What's the difference between armament and disarmament?
Armament
Definition:
(n.) A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.
(n.) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
(n.) Any equipment for resistance.
Example Sentences:
(1) No matter the progress made in establishing the International Criminal Court, in prohibiting indiscriminate armaments of certain kinds and in diffusing norms like “R2P” (the responsibility of all governments to protect its civilians).
(2) Other brands in the group include Remington Arms, the country's largest and oldest maker of rifles; Marlin Firearms, a manufacturer of lever-action rifles; and Advanced Armament, a maker of pistol silencers.
(3) On the basis of the patho-morphological reactions a partial armament of the polyethylene surface with metallic structures must be rejected as a general principle.
(4) Sodium nitroprusside has proved a useful completion of anaesthesiologist's armament.
(5) And if armaments appear from those countries on the Ukrainian side, that will strengthen that narrative and might even push the Russians to take a more direct role in the conflict, because it might push Russia to see itself somehow threatened.” Chipman said on Wednesday that while the Europeans seemed focused on a ceasefire, the other parties – the separatists and the governments of Ukraine and Russia – were thinking more strategically and had entirely incompatible aims.
(6) The Author concludes that radio-isotopes must not be considered separately in the therapeutics of tumours, but as main component of the whole anti-tumour armament (surgical, consentional radiological, chemi-therapeutic) in which the immune-therapeutics is proving itself with fascinating possibilities.
(7) Now Saudi Arabia is the mark; one of the most repressive tyrannies on the planet which already has one of the largest stocks of armaments (at $48bn, it was the seventh largest military spender in 2011).
(8) The Süddeutsche Zeitung said: "Some are questioning the sense of a healthy aircraft company, which is overwhelmingly active in the field of civil aviation, merging with a problematic armaments company."
(9) With minimal media interest, the US African Command (Africom) has deployed troops to 35 African countries, establishing a familiar network of authoritarian supplicants eager for bribes and armaments.
(10) A youth-obsessed society that makes a mint from mining the alleged horrors of growing older – all sag and no sagacity – has locked us into a set of taboos that means millions of us are moving from middle age into possibly decades of allegedly unproductive, dependent, parked-up old age without sufficient armament or attitude of mind to challenge prevailing prejudices.
(11) The report based its conclusions on testimony from witnesses and medical staff as well analysis of the armaments used, which HRW said were of a type used only by the Syrian military.
(12) In answer to specific questions, the majority (97%) of children reported being aware of the issues of nuclear armaments and nuclear war.
(13) Coastguard ships are mainly repurposed naval or commercial vessels and are equipped with light armaments such as machine guns and deck cannons, unlike in the past when most of China's patrol craft had no weaponry.
(14) The support of the industrialized countries for armament sales should be monitored, challenged and made politically unpalatable.
(15) The prevalence of resistance factors (R-factors) has become a serious threat to the chemotherapeutic armament of modern medicine.
(16) Moreover, they rightly see the massive and expensive nuclear re-armament programs underway in these states as confirming their bad faith and recklessly endangering our collective security.
(17) This cestode differs from other related species of this genus in the form of rostellar hooks and form and armament of cirrus.
(18) As this is not easy to perform in most veterinary clinical situations, any therapeutic agent, which facilitates control of haemorrhage is a welcome addition to the therapeutic armament.
(19) Some of the Urban Shield participants expressed anxiety about a Ferguson backlash that would force police forces to give up some of their armaments and leave officers exposed.
(20) But each time the oil has been removed more has seeped from the sediment below, which cannot be dug out because the quarry was a German armaments dump when they occupied the island during the second world war.
Disarmament
Definition:
(n.) The act of disarming.
Example Sentences:
(1) Progress on treaties underpinning nuclear disarmament – which have too long been stalled – has also recently begun to look more hopeful, with renewed prospects for achieving the entry into force of the comprehensive test ban treaty and for starting negotiations on a treaty to ban the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive purposes.
(2) Foreign policy has long been one of his personal priorities, especially support for unilateral disarmament and Palestinian rights.
(3) "Nuclear disarmament is one of the things that Obama really cares about, and he decided to stake his personal credibility on this vote," said Anne Penketh, Washington programme director of the British American Security Information Council .
(4) Reaffirming his long-standing opposition to Trident in a BBC Scotland interview, Corbyn said: “In the House of Commons I was chair of the CND [Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament] group and one of the vice-chairs is from the SNP, and yes, we will be voting with them on this – or they will be voting with us, whichever way you want to put it.” Have you joined Labour since Corbyn became leader?
(5) The news is the latest in a series of recent blows to Barack Obama's attempts to keep alive his vision for global nuclear disarmament.
(6) Unfortunately, they have a track record of dishonouring their commitments.” Critics counter that demands for disarmament and withdrawal will have to be interpreted flexibly if a deal is to be done since the original resolution was too favourable to Riyadh.
(7) Japanese officials have not demanded an apology, preferring to frame Obama’s visit on 27 May as a catalyst for more global action on non-proliferation and disarmament.
(8) The new relationship, for the time being, is to be built around nuclear disarmament, which Obama said was a "good place to start" to reinvigorate a relationship he argued had been allowed to "drift" in recent years.
(9) The most contentious aspect of the treaty was the wording of article VI on disarmament which called upon states "to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament".
(10) The project is the part of NPA’s humanitarian disarmament strategy, which helps people in DRC and other war-affected countries to again start living normal lives free from the threat of injury or death.
(11) Julian Borger (@julianborger) A deserved Nobel prize for the OPCW, a disarmament success story, showing its worth in Syria.
(12) She added negotiations over any United Nations resolution enforcing the Syrian chemical weapons disarmament would take place separately in New York.
(13) The other will announce the resumption of talks on nuclear disarmament aimed at reaching a deal by the time the strategic arms reduction treaty (Start) expires on December 5.
(14) The presence of this staphylococcus is considered as a factor of risk and the indicator that the development of staphylococcal infections is highly possible, which makes the "immunological disarmament" in patients with a protracted course of EMPRN even more pronounced.
(15) Support for the humanitarian consequences pledge is making Australia’s position more difficult; it is galvanising public and political opinion, and Australia finds itself running against the domestic and international tide.” Thakur said Australia’s earlier leadership on nuclear disarmament had diminished over the past four years.
(16) The London demonstration was organised by Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Muslim Association of Great Britain.
(17) What they are prepared to do is tweak the existing doctrine," said Rebecca Johnson, the head of the Acronym Institute, a pro-disarmament pressure group.
(18) But on this day of all days it would be foolish, and maybe even dangerous, to imagine that the disarmament of a few would lead to all others suddenly and for ever giving up on their atomic weapons, or on the intention of building one.
(19) It was seen in Nye Bevan's shift from "no first use" to deriding disarmament as an "emotional spasm" that would send Britain " naked into the conference chamber ".
(20) He served more than a decade as Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations , where he developed an intricate knowledge of the workings of the Security Council, as well as deep experience in international disarmament efforts, including in Iraq.