Sentences with phrase «of weapon control»

Not exact matches

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

Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control added six individuals and 10 companies and other entities to its sanctions list, saying they have helped people previously penalized for North Korea's weapons development, facilitated North Korea's energy sector and enabled entities to bypass sanctions to get access to the U.S. and international financial system.

As the DOJ's complaint against the merger argues, the resulting conglomerate might «use its control of Time Warner's popular programming as a weapon to harm competition» by raising the prices it charges other cable networks for Time Warner entertainment or limiting distribution of content from other producers.

But the central thesis of «The Bomb,» and one Schlosser made strongly in «Command and Control» (which also premiered at Tribeca as a documentary film adaptation), is that mortifying accidents have happened, and will happen again: People are human and nuclear weapons are machines.

The department controls the radioactive materials - plutonium, uranium and tritium - used in Americas nuclear weapons and in the reactors of nuclear - powered aircraft carriers and submarines.

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.

In hindsight, creating nuclear weapons and controlled fission in the form of nuclear energy was easy.

The US, France, and the UK carried out Friday's joint operation in response to a devastating chemical weapons attack in the rebel - controlled Damascus suburb of Douma, which killed dozens of people earlier this month.

Since his push to enact a ban on assault weapons and wider background checks for gun owners collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2013, gun control has slipped down the list of White House priorities, below a legacy - building Iran deal, an opening with Cuba and reform of the immigration system.

He told me he's done the research on different gun control proposals, and opposes nearly all of them, telling me that ideas lifted up by his Parkland classmates (like lowering magazine capacity or reinstating the federal assault weapons ban) are «likely unconstitutional and likely statistically devoid of benefit.»

In a statement, UN Secretary - General Antonio Guterres called on the Security Council to reach an agreement on the «continued use of chemical weapons» in Syria and cautioned the situation could quickly spiral out of control if it didn't.

The risk of an inadvertent nuclear war is rising because of the entanglement of non-nuclear weapons with nuclear weapons and their command - and - control capabilities.

Congress might raise the age from 18 to 21 to buy assault weapons: This policy hasn't really been on the radar of gun - control advocates, who would prefer tightly regulating or banning these kinds of weapons.

Once it became clear that a majority of the Florida Legislature was not inclined to ban all assault weapons, Senator Oscar Braynon, a Democrat, proposed an amendment to the gun control bill that would have halted AR - 15 sales for two years.

The madcap meeting with Trump on guns, which was meant to add clarity and more urgency to the debate, instead saw the president undermining the importance of «due process,» calling for «comprehensive» gun control, and even humoring the idea of an assault weapons ban — all somewhat unexpected positions for a GOP president to hold.

But the law doesn't do anything to regulate gun sales or to restrict the sale of assault - style weapons like the AR - 15; it's far from what the students listed in their demands on gun control.

Those who speak out against abortion and family practice and at the same time support cuts in education, school lunch funding, decry reasonable control of weapons and other programs that help children can not call themselves Christians.

In recent years there has risen a new type of the same concern in that the advancement of human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces by means of science and technology has created life threatening situation in terms of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention of the natural process with the unforseen consequences.

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.

These «Remote Mind Control» weapons, according to the diagrams in the file, are capable of everything from «forced memory blanking» to «sudden violent itching inside eyelids» to «wild flailing» followed by «rigor mortis.»

I have read through this book a couple of times and I can't recall ever noting a spot where control of weapons was mentioned by God.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

Jesus often refeared to the scriptures when he would say «it is written» when He was under attack from the devil and the teachers of the law, they used the scriptures as a weapon to control the people and they tried the same strategy with Jesus and when it did not work the plotted to shut Him up.

Rules of war worked then about as well as now when it is the control of atomic weapons that is the desired goal of those who would make war more humane.

If the United States were to be the first to release this new means of indiscriminate destruction upon mankind, she would sacrifice public support throughout the world, precipitate the race for armaments, and prejudice the possibility of reaching an international agreement on the future control of such weapons.

For specific information on the illegal weapons shipments and flow of drugs, see Leslie Cockburn, Out of Control (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987).

They continued to warn the public of the destructive power of atomic weapons and the urgent need for international controls.

The Romans found out that by working with the various popes of the time they could far better control the masses with religion than with weapons.

Failure to control population, the possibility of the possession of atomic weapons by dozens of nations, the issues of race and colour which affect every society and every civilization, disclose the human condition shared by all.

By contrast, the National Security Strategy paper speaks not of permanent superiority but of leadership, calls for a secure presence in space but not control of it (or cyberspace), implies the possibility of regime changes without stating it explicitly, and does not mention developing smaller nuclear weapons.

The most striking instance is the small group of military men who control nuclear weapons.

Especially important in supplying such information are books, magazines, newspapers, radio, and television, through which the public can best be kept continually abreast of developments and possibilities both in weapons technology and in efforts toward armament reduction and control, and can be made aware of the nature and scope of the peril in which the world stands so long as war remains the ultimate resort in the settlement of international differences.

In the resolutions adopted by the Evanston Assembly there is stated as one of the «two conditions of crucial importance which must be met, if catastrophe is to be averted»: «The prohibition of all weapons of mass destruction; including atomic and hydrogen bombs, with provision for international inspection and control, such as would safeguard the security of all nations, together with the drastic reduction of all other armaments.

Since it is almost impossible to aim or control the spray of shot, riot guns are also the least discriminating of weapons.

Until the monster weapons of the nuclear powers are controlled by world structures of peace and justice, mankind flirts daily with extinction.

speeds of communication by 107 speeds of travel by 102 speeds of data processing by 106 energy resources by 103 the power of weapons by 106 the ability to control diseases by about 102

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.»

RM: so you're upset that art which may include depictions of violence will likely not have more controls placed on it, yet weapons that are the direct enabler of mass violence might have more controls placed on it?

Meanwhile, as the local churches were revolting against overall control, there was widespread revolt against the power of the ministers in the local churches until «after the Reforming Synod [of 1697], the clergy found themselves shorn of every weapon except moral persuasion, and their threat of [Divine] vengeance.»

Private Brands are no longer secret weapons, they have become the new norm to have more control of a brand and to grow gross profits.

1) Offensive line — they can't control the trenches on offense and way too much talent on the d - line within the division to ignore that area 2) Offensive weapons — primarily weapons within the middle of the field (i.e. — TE, slot WR, and RB) 3) ILB depth — not much behind the starters 4) CB — need extra depth 5) EDGE — need additional pass rush opposite Von and depth

A Patriot Fire Control Enhanced Operator / Maintainer operates and maintains one of the world's most advanced missile systems — Patriot; the center piece weapon system of the Army's air defense mission against multiple air threats to include ballistic missile, cruise missiles, and aircraft of all types.

As an essential member of the Army's weapons maintenance team, the PATRIOT system repairer is primarily responsible for performing field level maintenance on the PATRIOT system, a combat missile system that features a phased array radar set and control station.

Isn't that like support the soldiers and not the government who sends them to far flung countries to capture resources and control of pipelines under the pretence that they are a threat and have nuclear weapons.

Not that a comparison to Arjen Robben is appropriate yet of course — but Mahrez has speed and control and could be something of a secret weapon come August.

Forcing sex Withholding sex Rude stories or gestures Double standards Using sex as a weapon Punishing you for not complying Making sexual threats with objects Talking dirty Laughing at you Shaming Intimidation to do unwanted acts beyond comfort level Sex as a form of control Sexualizing in public Rape Possessiveness Mocking of body parts Accusations Sex for favors Pornography

This is an in - depth and far - reaching conversation that includes dialogue about euthanasia, blood transfusions, medical experimentation without consent, research fraud, vaccines as biological weapons, autism, the rape of autistic children, the rape of medical patients — especially during hospital birth, birth trauma, trauma - based mind - control, circumcision, satanism / luciferianism, psychopathy, Agenda 21, and the deliberate attempt to kill and / or render infertile and / or genetically mutate the human race.

Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro recently acknowledged that «militias have control of the MANPADS... and other loose weapons».

The recent death of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and other State Department personnel only underscores the difficulties the Libyan government has had in asserting authority over a country that has yet to recover from the wounds of revolution, and perhaps more worryingly, still has little control over the weapons of revolution.

Some of these components may be innocuous in themselves but, once outside EU control, they can be incorporated into weapons systems that may then be exported on to countries the EU would not otherwise supply military equipment to.»