Sentences with phrase «by use of weapons»

Sizz and its advanced incarnations do not appear in Dragon Quest IX, though their effects can be replicated by use of weapons such as the Cautery Sword.

«An ideology — even one as dangerous and perverse as that of IS — can not be defeated by the use of weapons.

Sexual assault can be aggravated by the use of a weapon or if it causes physical harm to the victim, but physical harm is not required.

Ms. Hernandez was charged with intent to cause death or bodily harm through the setting of a trap and assault by the use of a weapon (syringe).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Nuclear weapons have been used exactly twice in combat — both times by the US, and both times dropped by a propeller aircraft over largely unprotected Japanese airspace at the close of World War II.

Also banned: instructions on «on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people,» unless there is «clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self - defense activities, training by a country's military, commercial video games, or news coverage).»

North Dakota officials said the explosion that injured the woman was still under investigation, but injuries to her arm were not the result of any tools or weapons used by law enforcement.

As the DOJ's complaint against the merger argues, the resulting conglomerate might «use its control of Time Warner's popular programming as a weapon to harm competition» by raising the prices it charges other cable networks for Time Warner entertainment or limiting distribution of content from other producers.

The one thing that ties all of these cases together (and you might throw in a comment this week by press secretary Sean Spicer about Hitler not using chemical weapons) is that there didn't appear to show remorse.

The first thing that's changed is that Consumer Internet and Genomics are Driving Innovation at scale In the 1950's and» 60's U.S. Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley's first microwave devices and semiconductor components.

And any use of nuclear weapons by the North will be met with a massive military response that is both effective and overwhelming,» Mattis said.

The closure comes after months of scrutiny caused by the use of a bump stock — an accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire at the rate of an automatic — in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.

One final aspect of food technology, which I explore in my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, is its use by the United States as a weapon, figuratively speaking.

US C - SOG argues that by using modern technology and weapons, including shotguns, Tasers, and body cameras, officers can use a more exact amount of force and ensure they never apply more than necessary.

The European Union also said evidence pointed to the use of chemical weapons by Assad's forces.

MEC doesn't sell guns, but has faced a petition calling on it to stop selling brands owned by Vista Outdoor because the U.S. company also develops and manufactures firearms similar to the type of weapon used in a recent mass shooting in Florida.

«This is just the latest in a series of the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, notwithstanding their use on more than 50 occasions of chlorine bombs and cluster bombs and other types of weapons that are intended to maim and kill in the most horrific ways.

«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.

This footage was captured by a U.S. Navy F / A -18 Super Hornet using the Raytheon ATFLIR Pod that was being operated by a highly trained aerial observer and weapons system operator whom the government has spent millions of dollars to train.

Now, when bitcoin is seen as the most likely method to have been actually used by a mass murderer for the purchase of a weapon, European authorities will have all the legitimacy and urgency to act against it.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters that the President also did not rule out raising the legal age at which someone could buy an AR - 15 style weapon, the type of firearm used by the 19 - year - old confessed shooter in Florida.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

«They agreed it was vital that the use of chemical weapons did not go unchallenged, and on the need to deter the further use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.

In February, 200 - year - old gun maker Remington filed for bankruptcy, beset by reduced sales and ongoing lawsuits linked to the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre, during which shooter Adam Lanza used one of the company's weapons.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged by federal authorities with conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, resulting in death.

And in this respect the smart suits, smooth patter and glossy office meeting rooms in the City suddenly take on a more sinister edge as classic weapons used by a «con - man» (which you will remember is the abbreviation of confidence man) to propagate a belief that turns out to be untrue.

Several countries even spoke in support of U.S. - led action in Syria and against the use of chemical weapons by the Assad government.

No civilian should be able to access these weapons of war, which should be restricted for use by our military and law enforcement only.

From his perch on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, the gunman, who was identified by the police as Stephen Paddock, used rapid - fire weapons to shoot at concertgoers at a music festival.

The use of high - powered semiautomatic rifles in recent mass shootings, including by Cruz, police say, and in last year's killing of 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas, has sparked calls to reinstate the 10 - year ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004.

In subsequent decades, additional legislation was passed severely restricting the manufacture, and use by civilians, of automatic weapons.

After being welcomed by the Aboriginal staff, you are invited to explore their indigenous history, art, dance and culture, including the use of their tools and weapons, and meaning behind their body paint.

This is popular ply by the anti science / antievolution crowd, take a quotation by a reputable scientist out of context, or leave out the salient parts, and use that as a weapon against evolution.

Christianity in particular, seeks vulnerable people, beats them down like a brutal abusive spouse, by telling them they are evil and sinful, and can not be strong and good by themselves, and then gives them a prosthetic of religion to prop them up again — the very weapon used to beat them with to begin with.

«The allegations of the USA and other countries that the Syrian army is using chemical weapons and that Syria is a country that owns and uses this kind of weapon, is a claim that is unjustified and unsupported by sufficient and clear evidence.

The danse macabre in the Middle East, the Israel - Palestinian conflict, the torrent of diabolic weapons showered by the U. S. for the use of Afghan rebels who first hung noble President Najibullah on a street pole and then indulged in mutual massacre flooding with blood the snow - white mountains (the sombre slaughter, even amidst natural calamities, is still unabated) and other holocausts baffle description.

Pope Francis has closed his traditional Sunday blessing by saying «nothing can justify» the use of chemical weapons against defenceless people, and called for those responsible for a suspected attack in Syria to seek negotiations.

Oates was used as a weapon by the cynical Whig party, led by the first earl of Shaftesbury, whose personal secretary was John Locke.

The primary concern of Brutus is that judicial review is a stealth weapon implicit in the idea of a written Constitution that would be used by the evildoing Federalists to dispower the states.

And we are all frightened at the prospect of the use of nuclear weapons by terrorists against innocent civilian populations.

But as I have noted, the actual face of recent warfare differs markedly from this, as it involves civil wars, uses of force by non-state actors, and massive harm to the innocent not from the use of horrific weapons but because they are made the direct targets of weapons ranging from knives to automatic rifles to suicide bombs.

Since it is God's gift food should not be used as a weapon either by Christians to destroy the weaker consciences of their fellow believers or by the state to compel Christians to engage in certain cultural activities deemed to be necessary for citizenship.

The event was seen as hugely insensitive in the wake of the Parkland shootings, in which a gunman used a weapon similar to the AR - 15 rifle to take 17 lives and was protested by members of the community.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Antagonism against the USA is further perpetrated by the leadership of the USA in Gulf War, military involvement in Somalia [both Muslim nations], and, as mentioned above, the continued economic blockade against Iraq and support and supply of weapons to the Israeli army (which has been used predominantly against the «intifada» [uprising] of the Palestinian youth beginning in 1987).

The possession of nuclear weapons that are kept to deter their use by the other side has some justification, but the moment we accept the actual possibility of our using them to initiate the nuclear stage of a war, we are taking upon ourselves an unexamined moral responsibility.

In talking about «the imagination of a society,» one must not forget how the Western imperialist - expansionist enterprise of colonization, with its attendant construction of «Orientalism,» provided the majority - dominant community with a double - edged weapon - on the one hand to use the tools provided by such an enterprise to create a superstructure which suited its own legitimation of superiority; and, on the other, to claim to be the authentic dispossessed, struggling to reclaim its rights.

Lets just say there are 3 million to stay on the low side; what you suggest is to ban a weapon owned by over 3 million law abiding citizens, because it is used by criminals.008 % of the time??? Also, no civilian without a CLASS III federal license owns a real «assault weapon».