Sentences with phrase «seen military use»

These devices, priced at thousands of dollars each, have also seen military use in Afghanistan and Iraq, even though they've been shown, under lab conditions, to be useless.

Not exact matches

For American readers, who are more used to seeing their military show its muscle, I should clarify: this is newsworthy in Canada.
The Maldives and Myanmar, both recipients of Chinese investment, also seen as possible areas that China's military could use.
You will see its use in military, economic, and business environments.
Nervous investors are waiting to see if the U.S. will launch a military strike on Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons.
We see the evils that military power can destroy (while ignoring all the evils it creates), and believe that similar tactics could be used to advance the cause of Christ.
how about we blame the stoneage workers who found metal in the ground and started using it to make stronger weapons... which evolved into guns, and without guns i can't see hilter doing as good as he did as he had little to no real military training.
That voters would pick someone to over see our nuclear weapons and be in charge of our military that has suspended their ability to fully use logic and reason.
Already so old that it was no longer in regular use by the local Wettin princes, the castle was for military and special occasions, for hunting parties and security, and would sometimes be used to house an unexpected guest who wished not to be seen in the town.
He had seen at last that he had the French beaten for the moment, that the Turks were contained, that he could make common cause with the Pope and could now at last use military force to bring the Protestant states to order.
Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.
I try to avoid doctors (I'm a military spouse and we don't often get to see the same doctor each time) who stick strictly to the «charts» and seek out doctors who use common sense (as in: what size are parents, parents weight - gain history, infants developmental milestones, siblings growth history, etc).
By using military forces in such cases, Putin demonstrates a consolidation between the people and the government - hence what you see on this chart.
Trump's dismissal of Shulkin, and the nomination of a Navy doctor with no known policy views to take his place, has brought renewed focus to an increasingly contentious debate over whether to give veterans the option of using the benefits they earned through military service to see private doctors rather than going to government hospitals and clinics.
Reports about the effectiveness of attacks on Tripoli and Brega last night are mixed, but the use of British and French Apache helicopters saw two military installations destroyed along with a radar site and an armed checkpoint.
«We strongly belief that President Buhari, must be seen to be acting contrary to court decisions on the use of Military during elections as clearly stated in the rulings of Justice Aikawa of the Federal High Court, who in his judgment, restrained the President and Commander - in - Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and INEC from engaging the service of the Nigerian armed forces in the security supervision of elections in any manner whatsoever in any part of Nigeria, without the Act of the National Assembly.
Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability to use it aggressively to expand or promote national interests; examples of militarist states include the United States, Russia and France.1 It may also imply the glorification of the military and of the ideals of a professional military class and the «predominance of the armed forces in the administration or policy of the state «2 (see also: stratocracy and military junta).
Its diplomats are deeply suspicious that Britain, the US and other western countries will use momentum at the UN to eventually call for a military intervention similar to that seen in Libya.
The UK has seen legal challenges to its military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan — an example of how the law can be used as part of a hybrid war strategy in on - going conflict.
See the related DISCOVER article about the U.S. military using virtual reality to train soldiers to handle pain.
I'm 37 and have been working out using military style (modern) exercises at intensity with minimal rest for 6 months and have seen results but cant shake my (thankfully small) tummy which is soft.
While replicas of military uniforms aren't used today, their influence can be seen in the precision tailoring valued in suiting today.
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Sandler stars as Sam Brenner - a King Of Kong-esque arcade whiz who, along with his childhood nemesis (Peter Dinklage), a young gaming prodigy (Josh Gad) and the military's advanced weapons specialist (Michelle Monaghan) must save the day using the tactics that saw him top high score boards 30 years earlier.
With so many games based off WWII or some sort of military operation in the Middle East, it was nice to see a new concept be used one that wasn't as «by the numbers».
He enters the film at around the 45 minute mark, and is only used to bark orders and act like every other hotshot military Colonel we see at the movies.
In a randomized controlled trial conducted at the United States Military Academy (West Point), the authors find that unrestricted laptop use reduces students» exam scores by 0.18 standard deviations relative to students for whom laptop use was prohibited; tablets reduce scores by 0.17 standard deviations (see figure).
For the past 75 years, we've seen the Jeep brand evolve from military - use vehicles that moved soldiers around camps to well - appointed softroaders — and everything in between.
According to Froats, Summerside, PEI, which claimed the 172 spot, was hurt because the military, which once used the town as a base, pulled out years ago; Prince Rupert, at 173, has seen its fortunes decline thanks to its underused port.
Due to the potential for a sedative effect, do not use in working dogs, such as seeing eye dogs or police and military dogs.
This may not come as a surprise, given that she is used in the police, the military, search and rescue and, as we have already seen, as a Guide dog.
In fact the Pit Bull was used as America's canine military mascot of the time as seen in such posters as these during wartime.
Use with caution in pets with liver or kidney disease Use with caution in older, debilitated animals, or those with certain types of glaucoma Use with caution in working dogs (military / police / seeing eye / hearing, etc.) as too much sedation may impede their ability to work and learn Pregnant and nursing animals Pets known to have had an allergic reaction to alprazolam or other benzodiazepine medications (ex.
They are commonly and effectively used in Police and Military work, Search and Rescue, and as a seeing eye dog.
You can see what used to be an aerodrome, that was later used as a military airfield at the time of the Spanish Civil War.
«In the last 20 years, global combat has seen a steady shift towards the use of private military corporations, or PMCs.
«I used to work in the AAA space, at Pandemic Studios here in LA, and I was working on Full Spectrum Warrior [a very serious military shooter], and someone says, «wouldn't it be crazy if you swung the camera around so quickly that you saw the camera crew and wouldn't that be hilarious,» but that would never be done in a million years.»
I'm from Brazil, and it's great to see the scenario of a slum being used not as a setting of a military shooter, not focusing on the crime, but focusing on the experience of someone who lives in there, with a subjective approach.
The American military used them during the Gulf War, and more recently, after a program handed them down to local police forces, Ziman said he had seen them in news reports about protests surrounding Black Lives Matter.
His projects, in various media, include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole; meditations on «the residual space of the American / Vietnam War» (comprising works on the squatting body as counter-architecture, military desertion as askesis, and surfing); a video essay on the site / non-site dialectic instigated by Robert Smithson's reception of Edgar Allan Poe (with a little help from Yvonne Rainer); a reconsideration of Marcel Duchamp's oeuvre as an discourse in ethics (as seen through Étant donnés); and «squatting projects» in various cities (Berlin, New York, Chicago, Vienna, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), where the squatting body, as a heuristic cipher, is conjugated by an interpretation generated by the conditions of each location.
Now we see that the U.S. Dept. of Defense will order the first conversion, http://www.cleanfleetreport.com/­plug-in-hybrids/­delivery-vans-plug-in/, This is good news; unlike the US Postal Service, the military has funds for such programs; it's now focusing on reducing petroleum use — and military bases teem with people - and cargo - movers of all sizes.
Given how much military technology gets transitioned into civilian use, it's only a matter of time before we see a civilian analog to the M - 25.
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs sharply criticized the NPR (see here in Russian), in particular, for lowering the threshold of the use of nuclear weapons and allowing the use of nuclear weapons in «extreme circumstances», which are not limited to military scenarios and with military scenarios covering almost any use of military force.
When we start to look at killer robots this way, we see that they are the mechanical realizations of much larger sets of institutional intentions, involving the plans of designers and the decisions of people who follow such plans, individuals who accept certain jobs, develop certain software and put such software to military use.
Jabil even sees potential uses cases in or for smart homes, the military, firefighters, and more.
They've seen even more military use since then.
For example, military personnel attempting to present their specialized training in a resume being sent out to civilian employers may not use the same terminology or job titles that Human Resources professionals are used to seeing in the typical job market.
Recently, I've been very happy to see transitioning military members using LinkedIn for their job search, as much as a year in advance of their separation.
Then take your military experience and write out your achievements using the words you have seen used most often.
When you use military language on your resume, your target employer is unlikely to see how your skills solves the employers» problems.
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