Sentences with phrase «weapons of war carry»

Not exact matches

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

A series of co-ordinated missile strikes on the war - torn country were carried out in an early morning operation on Saturday by the US, UK and France, which targeted alleged chemical weapons sites.

«Though we live in the world, we are not carrying on a worldly war, for the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

The MP explained that he was on the side of the «innocent» people being caught up in the violence and encouraged a response that would show the UK's intolerance of such behaviour: «The only way of stopping someone who continues to be violent, destructive, murderous and surgical in the way that they carry out their actions against innocent people is to stop them being able to have the capabilities to be able to do it and I think that's what we're targeting and I would hope that the Prime Minister and the President of the United States will be targeting the weapons of war and by doing so taking away the ability to wage war.»

A recent propaganda video shows clips from Hollywood war movies set in medieval times — perhaps because many of the prophecies specify that the armies will be on horseback or carrying ancient weapons.

When the Atlantic Navigator docked in Baltimore harbor earlier this month, the freighter carried the last remnants of some of the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union had brandished in the cold war.

After the World War II bombings of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, the threat of foreign attack on U.S. soil shifted from naval assault to air attack, particularly by aircraft carrying nuclear weapons.

The NRA stand in the way of commonsense bans on large capacity weapons that no one should need for hunting or to carry around with them unless they plan on being in a war.