Sentences with phrase «used as a weapon of war»

According to Tearfund's Katie Harrison, who has visited many conflict and post-conflict situations around the world, rape is «constantly used as a weapon of war».

Sometimes I think I'd rather believe in a God that doesn't «answer» prayers than a God that gives me what I want for me and mine and lets children be raped or forced into drug habits and used as weapons of war.

Not only are the minerals gathered through abusive means and slave labor, they're also gathered where rape is used as a weapon of war over the mines.

Parental alienation is another form of covert violence where children are used as a weapon of war by one parent to alienate the other parent.

Not exact matches

Though the practice had been in use since the Korean War, Carlos Hathcock made the use of the M2.50 - caliber machine gun as a long - range sniper weapon a normal practice.

The UK has acknowledged that the intention of the strikes was not to turn the overall tide in the war and was essentially meant as a punitive action to compel Assad not to use chemical weapons.

So we have gotten to the point that public outcry against the use of rape as a weapon in war can be viewed as helping spread the very thing it is trying to fight.

It should be noted, however, that war continued, and continues, to be an instrument of statecraft — so long as it does not involve the use or threatened use of nuclear weapons.

using women and children as shield to protect weapons of war is evil in any civilized society.

But as I have noted, the actual face of recent warfare differs markedly from this, as it involves civil wars, uses of force by non-state actors, and massive harm to the innocent not from the use of horrific weapons but because they are made the direct targets of weapons ranging from knives to automatic rifles to suicide bombs.

'» The technical discussions as to when or whether nuclear weapons can be used without violating just war criteria are irrelevant unless the question of escalation can be answered with certainty.

If so, he should read Hartshorne's «Note» at the conclusion of Reality as Social Process, published in 1953.41 There he speaks of pacifism as error and afirms his conviction that the United States should not renounce the use either of strategic bombing or nuclear weapons in its «Cold War» with Russia.

Antagonism against the USA is further perpetrated by the leadership of the USA in Gulf War, military involvement in Somalia [both Muslim nations], and, as mentioned above, the continued economic blockade against Iraq and support and supply of weapons to the Israeli army (which has been used predominantly against the «intifada» [uprising] of the Palestinian youth beginning in 1987).

This legally questionable action risks escalating further, as US defence secretary James Mattis has admitted, an already devastating conflict and therefore makes real accountability for war crimes and use of chemical weapons less, not more likely.»

It also saddens me that we spend so much money on weapons of war, knowing that as soon as we make a better one, the others will only come up with even better ones causing us to have to spend more and more, that could be better used on more productive causes.

He will use them as leaders of a thousand and leaders of fifty; he will make them plow his plowland and harvest his harvest and make his weapons of war and the gear for his chariots.

They fight over who is going to have custody, they use the kids as weapons in a war of words, and they do their best to poison their children's minds against the other parent.

Every week at Burma Campaign UK we receive more reports of how the Burmese Army is using gang - rape as a weapon of war.

«As for the morality of that decision we have recently had both the memorial of the Halabja massacre where thousands of people were murdered in one day by Saddam's use of chemical weapons; and that of the Iran - Iraq war where casualties numbered up to a million including many killed by chemical weapons.

The ISIS group that has taken over several Iraq cities has also gained power over both its major rivers, allowing it to use water as a weapon of war

The US used to generate the isotope as a by - product of cold - war nuclear weapons programmes.

Dwight Duston, director of science and technology at the Pentagon's Star Wars office, says the free - electron laser, once trumpeted as a weapon for destroying incoming enemy missiles, could be used to produce a beam of high - quality X-rays that would reduce a woman's exposure to radiation during mammography.

This also holds true even for the items that were on the U.S. — China agenda at Mar - a-Lago, such as the future of war - torn Syria after Trump ordered a cruise missile strike in response to that nation's use of chemical weapons in its civil war.

If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.

At the same time, President Coin (Julianne Moore) becomes more transparent in her efforts to use Katniss as a propaganda weapon in the war for control of Panem — with Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth) at her side.

One of the things the film is about is the use of media as a weapon: this war of propaganda between RBSS on one side and ISIS — with its slick Hollywood - style productions — on the other.

Media and communications have a long history in being used as an instrument for peace or a weapon of war.

This resources describes what life as a soldier in the trenches would have been like, the more important role women played in the war than before and what sort of weapons were used in WW1.

Your character, War, pulls off flashy flowing combos using a variety of weapons such as a sword, scythe, and a gauntlet.

Using Gears of War as its gameplay base, combat feels good, shooting feels satisfying and with the addition of alternate fire modes combat feels varied, even if some weapons don't need it.

Although Occupation is centred around the mid-range shoot off opportunities it provides for players as they weave in and out of shop doorways draped with German war flags for cover, encircling the map are narrow streets and stairways that provide a more linear approach and clear line of sight, allowing for more long - ranged weapons to be used.

Inventory and the way you use resources such as fuel, ammunition, oxygen, ore, and weapons are important when surrounded by dozens of warring factions.

For example, the hammer is a slow, swinging weapon that is used to deliver massive single - hits that can knock off parts of a Behemoth, where as the chain blades and war pike are much more focused on constant damage - per - second (DPS) and can open - up wounds and weak spots on the enemies during battle.

Back to Baghdad takes players further into Kuwait as they try to neutralize scud missile installations, prevent the use of chemical weapons, free prisoners of war, and oust Hussein's Republican Guard from their entrenched position within Kuwait City.

Tales of Xillia takes you on a journey with Milla Maxwell, a spirit deity in human form, and Jude Mathis, a young student, as they try to stop a corrupt king using a deadly weapon in a war he's desperately trying to start.

The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War.

Found lots of good stuff, but in particular were the McNamara Report (Oct 1966) and the senate records etc showing we first used weather modification as a weapon of war in 1968.

«The name Lawfare refers both to the use of law as a weapon of conflict and, perhaps more importantly, to the depressing reality that America remains at war with itself over the law governing its warfare with others.»

On March 17, 2003, the United States was on the brink of war with Iraq, using as an excuse the ominous specter of weapons of mass destruction that even the government would later admit did not exist.

He has committed many of his most egregious war crimes strategically — sometimes to eliminate civilians who would rather die than live under his rule, sometimes to neuter an international order that occasionally threatens to limit his power, and sometimes, as with his use of chemical weapons, to accomplish both goals at once.