Sentences with phrase «of gunboat»

Australia threatened a bit of gunboat diplomacy, announcing that it would dispatch a patrol boat (the guns would have been removed, actually) and aircraft to shadow the Japanese whalers.

Perhaps trade and warfare were equivalent back in the days of gunboat diplomacy (a favoured U.S. strategy in Asia in bygone days), but absent a willingness to engage in armed confrontation, today trade and warfare are fundamentally different.

Not exact matches

The U.S. and Mexico already have relatively free trade, so absent gunboat diplomacy to force Mexicans to buy more U.S. exports, all the U.S. can really do is restrict the amount of imports from Mexico by erecting new trade barriers.

Conversely, if gunboat diplomacy is an option, you can use threats to become the monopoly purchaser of a country's exports and force them to trade at an unfavourable price.

Of course, Ross's sabre rattling could be the precursor to some gunboat diplomacy (although the White House claims that President Trump was just joking about sending in U.S. troops in his call with the Mexican President).

Alexis Tsipras was on course on Monday night to sway radical - leftist Syriza MPs to accept the most draconian rescue of a sovereign nation since the second world war, after the Greek prime minister accepted a third bailout programme that one analyst said came after a weekend of «gunboat diplomacy».

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

«Finally I told them I was taking at least one of the boats out of there, and to hell with the Cuban gunboats.

The accusation among many on the Left is that it is a convenient mask for engaging in ideological «gunboat» politics, concealing the true nature of the Right's agenda to drastically cut back public provision.

Other historians point to the arrival of British gunboats in the 1830s, when industrialising Europe collided with ancient China, as the dawn of China's modern age.

«With the heavy presence of 100 Gunboats, 4 Warships and Jet Bombers NDA blew up Chevron Oil Well RMP 23 and RMP 24 3:44 am this Morning», it stated.

The Assange standoff at the Ecuadorian embassy suggests that things haven't changed much since a century or more ago, when our preferred method of resolving a diplomatic dispute was to send in a gunboat or two.

Aftermath of the outbreak of the confrontation between Ogbe - Ijaw and Aladja communities on Friday, resulting in sporadic shooting and the pandemonium that followed, the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Delta deployed two naval gunboats and its Special Boat service operatives to the riverside scene.

It also accused Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, of «gunboat» diplomacy in dealing with councils.

A statement by Force Public Relations Officer, Mr Olabisi Kolawole, said: «Meanwhile, the Police have commenced extensive security operations in the state, including the deployment of plainclothes detectives and surveillance helicopters for aerial patrols, while gunboats and speed boats will complement the Police Marine Unit to convey security personnel and election materials to riverine communities.

The Commander of the outfit, Rear Admiral Joseph Okojie, said on Monday that the troops recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition, adding that a military gunboat seized from the soldiers was also recovered.

«Three suspects were arrested and a large quantity of arms, ammunition and the gunboat that was taken from Nembe on August 8,2016 were recovered.»

It was learnt that the hoodlums also forced one of the surviving soldiers to operate the military gunboat that was seized from the troops, because it was too complex for their own men.

The gunmen, who were dressed in mourning outfit as if they were on a funeral procession, ambushed the detachment of the ODS, killed the soldiers and carted away their arms, ammunition and military gunboat.

According to him, among the items recovered from the suspected hoodlums include nine AK 47 rifles, an FN rifle, four HK 21 MGs, one G3 MG, three GPMGs, 20 AK 47 magazines, two G3 magazines, one FN magazine, one container of gunpowder, the gunboat seized from the murdered soldiers and military accoutrements.

The CDS made the disclosure Wednesday at the inauguration of 25 locally built gunboats donated to Nigerian Navy unit, NNS Pathfinder, in Port Harcourt.

«Delivery of the additional 50 gunboats will ensure that the nation's backwaters are saturated with patrol boats for improved security of our maritime domain.

Olonishakin expressed optimism that the 25 gunboats newly acquired by the Nigerian Navy would help in drastically reducing oil theft, sea piracy and other forms of illegalities in the nation's maritime environment.

According to him, the gunboats which have reached advance stages of completion will be fitted with anti-ballistic protection and latest technology.

Today's gunboat diplomacy gravely threatens the integrity of these negotiations.»

He said the troops also recovered arms, ammunition and the gunboat that was carted away from the Nembe attack of August 8.

The West African body has been engaging in «gunboat diplomacy» - putting on a show of force to make Yahya Jammeh realise he has to step aside or be forced out.

She must accompany the colossal gunboat enforcer on his rounds as part of her ongoing assessment.

The admiral identified with the phrase «gunboat diplomacy» is hardly the right person to stand for Richie, tireless interpreter, apologist and connoisseur of all things Japanese.)

Did I say that this car, all 17 feet and two and one - quarter tons of it, costs only half to two - thirds as much as the other big gunboats?

Here you're able to snorkel and uncover the leftovers of an old army gunboat that Mother Nature has taken over throughout the years.

But most people come to Isla Perro for snorkeling in and around the shipwreck gunboat that lies around 50 meters in front of the beach, when tide is low you can see it hitting the sea surface.

The game does make up for it with some excellent use of licensed music though, and the gunboat level back up by Sympathy for the Devil will remain one of my favorite COD experiences for a long time to come.

A new game mode introduces War Thunder Naval Battles, pitting players against each other on land, sea and air in a variety of historic small gunboats.

Without the gunboats nothing is going to happen until we do get rid of the UN and put rational HONEST humans in their place.