(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.
Weaponry
Definition:
(n.) Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.
Example Sentences:
(1) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(2) The speed of the advance and strength of the weaponry used has stunned the autonomous enclave.
(3) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(4) Flows of weaponry from Libya and elsewhere, uncontrolled criminality, hugely lucrative drug and people trafficking networks, as well as demographics and desertification.
(5) It would be far better to pre-empt that possibility by agreeing an international legal code of the kind that has governed other lethal forms of weaponry, than by refusing to engage until it is too late.
(6) Moreover, applying this protocol in the context of a densely populated environment through the use of heavy weaponry predictably leads to violations of the principles of distinction and proportionality.” McGowan Davis, the chair of the UN commission, said: “The extent of the devastation and human suffering in Gaza was unprecedented and will impact generations to come.
(7) And in a new statement on Thursday, the council said the new weaponry would be needed to change the balance on the ground against Isis.
(8) "We have been promised a mobile strike force of 800 men with up-armour [shaped to deflect road mines] and advanced weaponry.
(9) An analogy is made between the Persian Gulf War and its effective, high tech weaponry and future vector control program planning.
(10) Airlifts of arms to the Syrian rebels, co-ordinated by the CIA, have increased sharply in recent months to become what one former US official calls a "cataract of weaponry" .
(11) These villains have limited aspirations, and the man in the white hat has a limited arsenal of era-appropriate weaponry: a gun, a bow and arrow, a few grenades, maybe even a tank.
(12) "The weaponry that is being provided … has a profoundly negative impact on the balance of interests and the stability of the region and it does put Israel at risk.
(13) On the one hand, eager to end the standoff in the east as soon as possible and faced with an enemy that appears to have a constant supply of heavy weaponry from Russia, Ukrainian forces have resorted to tactics that have been strongly criticised by international bodies.
(14) Rice does say there was a "spontaneous protest" outside the Benghazi consulate but says that after that, "extremist elements" later arrived with heavy weaponry, which led to the violence that followed.
(15) He said China’s expansion could allow it to employ weaponry, including anti-air and other capabilities.
(16) She thought a lot about the military industrial complex and weaponry and that sort of thing.
(17) In other conditions placed on the new memorandum of understanding, Israel would no longer be allowed to spend over a quarter of the military aid on home-produced weaponry, and would instead be required the full amount on US arms.
(18) The Taliban was initially blamed for the 25-year-old's death, but an investigation by the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts' Network (AAN) said Khpulwak may have been killed by US weaponry once the Taliban attackers were already dead.
(19) "Saudi Arabia has been the recipient of record-breaking arms deals involving the UK, yet these have been highly secretive and there's been little or no follow-up over how the weaponry was used."
(20) On the ground, however, the continuing Russian support is clear, as the separatists appear to have an inexhaustible supply of Grad missiles and other weaponry.