Sentences with phrase «war weapons in»

Van - Anh Vanessa Vo, a virtuoso of traditional Vietnamese instruments, plays instruments made of former war weapons in My Lai.

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By varying the sensors, similar technology could also become a major weapon in the war against food and wine fraud.

Lewis wrote, noting that such salted weapons were featured in the 1964 science - fiction Cold War parody film «Dr. Strangelove.»

The World War II - era German dictator, however, famously did use chemical weapons in gas chambers to exterminate millions of Jewish people, LGBTQ people, and others in Eastern Europe.

Nuclear weapons have been used exactly twice in combat — both times by the US, and both times dropped by a propeller aircraft over largely unprotected Japanese airspace at the close of World War II.

When Assad used chemical weapons a year later to kill 1,500 people outside Damascus, however, Obama wavered, saying he wanted to get approval from Congress before getting mired in another Middle East war.

The first, the Economic Opportunity Loan, was devised in 1964 as a weapon in Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty.

China sent weapons to 9 sub-Saharan countries and was the only one in the top three to send arms to South Sudan, a country whose oil industry and international standing are both threatened by an ongoing civil war.

Even if it took 10 or 15 years of relentless diplomatic pressure from the joint efforts of the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan to convince Kim Jong - un to give up his weapons and doing so resulted in the eventual denuclearization of the peninsula — and successfully deterred war — it would be a major victory for U.S. foreign policy and secure our vital national interests.

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The new armaments don't make the Stryker a fighting vehicle, but Meissel said the search for heaftier weapons stems from the reduction in manpower in Europe from 300,000 during the Cold War to about 30,000 now.

That's why these small guided missiles have become the RAF weapons of choice since the Air War over Libya back in 2011.

Eric Brammer, 30, an information technology specialist from Roanoke, Virginia, who describes himself as Democrat, said he expects tensions to continue over Russia's support of the government of President Bashar Assad in civil war - wracked Syria, where the U.S., Britain and France last week launched missile strikes against Syrian chemical weapons facilities.

Thankfully, there are weapons in the war on spam that companies can use to make sure their legitimate marketing messages aren't mistaken for spam.

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.

At first glance, uniforms worn during Vietnam are remarkably similar to those worn during the Korean War, but as the war wore on, modifications in basic weapons, clothing and equipment came rapidly as the Army tried to solve the special problems encountered in hot and humid VietnWar, but as the war wore on, modifications in basic weapons, clothing and equipment came rapidly as the Army tried to solve the special problems encountered in hot and humid Vietnwar wore on, modifications in basic weapons, clothing and equipment came rapidly as the Army tried to solve the special problems encountered in hot and humid Vietnam.

UN war - crimes investigators had previously documented 33 chemical attacks in Syria, attributing 27 to the Assad government, which has repeatedly denied using the weapons.

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.

An efficient data - driven returns process is a strategic weapon that smart retailers can leverage in the war against product returns and decreasing margins.

But it's a business issue first and foremost, and a crucial weapon in the talent wars.

Their smart phones are lethal weapons in the attention war.

Senator Bernie Sanders, a sponsor of the resolution, said the United States, a major provider of weapons to Saudi Arabia and intelligence and logistical support to the Saudis in Yemen, should not be involved in the three - year - old war that has unleashed the worlds worst humanitarian crisis.

The Wall Street Journal in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter of life or death, and at that point, what happens in the stock market is meaningless.»

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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been criticised for his support of the Syrian government, which was accused of launching a chemical weapons attack in the war torn nation.

As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, a war with North Korea is the markets» biggest geopolitical black swan, because it would likely be cataclysmic, with hundreds of thousands dead, the world's fifth - largest metro area, Seoul, suffering massive destruction, and perhaps even nuclear or chemical weapons unleashed on Japan or U.S. bases in the region.

The shadow war between Israel and Iran in Syria is heating up, and on Monday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised the stakes by revealing that Tehran is secretly maintaining its nuclear - weapons program.

Just 20 years after WWII, the West German army proposed a plan to use chemical weapons against the Soviet Union and its allies in the event of war.

«And I don't understand why I could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war.»

«The most powerful weapon against counterfeiting today is data and analytics, and the only way we can win this war is to unite,» Alibaba's chief platform officer, Jessie Zheng, said in the statement.

«I don't understand why I can still go in a store and buy a weapon of war, an A-R,» Mr. Zeif said, referring to the AR - 15 rifle.

In 2013, the former leader said the use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war would trigger an American military responsIn 2013, the former leader said the use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war would trigger an American military responsin Syria's civil war would trigger an American military response.

... I don't understand why I can can still go in a store and buy a weapon of war» Sam Zeif was on the second floor of the Parkland, Florida, school where 17 people died after a mass shooting.

A little longer ago there was the murder of the abortion provider in Topeka, and who could forget that little war in Iraq (that we all know was about religion and oil, not weapons of mass destruction)

As church peace activists relentlessly chanted, during the Cold War America was often racist, indifferent to poverty, supported dictatorships, deployed nuclear weapons that could kill millions, and slew countless thousands in proxy wars.

2 Corinthians 10:3 — 4 comes to mind: «For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.»

The Vatican holds millions in stock in weapons manufacturing... assault weapons, weapons of war.

«All our talk about peace and the weapons of the spirit is meaningless unless we try in every way to embrace voluntary poverty and not work in any position, any job that contributes to war... We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family... And we will be considered fools for Christ.»

So if I have a business and my religion teaches that war and weapons of war are immoral... My business doesn't have to pay taxes because some of those taxes will be used to buy weapons or to support the war in Afghanistan???

What if, someone in the government decides that it would save lives and shorten the war if we used nuclear weapons again?

Iraq was a target for Wolfowitz in a grand strategy predating the 9/11 attacks, and it is in light of this strategy that one should understand President Bush's comment that the Iraq war was justified even though no weapons of mass destruction were found.

In these days of Enron, Martha Stewart and wars waged on behalf of phantom weapons, we know better than to defend dishonesty.

In 1945 Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, recommended to President Truman the use of nuclear weapons against Japan to hasten the end of the war and save the Allied forces an estimated 1 million casualties in an assault upon mainland JapaIn 1945 Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, recommended to President Truman the use of nuclear weapons against Japan to hasten the end of the war and save the Allied forces an estimated 1 million casualties in an assault upon mainland Japain an assault upon mainland Japan.

There is a much more serious issue behind the percieved need for military - style weapons: many U.S. citizens, especially in the South after the Civil War, do not trust the Federal Government.

As the big lie grows that nuclear war can be won, the illusion grows that the ability to destroy other nations with nuclear weapons is the supreme exemplification of unilateral power in human affairs.

The militant atheist Richard Dawkins uses science as a weapon in his war against religion.

While repudiating the notion that nuclear war in any circumstance can be a just war, the bishops say that they will tolerate for now the possession of nuclear weapons as long as serious efforts are made toward arms control.

The weapons they use in their global war against the poor include deception and disinformation, which are targeted at the U.S. people.

On October 2, David Kay, the U.S. inspector in charge of finding weapons of mass destruction, reported to Congress that he had found no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, although their existence was one of the major rationales for going to war with Iraq.

These studies make it clear that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war and, in particular, about three issues — the link between Iraq and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.