Sentences with phrase «weapon used by»

Calls to ban the semiautomatic weapon used by the shooter were considered a non-starter in a Republican Congress where lawmakers are heavily influenced by the National Rifle Association.

Axios reported Saturday that Bank of America is looking into how it does business with companies that manufacture AR - 15 rifles, the weapon used by Cruz and other mass shooters.

Guttenberg demanded that Rubio look at him and defend his position against banning the weapons like the AR - 15, the weapon used by Stoneman Douglas shooter Nikolas Cruz.

The M1 Garand rifle, the famous standard - issue weapon used by the U.S. during the war, makes its return, complete with the classic «ping» sound effect as a clip is ejected.

A key political weapon used by governments to exert pressure on a particular country or regime to encourage a change in behaviour or compliance with certain objectives.

A Part 18 Request is also a weapon used by litigators to put pressure on an opponent.

Social media evidence is often admissible in court and is a potent weapon used by defense lawyers when disputing the merits of a plaintiff's personal injury claim.

It is â $ œlook before you leapâ $ on steroids and a major legal weapon used by environmentalists and neo-Luddites everywhere to hamstring human progress.

While many in the media portrayed the phenomenon as a desperate weapon used by sceptics to undermine climate science, real scientists took notice and began to study the warming pause.

The fortifications of the planetary defense line turned out to be not effective against the powerful energy weapon used by the aliens.

The weapon used by the protagonist is a one - handed sword.

Prior to 9/11, some airport security teams even allowed passengers to take box cutters aboard (the weapon used by the 9/11 hijackers).

If Sir Kipling is indeed right and words are the most powerful weapon used by mankind, perhaps we can endeavor to begin with the words we chose in the classroom to create teams, tribes and leaders instead of managing disruption, mitigating damage and controlling our classrooms.

Some strawberry companies even use chloropicrin, a chemical weapon used by the German army in World War 1!

Rat poison is often used, and many cigarettes contain Acrolein, a chemical weapon used by the Germans in World War 1.

During the bombardments, some of the arms cache of the terrorists group including grenades, Shilka gun shells (Shilka is a dreaded weapon used by the Nigerian Army Artillery Corp) and several ammunition for GPMG guns and AK 47 rifles were recovered.

Among the most prominent proposals that legislative leaders have said they favor are closing loopholes in the state's ban on assault weapons so that it covers the Bushmaster AR - 15 rifle, the weapon used by 20 - year - old Adam Lanza in the Newtown killings.

A: Greens call the spoiler accusation a dishonest weapon used by major parties to eliminate competition from smaller parties.

Third - grade children in Missouri are selling raffle tickets for an AR - 15 rifle, the weapon used by the killer last week in the Florida school shooting and in a number of other mass shootings, to raise funds for their baseball team.

The company manufactured the AR -15-style weapon used by the gunman in the 2012 attack in Newtown, Conn., in which 26 people, including 20 first graders, were killed.

Sen. Rand Paul, R. - Ky., and Rep. Mo Brooks, R. - Ala., who were both at the baseball field, described the weapon used by the shooter as a rifle.

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

North Dakota officials said the explosion that injured the woman was still under investigation, but injuries to her arm were not the result of any tools or weapons used by law enforcement.

And in this respect the smart suits, smooth patter and glossy office meeting rooms in the City suddenly take on a more sinister edge as classic weapons used by a «con - man» (which you will remember is the abbreviation of confidence man) to propagate a belief that turns out to be untrue.

The book essentially looks at the warfare tactics and military weapons used by various cultures in the Old Testament era.

«In the colonial and revolutionary war era, [small - arms] weapons used by militiamen and weapons used in defense of person and home were one and the same.»

One of the weapons used by defenders of the status quo is to set high hurdles for innovations.

* Deleted Scenes (HD, 4 mins)-- «Pentagon», «Right Hand», «Helicopter», «Lewis and Dean» and «Norton Confesses to Dreyfus» * Omnicorp Product Announcement (HD, 4 mins)-- «Exo - Skeleton», «EM - 208», «ED - 29», «XT - 908», «Cruiser 1», «TSR - 6», «M2 Battle Rifle», RC - 2000 V1», «RC - 2000 V3» and «Next Generation RoboCop * RocoCop: Engineered for the 21st Century (HD)-- «The Illusion of Free Will: A New Vision» (8 mins), this featurette focuses on the differences between the original RoboCop and the new RoboCop, «To Serve and Protect: RoboCop's New Weapons» (6 mins), a brief featurette taking a closer look at the weapons used by RoboCop, «The RoboCop Suit: Form and Function» (15 mins), this final featurette looks at the design of the new suit.

Contains a PowerPoint which looks at some of the main weapons used by pirates including different guns, handheld weapons and explosives.

This award - winning museum contains weapons used by the Navy throughout the centuries and is housed in buildings of the Navy's former armaments depot centred around the original powder magazine of 1771.

- Fixed an issue allowing Brella weapons used by opponents to shoot while their umbrellas remained open.

The Full Armor variation of this unit has increased defensive capabilities, providing extra protection against the light weapons used by Zeon's mobile suits through shock absorption.

Fixed an issue allowing Brella weapons used by opponents to shoot while their umbrellas remained open.

Assassin's Creed Origins» players will get to enjoy a For Honor - themed gear pack, featuring weapons used by «Knights, brutal Vikings and deadly Samurai.»

The artist's metalwork — in which he brings to life some of the most famous phrases from film and music history and provides his own interpretation of the weapons used by assassins — presents an undeniable vibrancy while simultaneously managing to speak volumes about our society.

Not exact matches

Obama was pressed by a similar situation in 2013, after evidence surfaced that Assad violated Obama's «red line» by using chemical weapons.

The U.S. - led airstrikes, which U.S. President Donald Trump described as «perfectly executed,» came after the likely use of chemical weapons in an attack by the Syrian regime on the town of Douma earlier this month.

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.

Also banned: instructions on «on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people,» unless there is «clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self - defense activities, training by a country's military, commercial video games, or news coverage).»

The 18 - year - old argued that it's too easy to purchase weapons like the AR - 15, which was used by the Florida gunman, 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz.

As the DOJ's complaint against the merger argues, the resulting conglomerate might «use its control of Time Warner's popular programming as a weapon to harm competition» by raising the prices it charges other cable networks for Time Warner entertainment or limiting distribution of content from other producers.

The one thing that ties all of these cases together (and you might throw in a comment this week by press secretary Sean Spicer about Hitler not using chemical weapons) is that there didn't appear to show remorse.

The first thing that's changed is that Consumer Internet and Genomics are Driving Innovation at scale In the 1950's and» 60's U.S. Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley's first microwave devices and semiconductor components.

And any use of nuclear weapons by the North will be met with a massive military response that is both effective and overwhelming,» Mattis said.

The closure comes after months of scrutiny caused by the use of a bump stock — an accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire at the rate of an automatic — in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.

One final aspect of food technology, which I explore in my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, is its use by the United States as a weapon, figuratively speaking.

US C - SOG argues that by using modern technology and weapons, including shotguns, Tasers, and body cameras, officers can use a more exact amount of force and ensure they never apply more than necessary.

The European Union also said evidence pointed to the use of chemical weapons by Assad's forces.

MEC doesn't sell guns, but has faced a petition calling on it to stop selling brands owned by Vista Outdoor because the U.S. company also develops and manufactures firearms similar to the type of weapon used in a recent mass shooting in Florida.

«They bombed and bombed, and we weren't defeated by conventional weapons, so they found the only way was to use chemical [weapons],» an official in the rebel group Jaysh Al Islam told Reuters.