Sentences with phrase «of arms control»

After the Supreme Court halted the recount, resulting in Mr. Bush's victory, Dick Cheney, the new vice president, persuaded the incoming secretary of state, Colin L. Powell, to make Mr. Bolton an under secretary in charge of arms control.

Dr. Asaro and AAR Japan representatives also met with the director of the arms control and disarmament division at Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Yasushi Noguchi, to discuss the campaign's concerns over fully autonomous weapons and need for action.

The fight against cyber attacks is a form of arms control?

But at a workshop cosponsored by AAAS, experts said the crisis also was an inflection point, leading to agreements to limit nuclear testing and curb proliferation and driving a cohort of scientists and engineers into the fields of arms control and science diplomacy.

He detailed how the crisis propelled the United States and the Soviet Union into a limited ban on nuclear testing and then to a series of arms control agreements in ensuing years.

Yet it is a cornerstone of arms control agreements that both sides work under the same rules and restrictions.

That means bringing good scientific thinking to matters of arms control and intelligence and war and peace.

It is consistent to their world view and a prompt anticipation of the discussion of arms control which will inevitably follow.

Not exact matches

The Minuteman III can carry up to three nuclear warheads at once, but today, the missiles carry just one because of international arms control agreements.

Aim for small, controlled gestures to indicate leadership and confidence, and open gestures — like spreading your arms apart or showing the palms of your hands — to communicate that you have nothing to hide.

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.

The president should listen to Tillerson instead of unwisely matching Kim Jong Un's explosive rhetoric, warns Daryl Kimball from the Arms Control Association

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.

«And that's different for all of the marketing arms, who are used to controlling messages and crafting an image and a brand.

The Myo arm band allows users to control digital devices with a series of hand gestures.

Instead, different companies would make pieces of Baxter — the arms here, the electronic controls there, and so forth, with final assembly handled by yet another company.

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

«They wouldn't commit, and it was a sticking point,» said Max Bergmann, a former special assistant to the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security at the time those negotiations occurred.

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.

As George W. Bush's undersecretary of state for arms control, Bolton was a supporter of the invasion of Iraq and was confident that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

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.

«What set Flatiron apart was that it was able to create regulatory grade, real - world data,» O'Day tells Fortune — data that O'Day claims is so well curated, that it «could have theoretically replaced the «control» arm» of one of Roche's own clinical trials for the cancer immunotherapy drug Tecentriq.

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.

Diaz believes Republicans must look as if they care about keeping guns out of the hands of so - called homegrown extremists, while balancing issues of due process and the Constitution's Second Amendment right to bear arms that form the backbone of the NRA's opposition to gun control.

Softbank Group subsidiary ARM Holdings will cede control of its Chinese operations to a new joint venture involving itself and Chinese partners, Nikkei reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

But gun control advocates doubt that Trump really means what he says, after he ran for office warning that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would remove the constitutional right to bear arms and he rode into the White House with the firm backing of the NRA, which opposes most attempts at real change.

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.

But Australia also had fewer barriers than the United States to enacting gun control: There is no constitutional right to bear arms, and there are no pro-gun lobbying groups with the influence of the National Rifle Association.

Eramet, which is 25.6 per cent controlled by an investment arm of the French government, has apparently been invigorated over the past 18 months by the appointment of a new chief executive, Christel Bores, and by the material recovery of markets for its major products, manganese and nickel.

Instead, some of its creditors, including JPMorgan's asset management arm, will take control.

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.

A big open question is how much sway Nabiullina holds over the dominant top 10 banks, the six biggest of them controlled by arms of the federal government.

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.

T) subsidiary ARM Holdings will cede control of its Chinese operations to a new joint venture involving itself and Chinese partners, Nikkei reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

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

With every mass shooting, Republicans have been careful to avoid conversations around expanding background checks or imposing any kind of gun control measures, outside of arming more people.

While one of the primary goals of crisis preparedness is to develop a sense of empowerment and control, armed assailant drills not conducted appropriately may cause physical and psychological harm to students, staff, and the overall learning environment.

The wearable technology company is the maker of the Myo armband, which detects the electrical activity of arm muscles and translates them into computer input, so users can control technology using gestures.

Scientists have developed a program that lets monkeys control a virtual arm with brain waves, which they say could help paraplegics through the development of wearable exoskeletons.

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.

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 gatekeepers think they still control the bridge, but Amazon, Google, Apple and a legion of self - published authors and independent publishers have hacked off the legs and arms of the traditional publishing methods.

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.

Very small world: increasing need for regional or worldwide «zoning ordinances» for control of arms, technology, pollution, trade transportation, population, resource utilization, and the like

This anticommercialism causes the U.S. media to see red: they are certain that behind the bias lurks the long arm of Soviet control or, at the very least, that it represents a tilt toward communism.

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.