(n.) The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his book Swords and Ploughshares, Ashdown gives us two insights.
(2) While most of Europe beat swords into ploughshares, Britain continued to spend heavily on defence.
(3) It’s the clock, it’s the weight of multiple [legislative] vehicles but no agreement on the way forward, it’s the key leaders on the committees, and it’s the dynamic that will change in response to a discussion of something real” with Iran, said Joel Rubin of the Ploughshares Fund, a former State Department official and congressional aide.
(4) 12.6.11 In a small piece in the Observer , Neate reveals the Ministry of Defence's civilian research arm, Ploughshare Innovations, and various private investors are suing the US company 3M for up to £41m in damages for not commercially developing a new technology that could have been vital in the fight against the deadly MRSA hospital superbug.
(5) As with French-German relations after the second world war, Israeli-Palestinian relations will advance if we nurture their inter-related economic development, so that “they beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks”.
(6) Philip Yun is the executive director & COO of the Ploughshares Fund Daryl Kimball Photograph: NK News Daryl Kimball : Near zero chance of premeditated attack North Korea’s nuclear weapons test explosion on 12 February 2013 – its third – has been the single-most worrisome development in recent years .
(7) It would be a useful change, but I just can’t see them doing it in the last few months of the administration.” Even staunch arms control advocates such as Joseph Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund said the administration may have left it too late to make meaningful changes.
(8) The martial Sikh – no one could doubt his valour or patriotism – had taken up, if not the ploughshare, then the latest fertiliser (although a disproportionately large number of soldiers in the Indian army were and are Sikh), and achieved successes on farmland comparable to battles fought and won.
(9) Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund , a Washington-based non-proliferation organisation, said: "The main beneficiaries of the Amano reign have been US policy and the Japanese nuclear power industry.
Plowshare
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Ploughshare
Example Sentences:
(1) The Plowshare Program in 1957 investigated the use of nuclear explosives for peaceful purposes and created an immediate need for predicting the dispersion and ultimate fate of radionuclides that might be vented to the atmosphere or enter groundwater and expose man.
(2) From Picasso's "Guernica" to Luis Iriondo Aurtenetxea's self-portrait with his mother, to the efforts of Oier Plaza and his young friends, the power of art to turn swords into plowshares, to resist war, is perennially renewed.
(3) The most well-developed models involve alteration of mutant target genes by gene transfer with recombinant pathogenic viruses in order to express new genetic information and to correct disease phenotypes--the conversion of the swords of pathology into the plowshares of therapy.