Sentences with phrase «for civilian use»

So it's now illegal to manufacture new automatic weapons for civilian use.

In 1980 they opened the system for civilian use.

Length is a significant problem for veterans converting a military resume for civilian use.

Unlike commercial PR agencies and communications firms, we use advanced scientific research and social analysis techniques, adapted for civilian use from military applications, to better understand behaviour within electorates.

«It's our intention not to finance these military - style firearms for civilian use,» Anne Finucane, a vice chairman at Bank of America, said Tuesday in a Bloomberg Television interview.

Damascus is still permitted to have chlorine for civilian use, although its use as a weapon is banned.

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.

During the question - and - answer session, a shareholder asked Moynihan how much business the bank was giving up because of its decision to stop lending to manufacturers of military - style guns sold for civilian use.

We also demand that health and educational institutions be improved and adapted, spending on armaments be reduced and these industries be converted for civilian use.

Automatic firearms are forbidden for civilian use.

Stories like this are rare in the US, where laws for the civilian use of drones have yet to be worked out.

It wasn't until the 1950s, when avid hiker Dick Kelty developed a lightweight but sturdy bag meant for civilian use, that they became common throughout society.

The Caprice PPV marks the return of Holden - built products to the United States, but for the time being it is unavailable for civilian use.

The strengths of this vehicle initially gave rise to the Hummer H1 in 1992, but being very close to the military vehicle which inspired it, the H1 was not perceived as being very convenient for civilian use.

The Defender will be powered by the same 180 - horsepower version of the aluminum 3.9 - liter V - 8 that is under the hood of the luxurious Range Rover - making Defender the most powerful Land Rover ever built for civilian use, said Bill Baker, spokesman for Range Rover of North America.

It may have been conceived for the rough and tumble of the Australian outback, but the conversion for civilian use gives it a straightforward nature together with level of comfort you'd hardly expect from such an extreme looking machine.

Essentially, the study is arguing that such expansive R&D; projects won't really help the military in particular any time soon — and that the projects are really aimed at advancing fuels for civilian use.

Ins Tiimi, a company which lost the tender, did not agree, claiming that the equipment could be used for civilian uses as well.

The Court had previously stated that this means that certain dual use goods (goods which can have a civilian and a military purpose such as helicopters and trucks) do not fall under the exemption if those goods are «certainly for civilian use and possibly for military use».

It was easily adapted for civilian use, with one major difference: Military versions can fire fully automatically — or in bursts of several shots — by depressing the trigger once.

This spring, Citigroup said it would require business customers to restrict certain firearms sales, while Bank of America said it would stop lending to manufacturers that make military - inspired firearms for civilian use.

Unhinged even by the standards of 1980s Lamborghinis, the LM 002 was conceived as a military vehicle and, as with America's Humvee, was quickly adapted for civilian use.