(a.) Not armed or armored; having no arms or weapons.
(a.) Having no hard and sharp projections, as spines, prickles, spurs, claws, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(3) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(4) It also said that night that the suspect had been unarmed — an assertion that was revealed to be false the next day when officials acknowledged Gonzalez had a knife with him when he was apprehended.
(5) It took the first intifada (the largely unarmed, six-year uprising that preceded the current, far more violent one) to transform Yassin wholly and irrevocably, and to pitchfork him into the forefront of the Palestinian struggle as a serious rival to Arafat himself.
(6) A similar shooting of five unarmed Chechens, one a pregnant woman, in Quetta last month is also under investigation.
(7) The right is very flexible on industrial action: in the 80s striking miners were characterised as violent and feckless, despite being unarmed against mounted police and arguably the opposite of feckless – battling to keep backbreaking jobs.
(8) The trial of the former police officer who shot dead Walter Scott, an unarmed African American , in an incident that was caught on cellphone video and reignited the debate on race and policing in the US, has ended in a mistrial.
(9) Unarmed and unaware of the horror that was about to be unleashed on the island, Berntsen succeeded in protecting his 10-year-old son but could do nothing to save himself.
(10) Tony Abbott announced the memorial plans while admitting his frustration at the inability of the multinational police team, including unarmed Australian federal police, to enter the wreckage site in eastern Ukraine to recover bodies.
(11) Their red and black flag flies above several of the tents in Kiev's sprawling downtown protest city; young volunteers – unarmed but wearing khaki fatigues – have commandeered a boutique and a city council office.
(12) Gun sales are continuing to spike around Ferguson, Missouri, as security firms plead with authorities to make it easier for them to hire new guards in advance of a grand jury’s decision on whether to charge a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black 18-year-old.
(13) They also described seeing LTTE fighters, some armed, among the unarmed refugees.
(14) Caro Gonzales, a 26-year-old member of the Chemehuevi tribe and an anti-police violence activist in Washington state, said the language from law enforcement officials resembled that used to discredit unarmed black men killed by police.
(15) There are growing questions about Obama’s response to a prominent set of police killings of unarmed black men and children that have raised questions about alleged discriminatory policing and impunity.
(16) Almost uniquely in Europe he gave us not a gun-toting paramilitary gendarmerie but "citizens in uniform", an unarmed police force under civilian control.
(17) Madison police chief says officer shooting of unarmed man has similarities to Ferguson Read more According to radio audio posted online in the days after the incident, the first 911 call came in around 6.30pm.
(18) There was widespread shock earlier this month at video footage of paramilitary soldiers shooting an unarmed 22-year-old man in a Karachi park, then leaving him to bleed to death.
(19) Some casualties were accidentally caused by air strikes, but many also are said to involve British troops firing on unarmed drivers or motorcyclists who come "too close" to convoys or patrols.
(20) Within six months, any stop, search or arrest by a police officer in the city – roiled by unrest in 2014 after the fatal shooting of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown – must be captured on camera, according to the draft agreement with federal officials published on Wednesday.
Unharmed
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Male and female DBA 11 mice recovered from 1 hr of anesthesia with chloroform of fluoroxene apparently unharmed.
(2) The civil defence agency reported that 72 vehicles had been rescued in the Riyadh region with their occupants unharmed.
(3) This enabled the section commander to drag away the fallen soldier, who was dazed but unharmed.
(4) After all, the most basic freedom of all is the freedom to walk the streets unharmed and to sleep safe in our beds at night.” Parliament will soon debate the government’s first national security legislation bill to expand the powers of intelligence agencies and criminalise disclosure by any person of covert “special intelligence agencies”.
(5) It is suggested that under normal conditions albumin extracts enough hemin to leave the erythrocyte with unharmful hemin amounts, however, under pathological conditions greater amounts accumulate leading to a shorter cell life span.
(6) Chu, with trembling lips, said that “a 70-year-old like me is unable to lead all the Occupy protestors home unharmed and protect young people from being hit”.
(7) Path of the spill "The mud will react with organic substances in the Danube and will lose its force and turn unharmful," said Professor Huub Savenije, a hydrologist from Delft University in the Netherlands.
(8) The prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, who was due to attend the camp today, was reported to have been working at home and to have been unharmed by the blast, as were the rest of the cabinet.
(9) Engineers were not convinced the booster would survive the violence of the separation, but in the test, the rocket appeared to be unharmed and continued on its course into space.
(10) Under the trust's programme on its 20 sq km Killerton Estate , near Exeter, badgers will be caught in live traps, injected with the licensed BCG vaccine, marked so they will not be injected again and released unharmed.
(11) The man was blindfolded and bound at a North Carolina home before FBI agents traced phone calls from his abductors and stormed the residence, rescuing him mostly unharmed, authorities said.
(12) The resulting lesions heal without significant scarring, and deeper layers of the skin remain unharmed.
(13) They eventually depart, unharmed, but they’re forced to leave a patient’s dead body behind.
(14) This theory is based on the concept that sharp oxygen gradients exist in rapidly metabolizing tissue and that shifts in these gradients can place specific cells at risk for metabolic death while relatively adjacent cells escape unharmed; cells that are unharmed meet the steady-state requirements (V less than Vmax), those at risk do not (V greater than Vmax).
(15) Only the giant Antarctic slater Glyptonotus antarcticus survived the exposure to the contaminated water unharmed.
(16) During treatment, normal tissues and resistant 6C3HED lymphomas survive unharmed with intracellular asparagine levels which are critically low for sensitive lymphomas.
(17) Evidence for maternal immune recognition of the fetus can be found during pregnancy, yet the conceptus remains unharmed.
(18) Monolateral bridging were in fact performed only in those cases where the contralateral vascular district was unharmed, in patients with serious ganrenous lesions and those with a high operative risk.
(19) The basement membrane was in all experiments unharmed by hydrogel contact lens wear.
(20) Assuming that the human organism is anxious to remain unharmed and, like viruses maintain its adaptability by a system of multiform control systems one can imagine, that the autoimmunity induced by and therefore directed primarily against viruses can be regarded as "physiological", thus representing a protective mechanism against disturbing exogenous and endogenous factors.