What's the difference between disarmament and force?

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.

Force


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stuff; to lard; to farce.
  • (n.) A waterfall; a cascade.
  • (n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
  • (n.) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
  • (n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
  • (n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
  • (n.) Validity; efficacy.
  • (n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
  • (n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
  • (n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
  • (n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
  • (n.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
  • (n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
  • (n.) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
  • (n.) To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
  • (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
  • (n.) To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
  • (n.) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
  • (v. i.) To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
  • (v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
  • (v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
  • (2) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
  • (3) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
  • (4) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
  • (5) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
  • (6) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
  • (7) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
  • (8) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (9) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (10) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
  • (11) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
  • (12) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
  • (13) In a series of compounds with H2-antihistaminic activity, a conformational analysis was performed based on force field calculations.
  • (14) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
  • (15) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
  • (16) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (17) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
  • (18) Five investigations into the force are being carried out by the IPCC.
  • (19) The data indicate that with force present for 10% of the time (1:9), there was little or no effect on eruption rate.
  • (20) The mechanical forces involved in neurite extension have begun to be quantified, and interactions between the actin and microtubule systems are being further characterized.

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