Sentences with phrase «as ammunition by»

He has certainly had no problem getting them published, although their subject matter can't be called skeptical in a strict sense (but have been used as ammunition by skeptics).

As a so called ex Arsenal legend, naively Merson doesn't seem to recognise the gravitas his words are held in and used as ammunition by those who support rival clubs.

Not exact matches

The admission may provide further ammunition for a recent Malaysian government crackdown on foreign banks trading in the ringgit in offshore market, seen by bankers as an attempt to curb a devaluation of the currency.

As discussed above, the eurozone has more ammunition today to respond to potential contagion but a favorable view of European equities is also supported by the gradual escalation of institutional integration that is ongoing in Europe.

If I played the same game as you and took the number of Muslims killed by American ammunition, bombs, cluster bombs, missiles, sanctions, depleted uranium, etc., etc. and divided that into numbered points featuring the victims in groups of 50, 60, or 100, I'd be giving you a MUCH longer list of Muslim victims of America than the list of victims of Islamic terrorism that you provided to us here.

«But God is not honored by infighting, and this book is not intended as ammunition is anyone's battle.

As for advocates of «intelligent design» — the media - savvy group that has brought its ideas to school boards and courtrooms — they aren't even worth a mention by AiG, which makes abundant references to Darwin himself at the museum in the course of doling out ammunition with which to attack him.

Maybe Dorsey is asking for too much but if Ireland gains picks by trading back, he can then use those as ammunition to pull the trigger on the Albert trade without losing any picks.

He is proud, too, that rifles made by the back - alley ballistician can now be bought in such far places as Bangkok and Léopoldville, Alaska and Ireland, along with ammunition to fit.

In the meantime, some on the Left are having fun with Para Bellum's name, which as Gawker noted today, the new tech venture shares with 9 mm ammunition designed for the German Luger pistol often used by Nazis in war movies.

A non-binding resolution on lead ammunition, adopted by an international wildlife conference, has been described as a blunt, ineffective and unnecessary instrument by the UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).

«Even as crime has declined significantly in the city over the past several years, large capacity ammunition magazines are still being used by violent street gangs,» the LAPD chief said.

A Former National Security Coordinator, Kofi Bentum Quantson, has described as worrying the seizure of arms and ammunition in recent times by the security agencies.

The army spokesman also disclosed that five motorcycles as well as five rounds of 7.62 mm special ammunition belonging to the fleeing bandits were recovered by the troops on Wednesday.

His claim that unemployment will fall rather than rise in the course of this Parliament is based on the OBR assessment, rapidly rushed out to give ammunition to contest the anticipated Harman attack (incidentally providing the first suspicions about the OBR's objectivity), that whilst 600,000 public sector jobs will be lost by 2015 - 6 and a similar figure (though unspecified) in the private sector as a result of the public spending cuts, some 2.5 m jobs will be created over the same period in the private sector.

«Unfortunately, the lead ammunition debate has been hijacked by campaigners who are looking to damage shooting as a whole.

Buhari who spoke at the State House in Abuja Wednesday night while hosting members of the House of Representatives to a dinner said «Unfortunately for us as a people, we uncovered that billions of naira and hundreds of millions of dollars were expended by the previous government to acquire good equipment and ammunition for the military to use.

Hear him: «Let me assure you that if I am elected President, the world will have no cause to worry about Nigeria as it has had to recently; that Nigeria will return to its stabilising role in West Africa; and that no inch of Nigerian territory will ever be lost to the enemy because we will pay special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service; we will give them adequate and modern arms and ammunition to work with; we will improve intelligence gathering and border controls to choke Boko Haram's financial and equipment channels; we will be tough on terrorism and tough on its root causes by initiating a comprehensive economic development plan promoting infrastructural development, job creation, agriculture and industry in the affected areas.

«The first suspect, Morris Ashwe 36 yrs Native of Mbajima Village Katsina Ala LGA Benue State confessed and admitted to have been supplying firearms and ammunition to the notorious and most wanted vicious and notorious gang leader of militia, murderers and kidnappers Terwase Akwaza aka Ghana who was declared wanted by the Nigeria Police Force for the merciless killings of several innocent persons and wanton destruction of properties worth Millions of Naira, at ZakiBiam in Benue State on 20th March, 2017 and for other violent crimes such as Culpable Homicide, Mischief by Fire and Criminal Conspiracy and the killing of Mr. Deneen Igbana (late) the Special Adviser on Security to the Governor of Benue State.

The measure, carried by Senator Jim Seward, would do four things: Repeal a requirement — which has yet to be implemented — requiring background checks on people buying ammunition; make it easier for people to will banned «assault weapons» to family members; provide notification and an appeals process for people identified as a mental health risk; and restrict some data on pistol permits.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew praised the vote by the three teacher members of the New York City Teachers» Retirement System to sell the $ 13.5 million pension fund holdings in publicly traded securities of gun and ammunition manufacturers as «the right thing to do» in the wake of the December school shootings that left 20 children and six adults dead in Newtown, Conn..

WHEREAS, Chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, known as the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act («NY SAFE Act») was signed into law by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on January 15, 2013.

As Special Forces of the Nigerian military move forward with the clearance operation of remnants of Boko Haram terrorists in the North East, a massive cache of arms and ammunition belonging to the group was yesterday recovered by soldiers in one of the hideouts.

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To capture the sense of brotherhood among soldiers, his team came up with novel play mechanics, such as «squad abilities» that allow the player's character to interact with and rely on fellow soldiers in the heat of battle by requesting ammunition and med kits.

Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: R Director: Steven Spielberg Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes Plot: Schindler (played by Liam Neeson) tries to save the Jews by bringing as many as he can to an ammunitions plant that may not produce any ammunition.

Both math and reading scores declined for first time since the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) took its current form in 1998, according to data released by the National Assessment Governing Board on Wednesday, and Common Core watchers say the many critics of the standards could use the dip as ammunition in their war against the Common Core.

GM expects interest rates to increase by 0.75 percent this year, as the Federal Reserve continues to move to combat inflation and make sure it has the proper ammunition to act next time the economy slows, the Boston Globe reported.

As gamers progress through Pet Roulette they will be able to unlock additional types of ammunition, get higher scores and most importantly, further terrorize those cute little hamsters by killing them OR saving them.

Sure, you can pick up axes or shovels or such and use them to beat another player to death, but the fact of the matter is guns are the dominating force, their power only kept vaguely in check by having to scrounge ammunition as well.

Collecting these treasures, along with completing certain feats within the game, is tracked by the awarding of medals, which gives the player in - game money to use to unlock extra content on the disc, including concept art, game movies, and game cheats such as guns with infinite ammunition.

Unfortunately, Blue Stinger offers very little replay value once the game is completed, although there are several cheats (such as unlimited ammunition) obtained by beating the game a second and third time.

Inventory and the way you use resources such as fuel, ammunition, oxygen, ore, and weapons are important when surrounded by dozens of warring factions.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 download game is a first - person shooter video game.The player can perform several actions, including jump, sprint, crouch, lay prone, and aim down their gun's iron sights.When the player is shot by an enemy, blood will splatter their heads - up display (HUD), denoting that they have taken damage; if the player avoids gunfire by taking cover, then their health will recover.The HUD also displays other information, such as a compass, a mini-map, and the player's current ammunition count.

That said, the targeting system is a challenge by itself, as I found it would rarely be an easy job to select the enemy unit I wanted to blast... It would often select the wrong enemy, making me waste ammunition on an enemy boosting away from me, instead of the one behind me that I could totally do with slashing right about... Never mind...

Each weapon draws from a shared pool of ammunition (referred to as pellets in the manual; the other Sunsoft Batman games make a similar half - hearted effort to cover up that you're just shooting people until they explode in the games) which is regained by killing enemies.

In his 2016 exhibition Earshot, Abu Hamdan conducted a detailed acoustic analysis of the recorded gunshots associated with the same shooting to determine whether soldiers from the Israeli Defence Force had used rubber bullets, as they claimed, or had broken the law by firing live ammunition.

The case hinged upon an audio - ballistic analysis of the recorded gunshots to determine whether the soldiers had used rubber bullets, as they asserted, or broken the law by firing live ammunition at the two unarmed teenagers.

On the March 24 edition of Fox Business» Varney & Co., guest host Charles Payne and contributor Tracy Byrnes discussed the impact that the oil spill would have as «an impediment to growing out our fossil fuel industry» by providing ammunition for environmentalists.

But the obstacle is the real existing political economy of capitalism, and not the alleged technical problems cited by Cox, which are misleadingly used as ammunition against the feasibility of the imperative need to facilitate a rapid 100 % global renewable wind / solar energy transition.

That said, as someone that has been on the recieving end of denigration when I responded with science to a friend's view point that sea levels would be 3 feet higher by 2060, I stand by my view that a lot of the failure of the climate community to address climategate is because of tribalism, don't want to give ammunition to the opposition.

I guess I'd add that this is understandable, given that the denier camp really doesn't have much actual science to use as ammunition or to build their arguments on, and thus they tend to wage their campaign by cherrypicking data, or seeking to attack narrow and often out - of - context passages found in scientific papers or in simplified postings about those papers found on sites like Skeptical Science.

As for drive - by shootings, if the ammunition were facts, then I'd be up for a gunfight, metaphorically speaking.

The 2nd amendment, as interpreted by SCOTUS, grants to individuals the right to bear arms (guns), but the right of the government to place reasonable restrictions on the types of weapons, how they operate and limitations on restrictions of the type of ammunition, or the extent of the firepower of those weapons, have been clearly approved.

There are many regulations to consider, for the firearms themselves, the permits needed by potential customers, and licensing you will need as a business dealing with firearms and ammunition.

More serious crimes, such as possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition, weapons trafficking and importing a prohibited weapon, used to carry a statutory minimum penalty of three years imprisonment, though this was struck down in the cases of R v. Smickle and R v. Nur that were released in 2013 by the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Andrew Taggart, partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, says: «Employers should take action now to prepare for the changes required by the regulations and be aware that pay information may be used as ammunition for equal pay claims.

... intends to sell firearms or certain firearms accessories through direct sales (e.g., private sales by individuals) or links to sites that sell these items... Provides instructions on manufacturing a firearm, ammunition, high capacity magazine, homemade silencers / suppressors, or certain firearms accessories such as those listed above.

Slated for discussion are local bans on assault - style rifles and high - capacity ammunition magazines, both carried by the Douglas High shooter, as well as bump stocks, the accessories used by the gunman in last year's Las Vegas massacre to make his semi-automatic weapons fire like machine guns.

Forcing highly ethical, 20 year plus zero infraction registrants to be viewed by the consumer as an equal to the worst 1 year new licensee, only allows 3rd parties more and more ammunition to destroy you.