(n.) Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.
(n.) The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science.
(n.) Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon.
(n.) The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son.
(n.) The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot.
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.
Munition
Definition:
(n.) Fortification; stronghold.
(n.) Whatever materials are used in war for defense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and provisions; military stores of all kinds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russian forces also used cluster munitions which are particularly dangerous to civilians, the report says, citing video reports from Russian airbases where the bombs were clearly visible.
(2) Nor is the shipping of chemical munitions or agents outside state borders.
(3) Metabolites of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) were found in the urine of a group of TNT munition workers.
(4) There has also been concern that the Saudis were not straightforward with the UK government over the use of British-supplied cluster munitions.
(5) The town I grew up in was built around the manufacture of munitions during the second world war.
(6) Human Rights Watch reported that four cluster bombs exploded in the city on Thursday and Friday, and two Libyan residents of Misrata told the Guardian that they suspected the munitions were being used.
(7) "It is the first confirmed video showing casualties that we have seen of what has been an increasingly clear use of these munitions," said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director of Human Rights Watch.
(8) The UK and Saudi Arabia claimed they not have broken the law after the Saudi government, under pressure from the Guardian, finally confirmed that it has used British-supplied cluster munitions in Yemen .
(9) The report also alleged other international humanitarian law violations during the conflict, including Palestinian militant groups’ storing munitions in civilian buildings and United Nations schools, and launching attacks near locations where hundreds of displaced civilians were taking shelter.
(10) Speaking during Foreign Office questions in the Commons, Hammond said: “The UK has long since given up the use of cluster munitions.
(11) The munition produces a huge cloud of fuel that is ignited to produce a blast and suck huge amounts of oxygen out of the air.
(12) And the US provided Colombia with GPS equipment that can be used to transform regular munitions into "smart bombs" that can accurately home in on specific targets, even if they are located in dense jungles.
(13) Some of the doctors say that it might be phosphorus or poison gas of some kind, but the investigation is ongoing, we don’t know for sure.” It is possible that Isis fighters could mistake some chemical munitions for ordinary weapons and use them without being aware of what they are handling.
(14) We have gathered evidence that the cause of this mortality is the highly toxic, incendiary munition white phosphorus (P4).
(15) And yet cluster munition producers are still able to fund their activities.
(16) The report calls for all 151 financial institutions in the “hall of shame” to develop policies that exclude all financial links with companies involved in the production of cluster munitions.
(17) In the same conditions, the specific activity and Km values in metacyclic forms was 75 mUnits x mg-1 of protein and 1.06 mM, respectively.
(18) Saudi Arabia is the UK’s biggest weapons client: since the start of its campaign with other Middle Eastern nations in Yemen in March 2015, the government has granted licences for £3.3bn of munitions, aircraft and other military equipment for the campaign that has been largely waged from the air.
(19) Paris attacks: France responds with airstrikes against Isis in Syria – live Read more The operation, carried out in coordination with US forces, struck a command centre, recruitment centre for jihadists, a munitions depot, and a training camp for fighters.
(20) Those countries party to the international cluster munitions convention are required to discourage other countries from using them.