Sentences with phrase «used for civilian uses»

Ins Tiimi, a company which lost the tender, did not agree, claiming that the equipment could be used for civilian uses as well.

Not exact matches

The State Department issued a statement about the call, saying «the secretary made clear the United States and its partners hold Russia responsible for this situation, including the use of incendiary and bunker buster bombs in an urban environment, a drastic escalation that puts civilians at great risk.»

Soldiers fighting in World War II were the first patients to receive the flu vaccine when it was approved for military use in 1945 and civilian use was approved the following year.

Both South Korea and Taiwan have advanced civilian nuclear programs and technical knowledge that could be used for a weapons program.

As for civilian applications, Duncan adds that the technology could be used for disaster relief or in difficult climates.

Eshel cautioned residents in southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, to leave their homes if a new conflict erupts, saying the Iranian - backed group uses civilian homes as «launching bases for missiles and rockets»

Damascus is still permitted to have chlorine for civilian use, although its use as a weapon is banned.

«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

The use of a range of estimated civilian deaths underscored the fact that the government often does not know for sure the affiliations of those killed.

According to Simpson, Waymo would be using public roads as its â $ laboratoriesâ $ and civilians as its â $ guinea pigs; â $ hence, it is only appropriate for the DMV to provide full transparency.

This spring, Citigroup said it would require business customers to restrict certain firearms sales, while Bank of America said it would stop lending to manufacturers that make military - inspired firearms for civilian use.

It was easily adapted for civilian use, with one major difference: Military versions can fire fully automatically — or in bursts of several shots — by depressing the trigger once.

So it's now illegal to manufacture new automatic weapons for civilian use.

The small - caliber, high - velocity rounds used in the military rifles are identical to those sold for the civilian weapons.

Russian warships heading for Syria could be used to target civilians in the besieged city of Aleppo, NATO Secretary - General Jens Stoltenberg warned on Tuesday, calling on Moscow to implement a lasting ceasefire.

No civilian should be able to access these weapons of war, which should be restricted for use by our military and law enforcement only.

AR -15-style rifles are a civilian variant of a standard service rifle used by the American military for more than a half - century.

During the question - and - answer session, a shareholder asked Moynihan how much business the bank was giving up because of its decision to stop lending to manufacturers of military - style guns sold for civilian use.

Unlike the military drones that are already operating in Mali, the Thales drones will be used to provide aerial surveillance for civilian operations such as humanitarian convoys.

(Can't expect decent people to fight next to coloreds, can't trust colored men in a battle, don't use the army for liberal politics, the soldiers are against it, the civilians don't know what they're doing, there's a war on and this isn't the right time, etc.) It was wrong then and it is wrong now.

If you can't name him right away, check Google... for reliability use Google to find out a report made public by the Johns Hopkins Universiity Blloomberg School of Public Health about the estimated figures on civilian casualties during the Iraq invasion... Just so you be aware that we too in America have our «Hitler», so publicly paraded in San Francisco, Rome and other places in the world during the height of the Iraqi invasion and make your own conclusion...

A disturbing new investigation from the United Nations (UN) and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and first reported by Reuters, has determined that Syrian government forces used deadly chlorine gas during attacks on its civilians.

He became part of a conspiracy against Hitler at the highest levels of the German government, using his role as a civilian agent in military intelligence as a cover for ecumenical contacts that allowed the conspirators to make tentative overtures toward a peace settlement with the British government.

Terrorism is a tactic used by armed men against civilians for political purpose in the anticipation that it will weaken the public's resolve to resist.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Israel must stop using civilian settlers as human shields for the land it is stealing.»

However, Isle Petit Anses salt deposits became a primary focal point of war efforts in the tug - of - war between the North and the South where salt was a vital commodity for civilian and military uses.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) provides advice and guidance to the Director of the CDC regarding use of vaccines and related agents for control of vaccine - preventable diseases in the civilian population of the United States.

Generally speaking, in a genuine military conflict between nations, it is not considered a war crime to target a military installation that is used by «combatants» in a conflict (as opposed to civilians or hospitals for the wounded, for example).

Insufficient attention to where British arms exports have ended up has been blamed by MPs for their use against civilians in conflict zones.

why is there no red line drawn for the rebels» use of a car bomb that killed 126 Shiite civilians in Aleppo Province on Easter Saturday?

FWIW, there are also international agreements banning the use of incendiary weapons, I believe, for similar reasons to chemical weapons (uncontrollable, indiscriminately harms civilians, etc).

If a «Red line» is drawn by the Obama administration over the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government, because it is unconventional weapons, why is there no red line drawn for the use of a car bomb that killed 126 civilians in Aleppo Province on Easter Saturday?

Chemical weapons differ from conventional weapons in that they are primarily used for killing civilians due to soldiers typically possessing the necessary protective gear (gas masks, etc)

That is why the hammer must be brought down on anyone using these things, it is not because they are militarily particularly effective, it is because if you are targeting the unprepared civilians they are very effective terror weapons for non state level actors and nobody wants the idea that you can get away with that gaining currency.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

The ceasefire agreement spelled out some details — for example, FARC members can prepare for reintegration into civilian life by using these zones, which will have a one - kilometer wide safety ring.

It was not a mistake for Obama to mention those red lines, because the use of chemical weapons against civilians does send the conflict towards an entirely new level of suffering and death.

Especially for Trump Vs. Syria, you're hitting two birds with one stone: (a) you appease generally - anti-Shia-axis right wing hawks - especially as this also plays against Iran; (b) you appease anyone who doesn't like chemical weapons used against civilians across the spectrum on humanitarian angle.

This summer when a Lake Katrine man was on trial for using a civilian drone outside a Town of Ulster medical building, Ulster County Assistant District Attorney Tom Colonna summed up «drone anxiety» by telling the jury that the machines «put human eyes in a place, like 30 feet in the air outside an exam room window, where human eyes normally wouldn't be.»

The resolution called for an «immediate ceasefire», and permitted the international community to use «all means necessary short of military occupation'to prevent further civilian casualties.

However, there are still situations where less violent options are far more likely to endanger the officers or civilians and thus using a gun is the prudent option, which for that reason is not being outlawed.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

She drew scrutiny for secretly meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad and criticizing the U.S. strike on Syria following Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians.

Automatic firearms are forbidden for civilian use.

I think you should update your question to address what ever mechinism you think should be used by the UN to address Japanese military action against a foriegn military asset.Though knowing china they are civilian drones trying to help build schools for children.

King blamed Hamas for firing its rockets from civilian locations and using civilians as human shields.

The Civilian Complaint Review Board, the police watchdog agency investigating the misconduct claim against Pantaleo and others, is also seeking the minutes — not for public use but for private investigative reasons.

Police commissioner Bill Bratton expressed concern Wednesday over Governor Andrew Cuomo's call to have an independent monitor investigate when unarmed civilians are killed by police and his proposal to create statewide minimum standards for police use of force.