Sentences with phrase «in arms control»

She also has been engaged in arms control and treaty verification activities.

I worked in arms control for over 20 years.

We should be taking the lead in arms control.

This view is not shared by some experts in arms control however.

The first issue of Science & Diplomacy includes articles by senior scientists, diplomats, and policy - makers, including U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R — Indiana), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in arms control; Robert D. Hormats, U.S. under secretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment; South African Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor; and Alice P. Gast, Lehigh University president and U.S. science envoy to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.

The Foster Fellows program affords tenured and tenure - track academic faculty the unique opportunity to bring their research and expertise to the Department of State to assist in policy and programmatic development in arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament activities.

He aims to inform the public, liaise with other members of the academic community, work with civil society actors engaged in arms control and partner with governments to discuss the moral issues introduced by new technology and collaborate on design proposals.

A Congressional Research Service paper «Monitoring and Verification in Arms Control» is a good summary on the topic.

Not exact matches

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

Orange plastic bottles zip along soundlessly, then enter glass control booths, where robotic arms swing in and out.

A Saudi - led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen has closed air, land and sea access in a move it says is meant to stop a flow of Iranian arms to the Houthis, who control much of northern Yemen.

It's suspected the two cartels cooperated to some extent in the 1980s, organizing an armed group to fight kidnappers and working to stabilize the drug market and divide up territory in the US — the Medellin cartel took Miami and South Florida, while the Cali cartel controlled New York City and parts of the northeast.

The arm band communicates with nearby computers or other mobile devices using Bluetooth low energy radio signals.Developers have used it for everything from controlling the volume in iTunes to allowing scrubbed - in surgeons to annotate digital MRI scans without needing to touch unsterile equipment.

Ajax, whose agency is an arm of the California Department of Consumer Affairs, is well - versed in controlled substances.

Jones» case is different from those of two career foreign service officers, former undersecretaries of state Patrick Kennedy, the department's top management official, and Thomas Countryman, its top arms control officer, who had risen to politically appointed jobs and were asked to leave in January.

At the leading edge is Liberating Technologies in Holliston, Massachusetts, which has developed an artificial arm capable of reading as many as 10 different signals from the wearer's nerves to control five motors simultaneously at variable speeds.

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Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro sacked the head of PDVSA and handed over control to the military in order to keep the armed forces on his side.

Companies that make «smart» devices for the home, which can be controlled via an app, and mostly reside in the Amazon Home Services arm, which launched in 2015.

Mr. Scott, also a Republican, unveiled his own $ 500 million gun control package in Tallahassee last week and said he opposed arming teachers.

The sixth, and most extensive, form of co-operation is where individual countries cede control over an arm of policy to an international body, which conducts that policy in pursuit of a collective goal.

As Parkland gun control activists and their surrogates mock the idea of arming teachers, march for gun bans in D.C., and call for new gun controls via Twitter, they risk driving Americans toward the Second Amendment instead of away from it.

Z Capital Partners, LLC («ZCP») is the private equity arm of Z Capital and pursues a value - oriented, opportunistic approach in private equity that includes making control investments in companies that involve turnarounds, corporate carve - outs, growth platforms, go - private transactions, and restructurings.

«Rep. Young suggests guns could've saved Jews during Holocaust,» from Alaska Public Media: «Speaking at a conference in Juneau last week, Alaska Congressman Don Young [R] argued against gun control by suggesting Jews might not have died in the Holocaust if they had been armed.

That's what many ranchers and sympathizers opposing federal control of public lands in the West concluded after the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon.

TALLAHASSEE — For the first time in two decades, the Republican - controlled Legislature passed Wednesday night major gun - control measures while also agreeing to arm some teachers and other school staff.

Control of Arm's operations in China has been transferred to a jv controlled by Chinese investors.

Now it appears the Freedom Caucus and its chair, Rep. Mark Meadows (R - NC), are strategizing how to steer Trump back in their direction, away from gun control and toward armed policing and a focus on institutionalizing those with mental illnesses.

While an ARM's interest rate is free to change, there are specific parameters laid out in the loan's terms that control how many times the rate can change as well as the highest possible level that it can reach.

Its amazing how we argue against something deemed to help our citizens, yet if a gun control bill was up for debate people would be in arms (pun intended) about their right to own guns.

My experience and observation is that the church is a safe haven for abuse, manipulation, control, bullying, and strong - armed tactics that chew people up and spit them out, leaving countless voiceless victims in its wake.

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

While repudiating the notion that nuclear war in any circumstance can be a just war, the bishops say that they will tolerate for now the possession of nuclear weapons as long as serious efforts are made toward arms control.

Through his Media Matters organization, Soros is dumping pro-UN gun control propaganda into the mainstream media to coincide with the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty being held in New York July 2 — 27.

In The Challenge of Peace, their 1983 pastoral letter, the bishops «identified as critical the need for arms control and disarmament, efforts to minimize the risk of «any war.»»

Since without such authority there is no entity competent to determine just cause, exercise right intention, aim at the establishment of peace, and control armed forces in accord with the moral limits of the jus in bello, this lack of sovereignty means that the United Nations as an institution can not have a jus ad bellum in the fundamental just war sense.

The difference is, that unlike in a Mind Control cult, the Armed Forces recruits know what is going on; it is expected.

Paul Warnke's comment that the START talks were «conceived in sin» (as a result of grass - roots pressure) indicates the reluctance of the leaders of this administration to face the primary moral question of nuclear arms control and elimination.

I ended up though in the arms of legalistic religion and spent the last 25 years under the same type of controlling abusive authority only in the name of God.

The purpose of our Armed Forces is not about building churches and stomping around according to their manipulative and subversive machinations behind the scenes using simple mind - control techniques against our own military's usage of mind - control in training.

It was about equally characteristic of the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Russian, and the Dutch possessions — those in which the policy of autocratic control by the secular arm was most marked.

Placing arms control machinery in the hands of the United Nations would at the same time be a step in strengthening the latter.

The president, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, retaliated against protesters with violent attacks, leading to an armed conflict that currently has Gadhafi on the run and the rebels in a tenuous control of Libya.

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.

Bands of peasants, armed and on the move, were taking over control of part of the Black Forest in the south - west, by the middle of August.

Mr. Fitzpatrick says that «we would not react patiently to a German who excused his reluctance to use force in 1942 to free concentration camp inmates if he argued that he was convinced at the time that he could do more good by working within the system to end Nazi control than by risking his own arrest and imprisonment in an armed strike to free a few dozen inmates scheduled for the gas chambers on a single morning.»

Eighty - one per cent would like to see a step - up in arms - control negotiations with the Soviets, though only 46 per cent regard the use of nuclear weapons as «always morally wrong.»

Controlled by a highly reclusive family in Germany, Aldi has worked to keep the breadth and profitability of its Australian arm confidential.

If the merger of Anheuser - Busch InBev and SAB Miller succeeds, then the Australian arm of the merged entity could conceivably want to regain control of the Corona licence in Australia.

The question is whether or not an adjustment of the ball in his arms after he lifts his left foot constitutes him still gathering control.