Sentences with phrase «past arms deals»

'' It is also clear, as has been shown so far by the outcome of the panel probing past arms deals, that the purchase of substandard weapons apparently resulted from the massive corruption that enveloped the deals, the kind of horrifying graft that saw the purchase of refurbished choppers that lacked rotors, or fighter jets that could not be deployed to the theatre of war because they were not up to par.

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The contractor is also a prime beneficiary of the White House's defense budget increase, as well as new arms deals with the likes of Saudi Arabia: Lockheed's stock price has risen some 26 % over the past year, handily beating the S&P, while revenue jumped 17 % in 2016.

Here they come like a herd of happy elk, down Newgate Street, turning off at St. Andrews, milling past an old cemetery with crazily angled headstones, thin and flat like long tea wafers, past the Northumberland Arms and Richard Charlton, Ltd., which deals in Bass ale, and up the hill to the ground, a starkly simple stadium with stands that are more like big sheds and unsophisticated light towers at each of the four corners.

In the past, where the police deployed fewer men than expected while at the same time police threaten from high roof to deal with miscreants, posed little or no deterrence to «macho» men and armed or militia groups loyal to political parties to visit mayhem on voters.

Immediate past president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, appeared in court on Friday to face corruption charges relating to a $ 2.5 billion arms deal.

The continuing probe of the diverted funds meant for arms deal during the former administration took another level following the arrest of the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosu by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).

Through it all, he has to deal with armed tribesmen, wild animals, a sandstorm, the heat, the cold, an enigmatic Berber, and the enigmatic Berber's daughter as well as hallucinogenic, taunting visions from his troubled past — all without taking a step.

Theatrical exhibition is dying, Fox is disappearing into the Disney fold — indie arm Fox Searchlight is operating «business as usual» this year, but it could very well be their last — and Netflix, driver of big deals in the recent past, has 80 films of their own slated already, so no one knows how much they're really looking to acquire (they were relatively quiet at TIFF last fall).

Rather than organize the exhibition chronologically — the work ranges from French Romantic Pierre - Jean David d'Angers» dramatic 1837 gilded bronze rendering of the Greek general and statesman Philopoemen to American artist Kiki Smith's 2005 porcelain Alice - in - Wonderland - like «Woman with Arm Raised» — Chiego decided to frame it in themes embodying ways sculptors have dealt with the human form over the past 200 years.