What's the difference between firebomb and weapon?

Firebomb


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thousands took to the streets to protest, with many hurling rocks and firebombs at police.
  • (2) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
  • (3) Last February, Freedom survived not the first of attempts to hound it out, after it was firebombed, most likely by far-right activists.
  • (4) Three Malaysian churches were attacked with firebombs, causing extensive damage to one, as Muslims pledged today to prevent Christians from using the word "Allah", escalating religious tensions in the multiracial country.
  • (5) They were widely derided for being the "Postman Pats" of international terrorism, but the Welsh nationalists' prolific firebombing campaign of holiday cottages begun at the end of the 1970s caused havoc in the rural idyll of the Lleyn peninsula.
  • (6) The offices of Charlie Hebdo were firebombed last November after it published an edition entitled Charia Hebdo, supposedly guest-edited by Muhammad.
  • (7) Guy Shennan and Rupert Franklin-Lester Palestine-UK Social Work Network • It may be true as Adam Levick writes ( Letters, 14 October ) that Israel is under attack by waves of Arabs armed with rocks, knives, firebombs and automatic rifles.
  • (8) This whole time we were praying for her … but after all attempts to save her failed, she died a martyr.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A mourner examines the crib where Reham Dawabsheh’s 18 month-old-son Ali died in the firebomb attack.
  • (9) Authorities have banned motorcyclists from carrying passengers in an attempt to halt a spate of drive-by firebomb attacks.
  • (10) The Tokyo firebombing killed more people than either.
  • (11) Four clinics have been the victims of arson, including two similar firebombings in Washington state and California.
  • (12) Several hundred demonstrators pelted police officers with homemade firebombs and threw rocks and flaming bottles at the embassy as a series of events were held in Argentina and the UK on Monday to commemorate the 1982 conflict.
  • (13) In April 1989 Collets, the left-wing bookshop, and Dillons were firebombed for stocking the Rushdie novel.
  • (14) Charlie Hebdo’s offices were firebombed in 2011 after a spoof issue featuring a caricature of the prophet Mohammed on its cover.
  • (15) Queues formed on Wednesday outside polling stations as they opened at 9am under the same heavy security that had guarded the vote on the first day , when pro-Morsi protesters burned tyres and pelted police with rocks and firebombs, creating just enough tension to keep many voters at home.
  • (16) The Israeli military said he was hurling a firebomb at a car.
  • (17) Germans greet influx of refugees with free food and firebombings Read more On Sunday, the Social Democrat prime minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hannelore Kraft joined in increasing calls for an EU-wide asylum policy, arguing that many countries were failing to contribute enough to the crisis.
  • (18) In the first attack, the ground-level office of the three-story Metro Tabernacle church was destroyed in a blaze set off by a firebomb thrown by attackers on motorcycles soon after midnight, police said.
  • (19) Police say it followed shootings, firebombs, looting and, crucially, an attempted attack on the area they are using as a command centre.
  • (20) The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to media, said police confiscated home-made grenades and guns, along with firebombs and knives from the detainees.

Weapon


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.
  • (n.) Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.
  • (n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
  • (2) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
  • (3) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
  • (4) China's relations with the NTC were strained last week when it emerged Chinese arms firms had talked to Muammar Gaddafi's representatives about weapons sales .
  • (5) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
  • (6) Types of weapons involved included handguns (48%), shotguns (22%), rifles (17%), unspecified weapon (12%), and air rifle (1%).
  • (7) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.
  • (8) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, said the resolution "sent an unequivocal message to [North Korea] that the international community will not tolerate its pursuit of nuclear weapons."
  • (9) It paves the way for Iran to get nuclear weapons.” Under the deal, Iran committed to reducing the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds, capping its level of uranium enrichment well below the level needed for bomb-grade material, reducing its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000kg to 300kg for 15 years, and submitting to international inspections to verify its compliance.
  • (10) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
  • (11) Even a Scrabble board is used as a weapon in our show.
  • (12) The most efficient weapon against cancer is early diagnosis.
  • (13) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
  • (14) The Met said officers would be told to focus less on stopping people for small amounts of cannabis, and instead focus on those suspected of violent offences and carrying weapons.
  • (15) And an increasing number of critics say that no nuclear weapon would be a credible deterrent in any counter-terrorist operation British forces will be engaged in for the foreseeable future.
  • (16) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
  • (17) Six major Saudi-led coalition attacks in Yemen in 2016 – timeline Read more Asked by the Guardian about the figures during a visit to London, the Saudi foreign minister, Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir, portrayed the Saudi air force as professional and armed with precision weapons.
  • (18) He saw a soldier aim his weapon’s laser sight at the al-Atrashes’ Volkswagen “like he was preparing to shoot”.
  • (19) Britain is being urged to halt the supply of weapons to its ally Saudi Arabia in the light of evidence that civilians are being killed in Saudi-led attacks on rebel forces in Yemen .
  • (20) Kerry warned a sceptical and sometimes raucous panel that failing to strike Syria would embolden al-Qaida and raise to 100% the chances that Assad would use chemical weapons again.

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