(a.) Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection.
(a.) Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
(a.) Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(3) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(4) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
(5) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
(6) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(7) But the median survival time was 30.7 months in Arm A and 24.5 months in Arm B, and significantly longer in Arm A until 10 months.
(8) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(9) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
(10) His arm was being held by Muntari who let go of it as he entered the penalty area.
(11) Her arm is outstretched in a strong, certain Nazi salute.
(12) Reciprocal translocations involving the short arm of acrocentric chromosomes can segregate to produce partial duplications without associated deletions.
(13) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
(14) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
(15) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
(16) Welcomed with open arms a month ago, Syrians are now attacked on popular television talkshows where they are described as Morsi sympathisers.
(17) The increase in the mean resting ankle-arm index 1 year after conventional angioplasty (0.26) was greater than that after laser angioplasty (0.12).
(18) Of those, 39 were civilians, 34 armed opposition fighters and 35 members of the state security forces, said the UK-based group.
(19) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(20) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
Gunboat
Definition:
(n.) A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns.
Example Sentences:
(1) The captain of the ship said it was under assault by Iranian gunboats at the time and that the Airbus A300 was misidentified as an attacking F-14 Tomcat.
(2) For Hague, basking in unaccustomed praise for his "decisive action" in the Commons, this was the successful conclusion of a piece of unorthodox diplomacy – which subtly avoided the use of gunboats.
(3) The diplomatic equivalent might be the gunboat variety, but no one would try that any more, would they?
(4) There are still shocking days – missiles to Syria, gunboats to North Korea – but we stay focused Month Two: February was the month of OMG!
(5) There are still shocking days – missiles to Syria , gunboats to North Korea – but we stay focused.
(6) The Johnson Administration responded by claiming inaccurately that North Vietnamese gunboats attacked a US ship in international waters near the Gulf of Tonkin.
(7) A year ago three private Chinese vessels with 29 fishermen on board were seized by a North Korean gunboat , with unidentified captors reportedly demanding $190,000 for the fishermen's release.
(8) The Ministry of Defence also issued a detailed account of the seizure of the naval patrol last Friday, with charts, map coordinates and photographs supporting Britain's insistence that it was well within Iraqi waters when it was surrounded by Iranian gunboats.
(9) Yes, I know it's in Japan and is about gunboat diplomacy.
(10) We've had an interesting insight into what's been happening behind the scenes with this sort of bullying of Ecuador and this gunboat diplomacy.
(11) Here is a summary of the latest updates: • Israeli aircraft, tanks and naval gunboats pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip today as Israel continues the operation launched yesterday.
(12) In the 19th century Britain practised gunboat diplomacy to confound its enemies.
(13) In response, a naval gunboat was called in to break the blockade."
(14) The nickname "Gunboats", which attached itself to her, seemed very apt.
(15) Syrian gunboats shelling Palestinian refugee camps and images of Syrian troops shooting unarmed protesters obviously do not gel with Hezbollah's carefully constructed organisational narrative – a notion centred on the organisation's members as the heirs of the battle of Karbala , struggling against the odds for emancipation, empowerment and Islamic justice for all.
(16) The suggestion that all this might now get out of hand and that gunboats should be used is a purely British one.