Sentences with phrase «weapons has at»

Whilst they are indeed awesome and extremely dangerous ordinance, policy on nuclear weapons has at root always been about symbolism.

The game never tells the player how to use the weapons you have at your disposal.

We give plaintiffs» personal injury trial attorneys examples of the arsenal of weapons we have at our disposal to put these cases in position to win, such as sample demand letters, pleadings, discovery, depositions, motions, jury instructions, and motions in limine.

Not exact matches

The incident comes at a time when police agencies in the US have made headlines for fatally shooting suspects during encounters in which the suspect was suffering from the affects of mental illness or, in many more cases, did not have a weapon.

The officer did not fire his weapon at the suspect, identified as 25 - year - old Alex Minassian, despite harrowing moments captured on video that showed the suspect gesturing aggressively at the office and claiming to have a gun.

The Las Vegas Police Department reported that at least 50 people have died and more than 400 were injured by a gunman with a high - powered assault weapon during country singer Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Sunday evening.

The main menu, which you can access at any point in the game, has everything you need: It lays out your gear, weapons, and skills — which are all upgradeable in various ways — but it also contains much more than that, including detailed maps and a complete guide to the environments, creatures, allies, and enemies in the game.

Ryan Bohl, a Middle East analyst at the geopolitical consulting firm Stratfor, told Business Insider that though Syria's chemical weapons facilities lay under the umbrella of Russia's air defenses, they were not actually close enough that a strike on the facilities would endanger Russian troops.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday he told Kim during their secret meeting at the beginning of April that North Korea would have to agree to take «irreversible» steps toward shutting its nuclear weapons program in any deal with the United States.

Next, in our Friday conjecture, we have an alleged weapon, discovered at the scene: McConnell in the Senate Chamber with the candlestick.

The clearest weapon at the disposal of the EU and U.S. appeared to be economic sanctions that would freeze Russian assets and scrap multi-billion dollar deals with Russia.

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.

Chinese officials and media have hinted at some sensor - fusion capability to hand - off targets to other aircraft and perhaps weapons assets, as with the F - 35s capability to direct weapons.

And Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said that the strike «has severely damaged or destroyed Syrian aircraft and support infrastructure and equipment at Shayrat airfield, reducing the Syrian government's ability to deliver chemical weapons.»

«We're seeing (the Russians) have more advanced weapons systems, missile systems that can attack land at long ranges, and we also see their operating proficiency is getting better as they range farther from home waters.»

«We believe that by hitting Barzeh in particular we've attacked the heart of the Syrian chemicals weapon program,» Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie told reporters at the Pentagon.

The face - off intensified after Russia warned that any U.S. missiles fired at Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel enclave would be shot down.

The face - off between the two countries gained ground after Russia warned that any U.S. missiles fired at Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel enclave would be shot down.

The great success of the Ford class will not be defined by any one innovation on board, but by the foresight displayed by the designers who are boldly creating a carrier to launch planes that haven't even been designed yet, to fire weapons not yet built, and to secure the US's interests at sea for decades to come.

Life is one long battle; we have to fight at every step; and Voltaire very rightly says that if we succeed, it is at the point of the sword, and that we die with the weapon in our hand.

Adm. Mark Stanhope, a former head of the Royal Navy, has said that moving the weapons «would add a dangerous period of destabilization in our nuclear defence posture at a time when the international picture is clearly deteriorating.»

Bronk said that ISIS and the Taliban had these weapons, while Javid Ahmad, a fellow at the Atlantic Council, told Business Insider the groups did not.

But the central thesis of «The Bomb,» and one Schlosser made strongly in «Command and Control» (which also premiered at Tribeca as a documentary film adaptation), is that mortifying accidents have happened, and will happen again: People are human and nuclear weapons are machines.

Meanwhile, at the same event on Tuesday, some of the U.S. military's top weapons buyers said their service branches would have to halt or drastically cut hundreds of acquisition programs if Congress doesn't pass a new budget.

In an attempt at compromise, Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania introduced legislation that would direct the attorney general to create a new list of suspected terrorists who could be barred from buying weapons.

Sung - Yoon Lee of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University has doubts that North Korea is sincere about taking «meaningful action» on its nuclear weapons program.

Prime minister Alexis Tsipras «didn't have what it took, sentimentally, emotionally, at that moment, to carry that no vote to Europe and use it as a weapon,» said Varoufakis.

«It seems new national security advisor John Bolton could be starting his first day in the White House in the worst way possible: by having to plan a military strike on Assad's ability to deliver chemical weapons attacks in Syria,» Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, told CNBC.

Thanks to advanced tools such as lead trajectory and predictive lead scoring, savvy entrepreneurs have more weapons at their disposal than ever before in the quest for higher - quality lead generation.

The U.S., on the other hand, is said to have engineered a similar weapon, which can travel at Mach 5, or about 3,806 mph, Inquisitr reported.

So here we have a big, lumbering guy weighed down with armor, who can't see much more than a few feet in front of his face, up against a kid running at him with a devastating weapon and a rock traveling with the stopping power of a.45 caliber handgun.

«The situation at the time the officer fired his Taser was, thus, replete with uncertainty and a reasonable officer in his shoes could have worried he faced imminent danger from a lethal weapon,» Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion.

Dick's kicked off the trend on Wednesday with an announcement that it would stop selling assault - style weapons and require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old.

Along with a possible motive, the Russians might have the technological means — or at least the capacity to have plausibly developed a directed - energy weapon that US scientists could not identify.

Pompeo said North Korea's nuclear weapons program has developed at a «very rapid clip,» but that Kim is hoping for an arsenal of nuclear weapons — «not one, not a showpiece, not something to drive on a parade route.»

The Pentagon said there had been chemical weapons agents at one of the targets, and that the strikes had significantly crippled Syria's ability to produce such weapons.

«We believe that by hitting Barzeh in particular we've attacked the heart of the Syrian chemicals weapon program,» Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie said at the Pentagon.

Iran would have to enrich uranium at much higher levels to produce a weapon.

«I'm not going to say at this point if that has manifested into weapons and that sort of thing, but certainly what they're up to there in light of their other activities gives us concern.»

North Korea has shown a persistent interest in computer technology since the early 1980s so it is conceivable that a country, which has launched long - range missiles and tested nuclear weapons has also developed a smartphone, said Kang Ho Jye, a research fellow at Ewha Institute of Unification Studies.

Just last year, officials discussed the impact a nuclear weapon strike would have on MacDill and the surrounding area, noting that a strike was highly improbable (though the focus, at the time, was on North Korea).

Kroger (KR), the nation's largest grocer, announced Thursday it would raise the age for weapon purchases at its Fred Meyer general merchandise stores.

«You don't know until you test it, but I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon,» Trump told a gathering of governors at the White House.

But in a sign the pressure is beginning to tell in Washington, Trump announced on Tuesday that he had ordered the Justice Department to propose a rule to ban bump fire stocks, the device that allowed the gunman at the Las Vegas massacre in October to fire on concertgoers more rapidly, mimicking automatic weapons fire.

Some 50 dead at the hands of a self - declared ISIS supporter with an automatic assault weapon, in the midst of the most polarized presidential election the country has experienced in the post-war period.

In the wake of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, some have argued for a reinstatement of the nationwide ban on assault weapons, while others have suggested that the solution lies in improving access to mental - health care.

Authorities said the suspected shooter, 64 - year - old Stephen Paddock of Nevada, appeared to have killed himself before police stormed his 32nd - floor Mandalay Bay hotel room, where they say he fired a high - capacity weapon on people below at a country music festival.

«Plaintiffs» brief illustrates the views of those who may never have even laid eyes on the weapons they vilify,» the group wrote, «much less squeezed off a few rounds at the range, like millions of peaceful, law - abiding Americans regularly do.»

If you know anything about US gun laws, though, this should have at first seemed unlikely — after all, automatic weapons are some of the few guns that are supposed to be banned or, at the very least, strictly regulated in America.

The carnage in Florida on Wednesday that left at least 17 dead seemed to confirm that the rifle and its variants have also become the weapons of choice for mass killers.