Sentences with phrase «as a weapon in»

The first, the Economic Opportunity Loan, was devised in 1964 as a weapon in Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty.

Fox responded to Peters» charges in a statement: «Ralph Peters is entitled to his opinion despite the fact that he's choosing to use it as a weapon in order to gain attention.

Gas supplies have been used as a weapon in the conflict, as Russian threatens to cut off gas to Ukraine as a shaky ceasefire remains in place in east Ukraine.

So we have gotten to the point that public outcry against the use of rape as a weapon in war can be viewed as helping spread the very thing it is trying to fight.

They are using data and connectivity as weapons in their businesses and are returning value to shareholders with both clean - and tech - enabled solutions.

If we are not misinterpreting something, Beijing has hinted in veiled terms at possibly deploying its fairly tight control over the non-convertible currency's exchange rate as a weapon in the ongoing trade dispute with the US.

The militant atheist Richard Dawkins uses science as a weapon in his war against religion.

Is it not all too common to find people using the Bible as a weapon in their own particular cause quite irresponsibly?

For him, mystery can be hoarded as a weapon in his arsenal of deceit, as a spiritual poison gas meant to blind true vision and stifle true thought.

There is NO need to respect a man who is using personal attacks as a weapon in a game of football.

I learned some things about my players, how we can play on the counterattack and that we can use that as a weapon in the future but I am not more happy because we beat the club I love so much.»

They fight over who is going to have custody, they use the kids as weapons in a war of words, and they do their best to poison their children's minds against the other parent.

Somehow the conversation turned to the spork, and it turns out the real reason it was introduced was because there were many documented cases of the plastic knife being used as a weapon in some troubled schools.

He also said that it appeared some Republicans agreed «we need to remove default as a weapon in budget negotiations.»

«I definitely think that discretionary funds will be wielded as a weapon in the fight for endorsements,» said one Democratic Council member, who, like nearly a dozen others who spoke to DNAinfo.com New York, asked for anonymity to avoid angering Quinn.

In a paper published today in Scientific Reports, researchers at the University of California, Riverside show how Argentine ants use chemical secretions as weapons in their interactions with harvester ants, which are native to California.

Most of the antibiotics used to fight illness today were devised by soil microbes, which employ them as weapons in the competition for resources and survival.

Go back and watch the fight choreography in the Raimi films, then contrast with the way Spider - Man uses his webs as a weapon in this one.

Bleeding Cool has a brief report about a possible action sequence in «Man of Steel» where Superman «breaks apart a building and uses the building itself as a weapon in some kind of «super martial art» fashion.»

The manipulation of illusion is arguably the auteur mark of Nolan, who played with the idea of the manipulation of fear as a weapon in Batman Begins, the practical purpose of dream sleep in his remake of Insomnia, and of course of identity as fluid, ephemeral, and dangerously malleable in Memento and Following.

Jennifer Lawrence is a Russian dancer - turned spy trained to use her body as a weapon in the first trailer for the thriller Red Sparrow.

Giant book publisher Hachette is accusing Amazon of delaying deliveries of some of its books as a weapon in contract negotiations.

The crafting looks great in Fallout 4, especially with the home - made weapons, which are almost as post-apocalyptic chic as the weapons in the Metro games.

Connor Kenway can be seen sporting dual pistols, a bow and arrow, and a tomahawk — all which have been officially announced as weapons in the game.

With rabid dogs, haunted houses and runaway tires all trying to stop you from doing your papery duty, you toss newspapers to houses on either side of the street; you'll even get the chance to wield the papers as a weapon in order to save a baby in a runaway carriage or stop an armed robbery in order to become a paper - delivering hero.

I'm guessing we see fewer scythes as weapons in western MMOs because it's more ingrained in our culture that they don't actually make for very good weapons.

The Tau guns are very bland, and even the Imperial weaponry that you pick up lacks the same punch as the weapons in a game like Halo.

The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War.

Others before her, like Serge Guilbaut, have seen abstraction as a weapon in the Cold War, although its proponents in the arts were hardly Cold Warriors.

Using mixed media, including ceramic slip, concrete, and found materials, Phoenix transforms everyday objects that have been used as weapons in specific hate crime cases.

-LSB-...] Dunlap defined «lawfare» as the use of the law and the legal process as a weapon in modern warfare, either to achieve a military objective or to deny an objective to the enemy.

After the shooting at their school, the Parkland students refused to give up their story, leveraging the media as megaphones, with their cell phones as weapons in a battle that suddenly struck home.

Put another way: The Ecoxbt could be used as a weapon in a pinch and never miss a beat.

A parent should never use a child as a weapon in the spousal conflict.

Therefore, we caution you not to publicly label high - conflict people in your life, not to tell people you think they have high - conflict personalities, nor to use this information as a weapon in personal relationships.

Professional psychology and the family courts are allowing, and indeed rewarding, parents who use their child as a weapon in the divorce.

Children are not weapons, children should never be used as weapons in their parents» spousal conflicts.

Using the child as a weapon in the spousal conflict is extremely bad parenting and is extremely destructive to the child.

The presence of these three symptoms in the child's symptom display represents definitive diagnostic evidence that the child is being used by the allied parent as a weapon in the spousal conflict.

A treatment - focused assessment protocol identifies when children are being used as weapons in the spousal conflict.

If you're ready to move on, and won't bring up his cheating as a weapon in future arguments, then you should stay together.

When time and money is so commonly used as a weapon in divorce situations, the «ABC's»: Aligning Goals, Following the Best Interests Standard & Controlling Controllables.

Leave the Kids Out of It: A narcissist spouse may be bent on using children as a weapon in your divorce.

Not exact matches

The ranking officer is the team leader, the weapons sergeant knows just about every weapon in the world, the communications sergeant tees up ordnance or extract, and the medics can take lives as quickly as saving them.

The officer orders the suspect to «get on the ground,» but does not fire his weapon as he closes in on the man to take him into custody.

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

But that story is about what to do after a nuclear weapon blows up by surprise, such as in a terrorist attack — the goal is to limit exposure to radioactive fallout that arrives minutes after a detonation.

President Donald Trump hailed the U.S. - led intervention in Syria as «perfectly executed,» adding that the military campaign to degrade Bashar Assad's chemical weapons capability had accomplished its goals.

The adoption by banks of XRP is critical to the growth of Ripple — which has described it as a «strategic weapon «-- and to the value of the currency, which currently has a market cap of about $ 42 billion, and has swung wildly since it shot up to nearly $ 4 in early January (it is now worth around $ 1.07).

The U.S. - led airstrikes, which U.S. President Donald Trump described as «perfectly executed,» came after the likely use of chemical weapons in an attack by the Syrian regime on the town of Douma earlier this month.