Sentences with phrase «as his weapon of»

Monetary policy was the last thing Bernanke listed, as a weapon of last resort.

According to Shel and Jay, «Too many businesses see marketing as a weapon of war.

Language is enlisted not to communicate truth but as a weapon of war.

According to Tearfund's Katie Harrison, who has visited many conflict and post-conflict situations around the world, rape is «constantly used as a weapon of war».

In the U.S., what I care about is when they want to crap all over different people in differing ways because they differ and don't agree with one another; and because this conflicted nature of the Christian belief system is thus often used as a weapon of bigotry.

Sometimes I think I'd rather believe in a God that doesn't «answer» prayers than a God that gives me what I want for me and mine and lets children be raped or forced into drug habits and used as weapons of war.

This was at a time when the Foreign Office under William Hague was making a big fanfare about challenging rape as a weapon of war, but the Home Office was routinely deporting women seeking asylum who had endured this awful crime.

Every week at Burma Campaign UK we receive more reports of how the Burmese Army is using gang - rape as a weapon of war.

The ISIS group that has taken over several Iraq cities has also gained power over both its major rivers, allowing it to use water as a weapon of war

Or, as Vande Woude puts it, «Conceivably, we could find a drug that would make anthrax as a weapon of destruction as powerful as a water pistol.»

Iraq's brutal Baath dictator liked to use thallium sulfate as his weapon of choice to kill dissidents and activists.

New treatments would certainly help mitigate the fears of home food canners - not to mention those concerned that botulinum neurotoxin might be used as a weapon of bioterror.

rocket Something propelled into the air or through space, sometimes as a weapon of war.

I've wanted poufs for ever however, I don't trust my boys not to use them as weapons of mass destruction in our house!

In a scene that resonates with the idea of sex as a weapon of torture, she pulls off her underpants, uses them to gag him, then tapes his mouth and tears the tape with her teeth while straddling his lap.

But when their main person of interest diverts course into a crowded, heavily guarded residential area, Operation Cobra is forced to change from a capture mission to a kill mission, with the drone as its weapon of choice.

Consider that even the climactic set - piece involves a monorail system Bruce's father built as a way to ease the financial burden of the city's desperate classes being used by a surrogate father intent on wielding terror as a weapon of mass destruction.

Players choose from six character sprites who range from a little leaguer named Raptor, who wields a standard baseball bat, to Candyman, a mix of Pac - Man and The Joker who wields a long walking cane as his weapon of choice.

Yondu Udonta used a Yaka Arrow as his weapon of choice in both Guardians of the Galaxy films.

A necessity, given, as Boyd Holbrook's snide cyborg merc puts it, his brain «is classified as a weapon of mass destruction now».

He finds a strange - looking storage unit containing a genetically edited pathogen designated as a weapon of mass destruction.

But despite sharing his uncle's deep - rooted disdain for wildlife, which he hides from Bea, it is Thomas who we begin to feel sorry for as the increasingly belligerent Peter goes from likably cheeky chap to sneering sadist as he tries to torture his enemy by repurposing McGregor's animal traps, electric security devices and explosives as weapons of ever - escalating destruction in the mode of «Home Alone.»

Perhaps as the weapons of war advanced in the Cold War, so did the need for Wonder Woman's armored protection.

Most Americans know the story well, as the plane never met its intended destination, while the passengers on board were able to contact their loved ones as the flight was en route, informed that three other planes had been used as weapons of mass suicide, two of them hitting the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and a third striking the Pentagon.

In February 2013, the assistant U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Erika Feller, cautioned that the conflict in Syria is «increasingly marked by rape and sexual violence employed as a weapon of war to intimidate parties to the conflict destroying identity, dignity and the social fabrics of families and communities.»

Subsequently, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has recognized rape as a war crime, 58 thus recognizing that «women are particularly vulnerable to persecution by sexual violence as a weapon of war.»

That's the premise of a new novel, SCARS OF THE PAST, by Angela Hausman that explores how hackers use IoT devices as weapons of destruction, even death.

Digital Harassment Is the New Means of Domestic Abuse — February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, and a growing concern among those who work with victims of domestic violence that «technology is increasingly replacing fists as the weapon of choice in abusive relationships.»

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, and a growing concern among those who work with victims of domestic violence that «technology is increasingly replacing fists as the weapon of choice in abusive relationships.»

While some see credit cards as weapons of mass consumption, in the right hands they can be earning tools.

Keep in mind, in an effort to boost the U.S. economy, the central bank of the United States has used higher stock prices as a weapon of perceived wealth creation.

So whether you're considering fire or another peril as your weapon of choice, make sure you have an escape route and won't die or get seriously injured when you scam yourself a big check.

He railed against derivatives as weapons of mass destruction, and now turns out to have been sitting on a $ 68 billion pile of credit default swaps and exotic put options on various stock market indexes.

With this in mind, pet parents are gearing up to fight off parasitic threats, and they are increasingly turning to natural options, rather than harsh chemicals, as their weapons of choice.

What else would a lethal killing machine use as his weapon of choice?

Telltale Games has established itself as a studio to be reckoned with as long as the weapon of choice is a character - driven point «n click adventure game.

As promised though, they are tricky to use and are very much meant as a weapon of last resort.

Natalia (rather unhelpfully) utilises bricks as her weapon of choice, though being a child also helps her to sneak into smaller crevices and gaps that others can't.

Pure mode is there for the Super Stardust purists who only want their trusty analog sticks, bombs and boost as their weapons of choice.

The Outlaws are an anarchist group centered on scavenging, with rifles as their weapon of choice in combat.

With their bodies mainly composed of a jelly - like substance, TerraTerrors take on the form of humanoid monsters wielding lengthy rods as their weapons of choice.

Vivi eventually finds out that he is one of many black mages who were artificially created as a weapon of war.

As for the new Red Mage class, it's a ranged DPS role with rapiers and magicked crystal mediums as its weapons of choice.

I soon learned that everyone was using single - shot rifles as their weapon of choice, where range didn't seem to matter and, as long as you can hit your enemy somewhere, you get the kill.

The scariest game character in Manhunt is Piggsy, a mentally ill, massive psychopath who uses a chainsaw as his weapon of choice and wears a pig head mask.

You play as an unnamed human who must navigate labyrinths in an alien world, only armed with an Iron Bar as your weapon of choice.

They've also given you an unbreakable knife as a weapon of last resort; no more kicking the undead to death like you're in some macabre chorus line.

«These were notorious in the townships as weapons of mass oppression,» said Ralph Ziman, the South African artist who transformed the Casspir into a more stirring sight for the sake of an artwork titled SPOEK 1.

While the final girl has provided rich fodder for film theorists, especially regarding her complex reprocessing of gender mores, what often lingers unrecognised is how the final girl improvises new technologies in the interests of survival: the only place in Western culture where there still persist very ancient ideas about technology as a weapon of the weak, and the means of prevailing when defeat appears inevitable — a tendency pushed to its speculative extreme in The Last Girl Scout.

Not only are the minerals gathered through abusive means and slave labor, they're also gathered where rape is used as a weapon of war over the mines.