Sentences with phrase «civilian populations by»

Gurcan notes that while there are a number of advantages to using drones, such as effectiveness at removing key targets and avoidance of friendly casualties, they may also increase the power of extremists amongst civilian populations by creating a siege mentality.

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, Employment Situation, Table A-1, Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm (accessed June 16, 2009).

Not exact matches

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

(The NSFG was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is described as a «nationally representative of women 15 - 44 years of age in the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States.»

One claims to seek only bad guys and kills innocents by accident, the other targets civilians only and I am not sure which side does the largest damage as a percentage of population.

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

In contrast to the Franck report, the decision to drop the bomb on civilian populations was governed mainly by immediate military considerations.

However, he does recommend more reliance upon imaginative diplomacy than upon weaponry; and he also decries the use of terror bombing of civilian populations, as was sometimes employed by the United States in World War II, in even the fiercest of wars.

Having (or performing) an abortion, for example, or terror bombing a civilian population, can not be justified by the good consequences to be achieved, or bad consequences to be avoided, by carrying out these choices.

Use of banned weapons against civilian populations should be investigated by the United Nations.

The overseas eligible population estimate is calculated from 2013 overseas civilian estimate from the State Department — which reports 7.6 million overseas citizens in FY 2013 and is deflated by 70.3 %, the percentage of the domestic citizen population that is of voting age according to the 2013 American Community Survey.

«Yes, we have seen in the past few years how these rights have been challenged by the mindless extremism of the Boko Haram in the North - East, and how again our gallant military, police and civilian populations have risen jointly & gallantly to rout these criminal combatants and restore peace to most communities in that zone.

The analysis documents how state forces steadily widened their focus from killing militants in the 1960s to terrorizing the civilian population through massacring large groups of Mayan villagers by the 1980s.

Whether the higher dose becomes the preferred procedure for nursing homes would be determined by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a group of medical and public health experts that develop recommendations on use of vaccines in the civilian population.

By comparing these maps with records of U.S. and Vietnamese troop positions and civilian populations, the researchers determined that at least 3,181 villages were sprayed and that between 2.1 million and 4.8 million Vietnamese were exposed to dioxin.

It's terrifying, in other words, even when you can't process what's going on, because of the perspective afforded by its aerial shots of Yanks fire - bombing a civilian population — an acceptable war crime in Dresden and Tokyo, lest we forget — followed hot by chemical warfare in a sequence of flight from slowly - encroaching death that pays a sort of literal homage to Romero's shambling legions.

In Section 2331 of Chapter 113 (A), defines terrorism as activities that: involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; (B) ``... activities that involve violent... or life - threatening acts... that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State and... appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and... (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States...» (10) Subsequently paper will go deeper in counter-terrorism legislation of US.

The Unquiet Dead By Ausma Zehanat Khan ISBN # 9781250055118 Brought to you by OBS reviewer Scott As Ausma Zehanat Khan cites in her afterword: «For the first time since the Second World War, a genocide campaign of staggering ferocity and ruthlessness was unleashed against a civilian population in Europe, nearly... Continue readingBy Ausma Zehanat Khan ISBN # 9781250055118 Brought to you by OBS reviewer Scott As Ausma Zehanat Khan cites in her afterword: «For the first time since the Second World War, a genocide campaign of staggering ferocity and ruthlessness was unleashed against a civilian population in Europe, nearly... Continue readingby OBS reviewer Scott As Ausma Zehanat Khan cites in her afterword: «For the first time since the Second World War, a genocide campaign of staggering ferocity and ruthlessness was unleashed against a civilian population in Europe, nearly... Continue reading →

In the succeeding months, which brought the collapse of France, the threat of invasion across the Channel, and the heavy air raids on London and other cities, the Daily Worker seemed to be implementing this policy by encouraging unrest in the forces and among the civilian population, and by advocating stoppages and strikes in industry.

The authorities respond by evacuating the civilian population.

This disconnect between story and free roam modes is further widened by the fact that you can just as easily slaughter the local civilian population and consume them for health without consequence.

The latest figures from the UN show that three - quarters of the population are forced to survive in absolute poverty on less than one dollar a day; over 30 % of all children die before reaching the age of five and one child now dies of preventable diseases and malnutrition every three minutes (480 every day); overall life expectancy is a mere 45 years and almost a third of the country's population has been displaced by the conflict (some four million civilians).

Global Witness found that the brunt of the extortion and abuse is borne by the region's civilian population.

Ukraine's position is that Russia violates ICSFT by continuing to support pro-Russian separatist armed groups in eastern Ukraine that engage in the commission of terrorist acts against the civilian population.

On 26 February 2011, by way of a unanimous UNSC Resolution (1970) which invoked Chapter VII / Art 41 on the basis, inter-alia of «gross and systematic violation of human rights» and, noting that «widespread and systematic attacks currently taking place against the civilian population may amount to crimes against humanity», the UNSC has:

In the face of non compliance with UNSC Res 1970, several cease - fire declarations by the Gaddafi regime which were not honoured, and a continued threat of force against civilian populations, on 17 March 2011, a majority of the UNSC (five members abstaining namely Brazil, Germany, India, Russia and China) invoked Chapter VII, re-iterated the references to gross human rights abuses and adopted the following additional measures:

Syria - Raqqa About Blog Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently is a campaign launched by a group of non-violent activists in Raqqa to expose the atrocities committed by the terrorist extremist group «the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria toward the civilian populations in the city.

The monthly labour force statistics are Australia's official measure of unemployment, with data collected by interview over an eight month period from a sample of the civilian population aged 15 years and over.