Sentences with phrase «potential as a weapon»

Ok, scissors have limited potential as a weapon but, in the right hands, they can be lethal — hence encouraging a more attentive response.

Previously a reporter, writer and editor with Newsweek magazine, she is also author of The Forgotten Cure, which is about bacteriophage viruses and their potential as weapons against antibiotic resistance.

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«(I had) this dream that from a tiny acorn, the potential of a young person, could grow this massive oak tree... as Nelson Mandela said: «Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.»

(New throughout, updates prices, market activity and comments; adds second byline and NEW YORK dateline) NEW YORK / LONDON, April 10 (Reuters)- Gold prices rose on Tuesday, hitting their highest in nearly a week as the U.S. dollar weakened and investors awaited potential U.S. action against suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria.

NEW YORK / LONDON, April 10 - Gold prices rose on Tuesday, hitting their highest in nearly a week as the U.S. dollar weakened and investors awaited potential U.S. action against suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria.

«FedEx views assault rifles and large capacity magazines as an inherent potential danger to schools, workplaces, and communities when such weapons are misused.

As tensions escalate between the US and China, one crop is emerging as the most powerful weapon in a potential trade war: the soybeaAs tensions escalate between the US and China, one crop is emerging as the most powerful weapon in a potential trade war: the soybeaas the most powerful weapon in a potential trade war: the soybean.

-- When you have to choose toys with the forethought of whether it can be used as a potential weapon or not.

A plastic spork has just as much weapon potential as a plastic knife so his response does not hold up.

The current debate tends to remove the focus from nuclear weapons themselves as the referent of threat and transfers it to particular potential possessors and users of the threat.

With 2016 on the horizon, it's tantalizing to see this as the kick - off that campaign, especially as Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, a potential Democratic primary rival, makes a similar play for banning assault weapons in his state.

«Even if Seth Agata is as wise as Solomon and pure as the driven snow, he used to be one of Governor Cuomo's top people, and there are inherent questions about whether he can be impartial and completely non-political, rather than a potential political weapon for the governor.»

Governments started to understand radio's immense potential, not only for communications but also as a weapon: radio detecting and ranging, better known as radar.

But in the post-9 / 11 mind - set, nuclear plants loom as potential terrorist targets and as possible sources of raw material for nuclear weapons.

«Vitamin C is cheap, natural, non-toxic and readily available so to have it as a potential weapon in the fight against cancer would be a significant step.»

The botulinum toxin has also been identified as a potential biological weapon against a civilian population.

As nuclear technology spread beyond the major superpowers, this potential application led to worries over uncontrolled proliferation of atomic weapons to other states or even to terrorist groups.

Many of the folks who are involved in building the last round of nuclear weapons or even the first round of nuclear weapons are either passing away or retiring or otherwise their knowledge is becoming inaccessible; and of course there are records, but there is, as many physicists who I interviewed said, «There is nothing like learning by doing and if we want to maintain the ability to build nuclear weapons for the indefinite future, then some argue that we need to continue to build them to train up this next generation of potential nuclear weapon scientists.»

Having now surmounted the corn challenge gives researchers confidence to tackle even more complex crop genomes, such as wheat and barley — other potential weapons in fighting global hunger.

War shaped Einstein's life, from his fierce pacifism after witnessing the Nazis» rise to power to his early advice to FDR on developing atomic energy as a potential weapon.

Payne researches autoimmunity, and a few years ago, a postdoctoral researcher in her laboratory, Christoph T. Ellebrecht, MD, took an interest in CAR T cell technology as a potential weapon against B cell - related autoimmune diseases.

As evolutionarily conserved weapons, bacteriocins have great potential as alternatives to conventional antibiotics.&raquAs evolutionarily conserved weapons, bacteriocins have great potential as alternatives to conventional antibiotics.&raquas alternatives to conventional antibiotics.»

Next Wave asked: If research on gene vectors can be used not only to further gene therapy but also — potentially — to aid in the development of biological weapons, should scientists be concerned about the potential applications of their research in genetics (as Joseph Rotblat suggested in a 19 Nov 1999 editorial in Science magazine?)

These treatments also have potential for treating nerve damage resulting from chemical weapons such as sarin, nerve gas and other chemical agents.

Japan's FBR program complicates efforts to control the spread of weapons - usable materials and potential proliferators use Japan as an alibi to justify their own programs.

The use of resistant wheat strains limits its effectiveness as a biological weapon, but it still has the potential to be dangerous.

The opening mission introduces us to three of a titular twelve potential agents you can choose to team up over the course of the game; the all - rounder in the shape of Hollywood, who's as quick with the quips as he is with his weapons, the heavy and wonderfully named Ishmael «Hardtack» Funderburke who has quite the walloping shotgun and a teleporting harpoon special to boot, and finally the speedy scout, Fortune, who has the ability to deploy a drone capable of stunning enemies around her.

While ostensibly a shooter — and a shooter with a respectable variety of guns at your disposal at any given time — Incursion follows the tradition of Half - Life and Dead Rising by inviting you to see every item around you as a potential melee weapon.

There's huge potential for Spawn since he can use his cape / chains, blades, spikes and guns as weapons, not to mention using other characters for fatalities like Clown.

When the wife of a North Korean diplomat in Pakistan dies under suspicious circumstances, O is told to investigate, with a curious proviso: Don't look too closely at the details, and stay away from the question of missiles... Nuclear Showdown by Gordon Chang: Before his recent death, Kim Jong Il - or «The Great Leader», as he called himself - possessed an arsenal of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that had the potential to decimate almost any point on the planet, and North Korea said it might sell weapons to others, thereby making itself the first «nuclear Kmart».

In addition to Vietnam, they saw the potential hot spots as a fight over gold and the dollar, growing freedom in the Soviet Union's Eastern satellite countries, and the launching of a Soviet space weapons system.

I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for reaching our human potential as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.

Here are some of their answers: Hold my keys as a potential weapon.

Fortunately, thanks to increased foreign weapons sales, a recovery in corporate jet sales that is currently underway, as well as a very strong history of buybacks (which lowers the payout ratio and allows for longer, stronger dividend growth), General Dynamics has potential to generate 8 % to 10 % bottom line growth in the coming years.

In addition, scent discrimination training is being used to help match a potential suspect to an object such as a weapon used in a crime.

A sprawling complex of off - shore platforms Mother Base acts as a physical representation of your power and progress within the game, a safe - zone from which to develop new tools of war that you pick out from an impressive list of potential weapons, gadgets and more that constantly subtly alter how you tackle each mission.

This means Bungie can balance weapons easier, but on the flipside, it gives players less incentive to keep collecting weapons to try and get the perfect editions of their favourites - something which Smith acknowledges as a potential problem it hopes to solve in the game one day.

One element that is also quite interesting is that switching between your four potential weapons whilst very direct, as it lacks the scrolling dead zone selection seen in the earlier Armored Core games, each weapon has a very nice mechanical animation for its selection.

Mercifully, power - ups are no longer random either which helps alleviate any potential frustration, as the weapon types are set when you equip them before a race.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Our complex gameplay mechanics such as weapon modifications with 53 available weapon skins and over 200 attachments, crafting system and huge arsenal, couldn't achieve its full potential without the unique sniping mechanics system we created that every sniper fan falls in love with.

As with every additional DLC, the number of potential buyers decreases, and as we already had to work hard to make the 4th player ship as well as the new weapons, devices and consumables meaningful additions, we decided to not release another add - on for this installmenAs with every additional DLC, the number of potential buyers decreases, and as we already had to work hard to make the 4th player ship as well as the new weapons, devices and consumables meaningful additions, we decided to not release another add - on for this installmenas we already had to work hard to make the 4th player ship as well as the new weapons, devices and consumables meaningful additions, we decided to not release another add - on for this installmenas well as the new weapons, devices and consumables meaningful additions, we decided to not release another add - on for this installmenas the new weapons, devices and consumables meaningful additions, we decided to not release another add - on for this installment.

Commercial success was used as a weapon against this work, popularity or potential popularity with the public being a sign of artistic unimportance.

LRF: I realized the potential for using the camera as a weapon as described by Gordon Parks in his autobiography A Choice of Weapons [1966] when I first saw his photograph American Gothic [1942] in my photography class in 2000 when we were given an assignment to show a photograph with what Roland Barthes called a punctum (the thing that pricks you) and a studium (the subject) in a photograph.

Kurtz called 911; the medics arrived, as did the police; they took a look around; they saw all the scientific apparatus and petri dishes filled with «powders»; they confiscated Hope's body; and then they arrested Kurtz for possible murder and for being a potential maker of weapons of mass destruction.

I agree with parts of your description and potential impact of so - called «whiplash» science, although I would prefer not to create yet another frame that can be used as a linguistic weapon down the road.

Carr described «the potential of a $ 20 billion market» as some 40 countries race to develop autonomous weapons.

Concerns are increasing over the potential impact of fully autonomous weapons under human rights law, which applies during peacetime as well as armed conflict.