Sentences with phrase «handed weapon in»

For example, you may have a single handed weapon in your right hand and a pistol or a blunderbuss in your left.

Both of its modes are large two - handed weapons in this case.

Not exact matches

Men who serve in the militia are trained and handed a weapon that they can keep until they're done serving.

«It is a tremendous weapon in the hands of an adversary.»

Life is one long battle; we have to fight at every step; and Voltaire very rightly says that if we succeed, it is at the point of the sword, and that we die with the weapon in our hand.

The organization was formed in 1960 but by the early 1970s crude became a weapon in the hands of OPEC, plain and simple.

«The blunt fact is that, in the past 50 years, firearms in the hands of domestic extremists have killed far more Americans than have bombs, blades, chemical or biological weapons, or any other type of weapon,» the report stated.

The aircraft features an advanced data link system, HOTAS (Hands On Throttle And Stick) commands, three radios, a latest generation Targeting Pod, and also a sophisticated HMCS (Helmet Mounted Cueing System), that alongside the rest of the aircraft's sensors, allows the pilot to effectively employ the weapon in a matter of seconds.

Some 50 dead at the hands of a self - declared ISIS supporter with an automatic assault weapon, in the midst of the most polarized presidential election the country has experienced in the post-war period.

The gun violence restraining order proposal would give judges in North Carolina a tool similar to domestic violence restraining orders to temporarily but rapidly remove weapons from the hands of people exhibiting threatening or dangerous behavior.

«This transfer will not create opportunities to put weapons in the hands of bad actors,» Rich Ashooh, assistant secretary of commerce for export administration, insisted in a statement to McClatchy.

The problem is that components can degrade, making the weapons either unstable, so they can blow up in a soldier's hand, or inert, so that soldiers can't fire the weapons, leaving them vulnerable in battle.

-- IRD note: Maybe 1.4 % of a global stock bubble — but that's like saying a small nuclear bomb in the hands of a madman is just 1.4 % of the total stockpile of nuclear weapons.

But, got ta admit, your science with bio weapons, nuclear weapons and other advancements, your science is just like anything else on this planet in the wrong hands.

The only extraordinary thing about the tape, released over two months after the talk, is how long the union took to realize what a weapon it had in its hands.

The whole racism thing is just smoke and mirrors and not necessarily out of hand (I mean, if we're allowed to brandish anti-semitism as weapon, it's only fair), there might be a bit of racism, direct or indirect, but I think it's pretty ridiculous for this woman to want to be buried there in the first place.

Mark Bauerlein's post on the rhetoric of anti-discrimination points clearly to the problem which traditionalists face: In a world where ethics is aesthetics, the language of victimhood has become a subjective concept which is a potent weapon in the hands of the powerfuIn a world where ethics is aesthetics, the language of victimhood has become a subjective concept which is a potent weapon in the hands of the powerfuin the hands of the powerful.

No human hands (he means) prepare the weapon by which the power of evil in the world will ultimately be overthrown: it is the act of God alone, whose kingdom will then be effective over all creation.

Mockery, satire and sarcasm aren't simply mean - spirited responses, they're rhetorical weapons in the hands of those on the bottom.

I would carefully step back a few paces, and make sure there wasn't some weapon in your deluded hands.

After watching the clip it was clear that there is lack of Gvt presence and proper republic in that country to take care of it's people and that locals are taking matters into their hands to fill the wide gap of Gvt presence that they are left with... No wonder now why many are taking into immigration out of that caveman country who went into developing it's weapons rather than developing it's people....

at least rome took a thousand years to fall between fundamentalist intolerance and and the ease with which an american citizen can get his hands on weapons of medium destruction, the fall will be in your lifetime Paul -

A weapon of war, and just as easily become a weapon of peace depending on whos hand it is placed in!

Put an AR - 15 in a cops hand and you have a tool for peace, Put that same AR - 15 in the hands like Anders Behring Breivik and you get a weapon of unspeakable horror.

The weapon in the hands of a school guard (I think I jheard there are 23,000 schools that already have armed guards) is considered a necessary, good thing.

A weapon is used for criminal violence in the hands of a person with a criminal / violent heart (mind).

Yet the Ford administration also negotiated the Basket Three human - rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, which turned out to be a powerful weapon in the hands of human - rights activists throughout the Warsaw Pact countries in the endgame of the Cold War.

New Alias If Jewish, socially liberal Jesus actually did return without some kind of weapon in his hands millions of Christians in America wouldn't recognize him as their Savior either.

At this point, the sword placed in the Reformers» hands became the weapon used to decapitate late medieval Scholasticism.

Jeremiah replied, «Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I am going to turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls; and I will bring them together into the center of this city.

You're buying into the lie, because there are and have been people in power who want us to continue to decimate our economy and our nation, pouring all of our wealth into the hands of a few weapons manufacturers and oil corporations.

while i agree in principle with the second amendment, military grade weapons in the hands of loonies have created more problems than their ownership by the general public is worth.

But the law also ensures that American taxpayer money isn't used for buying weapons or equipment that will end up in the hands of children forced to fight in conflicts around the globe.

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.

Ok, scissors have limited potential as a weapon but, in the right hands, they can be lethal — hence encouraging a more attentive response.

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In most of the mass shootings in the United States, the semi-automatic weapons are on hands of the mentally unstable people such as Adam Lanza and James HolmeIn most of the mass shootings in the United States, the semi-automatic weapons are on hands of the mentally unstable people such as Adam Lanza and James Holmein the United States, the semi-automatic weapons are on hands of the mentally unstable people such as Adam Lanza and James Holmes.

I'm well aware of the evil in that law, i am Irish, it was made specifically to keep weapons out of are hands.

Kerry argued (very reasonably) that it would be very dangerous for Syria's chemical weapons to fall into the hands of extremists in a chaotic post-Assad Syria.

One may doubt whether Russia is altruistic enough to use this authority to increase the welfare of the world; one can not doubt that the union of capitalism with race discrimination puts a weapon of incalculable power in the hands of Mr. Stalin.10

I tell you that if within one day everyone in the world woke up to all cancer patients completely and permanently cured, all amputees with their limbs restored, all sëx traffickers turned loose their victims, all child abuse stopped and captives turned loose, everybody laid down their weapons and shook hands, and all down syndrome and other people with genetic maladies were cured; all this taken together, would definitely get the entire worlds attention, would it not?

The Bible becomes whatever the one who holds it in their hand chooses to make it, a looking glass, a window, a weapon, a tool or merely a shiny bit of something to be tossed on the ash heap of life.

Ok it might be technically true that Assault Weapons have been banned, but there are obviously other types of weapons that provide way more killing power than should be in the hands of any joe public.

On the other hand, we are in a war, but our weapons aren't carnal.

Washington is a weapon find away to get the ball in his hands at least once a quarter.

Jan 04,2016... A weapon of immense potency in the proper hands, the UCLA zone press brought the Bruins victories ov...

That morning in Freeport when he looked in on the class, the woman who handed Lofton his first weapon was Tanya Adamovich, a former junior national champion in the Soviet Union.

He was involved in a lot of moves down the right hand side linking well with Nani on the overlap and he capped it all off with the first goal, which showed that he can be a useful weapon on set - pieces.

The optics of the play in question is what's turned it into a weapon against Welbeck - he was unmarked, two yards in front of the goal line, and with a keeper who trailed Iwobi's cross to Wilshere and thus standing on his right hand post.

With Bonucci gone, I'll settle for saying in the hands of a tactician as good as Max Allegri Douglas Costa is a truly potent weapon.