Sentences with phrase «by small arms»

«Our convoy was hit by small arms gunfire,» Burkle says.

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By leveraging the power of the cloud - where all your information is up - to - date and in arm's reach - small businesses will have far fewer infrastructure barriers in competing with larger companies.

Viva Aerobus, the smallest of the upstarts, is backed by Mexican bus company IAMSA and Irelandia Aviation, the investing arm of the Ryan family of Europe's Ryanair.

When I think about debt all I can think about it trying to escape a small dark tunnel where I can not move my arms or legs and have to try to escape by shifting my toes.

One was smaller and round and could be used by moving the arm to defend a certain part of the body which was being threatened.

Those four miles comprised a small adventure in discomfort, since I had determined to take the local buses, and spent a good part of the journey hanging out of the rear doorway by one arm.

The miraculous victory over the army of his enemies which was accomplished by a small number of faithful, poorly armed followers, but men who were assisted by divine power (Surah VIII, 17).

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

While approximately half of Justin Miller's body is covered by tattoos — and he's vowed to fill the empty spaces — only a few small ones adorn his right arm.

There are small wing flaps to fold around the baby's arm, followed by bigger flaps that you use to wrap around the baby's body.

The way it's angled and the extra material tend to make your arms look smaller, by drawing the attention away from them.

In 17th century Italy, Stefano Della Bella created, A Woman Carrying Her Baby in Her Arms and Another Small Child on Her Back, Accompanied by a Young Boy.

You can teach the concept of large and small, as well as helping gross motor development by asking how big things are and spreading arms wide or putting hands close together for small things.

The Arms Reach Cosleeper attaches tightly and firmly to the parental bed by way of a tight cord, pulling it to the bed, preventing gaps, or movement of the bassinet away from the bed, and has a small drop of about four inches to the mattress that permits infant separation but only slight, four inches down from the adult mattress as the baby sleeps in its own «nest».

The whole doll, the body, arms, legs and head are made of a soft vinyl, making the dolls more comfortable for holding & hugging by small children.

Then my daydream is broken up by little arms, wrapping themselves around my neck, small lips kissing my cheek and tiny voices whispering, «I love you Mummy.»

If we succeed, Ed Miliband's commitment to a regional banking system, acting as the delivery arms to the British Investment Bank we have already called for, could represent a life - line to Britain's small businesses, and the bedrock of a One Nation economy that is built by the many and not just a few at the top.

The adoption of mass protest over armed conflict is to be welcomed after decades of vicious civil wars, often perpetrated by small groups of armed men with no broad - based political agenda and little desire to shape one.

In Germany, meanwhile, Chancellor Angela Merkel saw a small UAV flown by protesters crash - land in front of her at a political event, and a group of protesters staged a protest during a German parliamentary debate on the procurement of armed drones for the Bundeswehr.

The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's smallest state with the lowest number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics of the ruling party's candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.

«The Nigerian Army Small Arms Competition will be conducted by 7 Division at Sambisa Forest to consolidate the gains achieved so far and further sharpen the skills of our troops.

«In the colonial and revolutionary war era, [small - arms] weapons used by militiamen and weapons used in defense of person and home were one and the same.»

But if in Franconia, every person who owned a gun owned only one and in Sylvania every person who owned a gun owned five, the reality would be much different, and their small arms ownership rate by household would be even more dramatic, with Franconia having a gun in every home, whereas only 20 % of homes in Sylvania have guns.

Are there any data on the distribution of small arms, preferably grouped by country, but if not within country, but grouped by second tier political body (i.e. states, provinces) would be acceptable?

SANTA FE, Tex. — A nation plagued by a wrenching loop of mass school shootings watched the latest horror play out in this small Southeast Texas town Friday morning, as a young man armed with a shotgun and a.38 revolver smuggled under his coat opened fire on his high school campus, killing 10 people, many of them his fellow students, and wounding 10 more, the authorities said.

At least 50 residents were on Tuesday rounded up by a team of armed military and police personnel deployed to the small Central Regional town to fish for the murderers of Army Captain, Maxwell Adam Mahama.

A move by the Trump administration to make it simpler to sell small arms abroad may provide some relief to gun makers American Outdoor Brands and Sturm Ruger & Company in an industry grappling with a deep sales slump since the president's election.

The increasing spate of bombings by the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), and other armed struggles have been attributed to the poor implementation of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) and proliferation of Small Arms and Lights Weapons (SALW) in the country.

This was disclosed in Abuja at the weekend by the Chairman, Presidential Committee on Small Arms and Light Weapons (PRESCOM), Amb.

A small number of paid canvassers from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in Washington, the campaign arm for House Democrats, and volunteers helped Perez Willams collect 3,200 signatures by going door - to - door across the four - county district in just nine days.

Miscellaneous tax changes reported to be part of the package include several priorities of the business community, including: a favorable change in how the securities industry allocates its receipts for tax purposes, from the address of the firm to the address of the customer; an updating of a sales tax exemption for capital purchases by the telecommunications industry; a reduction in the ton - mileage tax; a rate reduction for small businesses; and creation of an investment tax credit for the securities arms of insurance companies.

The Presidential Committee on Small Arms and Light Weapons, on Monday in Gusau destroyed 5,870 illegal arms and ammunition recovered by the Zamfara GovernmArms and Light Weapons, on Monday in Gusau destroyed 5,870 illegal arms and ammunition recovered by the Zamfara Governmarms and ammunition recovered by the Zamfara Government.

By tensing his biceps, Barnes controls a small motor that changes how tightly the prosthetic arm grips the drumstick and how quickly it moves, vital skills for a drummer.

Findings from this study of flu vaccines delivered by a small needle intradermally parallel earlier results that found adding a strain of influenza B could improve the effectiveness of a flu vaccine nasal spray and a traditional intramuscular vaccine that is injected as a shot in the arm muscle.

The scientists stimulated nerves in the paw by placing it on a metal platform and tapping on one of its digits with a small metal arm.

This article by Scott P. Hippensteel of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte describes how carbonate rocks produced rolling terrain that limited the range and effectiveness of both artillery and small arms.

With more than one billion cases each year, hundreds of thousands of deaths can be attributed to this bacterial disease which is caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), invading the small intestine using arm - like structures called «pili.»

The fossils clearly show a small dinosaur that had flight feathers covering its legs, as well as tail and arms, forming an extra pair of wings never before seen by palaeontologists.

By contrast, the new nano - spirals have solid arms and are much smaller: A square array with 100 nano - spirals on a side is less than a hundredth of a millimeter wide.

Late last year The New York Times published a story about a small, secretive program run by the Department of Defense to study new reports from the armed services about encounters with UFOs.

NOT so long ago, in a galaxy really rather close by, a small band of rebels has taken up arms to overthrow a dark empire...

Sensitive detectors can tell if the length of the arms of a LIGO detector varies by as little as 1/10, 000 the width of a proton, representing the incredibly small scale of the effects imparted by passing gravitational waves.

In each rep, she lowered down in perfect form, and as she came back up, she reached out with one arm to catch a small ball thrown by Peña and toss it back.

As your arm is raised overhead and gets pushed to its limit, the space where your rotator cuff tendons and shoulder sub-acromial space (shoulder bursa) reside becomes smaller, so if you feel pain in your shoulder while performing this motion, it's most likely caused by impingement of the tendons or the shoulder bursa in that area of your shoulder.

Have you ever noticed that when you're feeling down, you tend to make yourself physically smaller, maybe by curling up in bed or crossing your arms and legs.

In twisting poses, you begin by using your arms as levers, and then you learn to turn using your abdominals and then smaller, more intrinsic muscles.

Test aromatherapy skin and hair products, such as lotions, creams, or shampoos, by applying a small dab to your arm.

Kick it up a notch by adding a static movement like small arm circles!

If you are disappointed by the way your body looks because you have small legs, tiny arms or a flat butt the solution is always to build muscle in the affected area.

Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)