Sentences with phrase «many weapons he uses»

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.

(Not all aircraft active over Iraq and Syria are under US control, so the total number of weapons used is likely higher.)

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.

At the meeting in New York, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged all members of the Security Council to exercise restraint and avoid escalation in Syria, but said allegations of chemical weapons use demands an investigation.

The Tomahawk missile, one of several stand - off weapons used in the overnight strikes in Syria, is an older and still effective weapons platform especially in its most updated versions.

Although police never recovered the weapon used to shoot Lloyd, five.45 - caliber shell casings were found at the scene of the crime.

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.

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged all Security Council members to exercise restraint and avoid escalation in Syria, but said allegations of chemical weapons use demand an investigation.

Without a strong domestic steel industry, the U.S. military could risk jeopardizing its defenses by building tanks and other weapons using cheaply made foreign steel, the CEO argued.

Sen. Rand Paul, R. - Ky., and Rep. Mo Brooks, R. - Ala., who were both at the baseball field, described the weapon used by the shooter as a rifle.

Syria Deeply answers some of the big questions surrounding the suspected poison gas attack in Douma last week, and the wider issue of chemical weapon use in Syria.20 days ago

So any effort to ban or regulate the sale of bump stocks would not have changed the shooter's ability to access the weapon he used or how he used it.

David and Francine Wheeler, whose 6 - year - old son Benjamin was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the weapon used in the mass killing.

The company manufactured the AR -15-style weapon used by the gunman in the 2012 attack in Newtown, Conn., in which 26 people, including 20 first graders, were killed.

My rifle was very similar to the AR -15-style semiautomatic weapon used to kill students, teachers and a coach I knew at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where I once lived.

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.

Stocks began to tumble for American Outdoor Brands the day after the Parkland shooter killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, following reports that the weapon used in the shooting was an AR - 15 made by the Massachusetts - based company, formerly known as Smith & Wesson.

But one only has to glance at the weapons used in our nation's most prominent mass public attacks to recognize this claim as a myth:

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 bow (the weapon used some 3,000 years ago) he breaks apart and does cut the spear into pieces; The wagons (used in warfare) he burns in the fire.»

But be not afraid, because God's Scriptures are the weapons we use against this ardent foe of our life, whose only goal is to defeat your life.

The truth is not a weapon we use.

The weapons they use in their global war against the poor include deception and disinformation, which are targeted at the U.S. people.

His hatred is a disease that he spread to countless others, and a weapon he used to injure innocent lives.

I recognize that my understanding is hardly universal, but to me an «assault weapon» is «any weapon used in an assault» and can include fertilizer, fists, hammers, machetes, crowbars, broken bottles, etc..

The book essentially looks at the warfare tactics and military weapons used by various cultures in the Old Testament era.

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

Thus we live now with the fruits of the actions of early industrial capitalism, nuclear weapons used in World War II, the Green Revolution, widespread deforestation.

Killing civilians is the same whatever the type of weapon used.

If Kelley's conviction had been passed to the FBI, as required by law, the gunman wouldn't have been able to legally purchase some of the weapons he used in the deadly attack.

For them the bible is a weapon they use to pump themselves up and put others down.

In these battles over truth (many of which ended with actual battles with swords and spears and killing people), one of the theological weapons used was the idea of the Inspiration of Scripture.

But if Paul were writing the book of Ephesians today, and comparing our pieces of spiritual armor to the types of armor and weapons used in modern warfare, I think that he would have a very ready illustration of what this secret weapon is.

I can never say denying me sex was a weapon she used.

For instance the word «bow» (to bend at the waist), «bow» (part of a ship) and «bow» (the weapon used with arrows) are homographs.

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While some have argued that a limited use of force to discourage future chemical weapons use can be legal, most scholars regard the strikes as unlawful.

Indeed every other country which possesses nuclear weapons use exactly the same argument (deterrence) to maintain their right to possesses nuclear weapons, so why is only North Korea criticized?.

The campaigns for bans on cluster munitions, landmines, incendiary weapons, booby traps, poison gas, and biological weapons all used the binaries of civilised / uncivilised and responsible / irresponsible to bring their message across.

The ongoing campaign to ban nuclear weapons uses similar language.

Third - grade children in Missouri are selling raffle tickets for an AR - 15 rifle, the weapon used by the killer last week in the Florida school shooting and in a number of other mass shootings, to raise funds for their baseball team.

The horrors from the ground — with reports of chemical weapon use, cannibalism, massacres and accounts of sadistic torture — tells the story of a country that is spectacularly unravelling before our eyes.

However, President Obama in a CNN interview last week did seem to speak of self defence when he said «there is no doubt that when you start seeing chemical weapons used on a large scale... that starts getting to some core national interests that the United States has, both in terms of us making sure that weapons of mass destruction are not proliferating, as well as needing to protect our allies, our bases in the region.»

Sanders had said that Sandy Hook massacre victims shouldn't be able to sue gun manufacturers who made legal weapons used in the tragedy.

Chemical weapon use is very difficult to prove after 48 hours, so suspicions were raised when Syrian authorities only allowed UN weapons inspectors into the area to test yesterday, several days after the attack

If everyone got rid of their nuclear weapons would be that any state could secretly build nuclear weapons use them to bully other states around.

Ryan supports the Second Amendment, said a spokesman, «but he doesn't want the kind of assault weapons he used in combat in the hands of civilians.»

Especially for Trump Vs. Syria, you're hitting two birds with one stone: (a) you appease generally - anti-Shia-axis right wing hawks - especially as this also plays against Iran; (b) you appease anyone who doesn't like chemical weapons used against civilians across the spectrum on humanitarian angle.

«In the colonial and revolutionary war era, [small - arms] weapons used by militiamen and weapons used in defense of person and home were one and the same.»

A: Greens call the spoiler accusation a dishonest weapon used by major parties to eliminate competition from smaller parties.