» «The church already makes an effort not to invest in industries it sees as unethical, such as pornography, gambling, tobacco and armaments.