(n.) Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
(n.) Contest; struggle.
(v. i.) To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
Example Sentences:
(1) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(2) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
(3) There was effectively a state of open warfare between Mourinho and the club captain Iker Casillas.
(4) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(5) Can Advanced Warfare shake up the series in narrative terms?
(6) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(7) Convicted of waging aggressive war and breaking laws of war at Nuremberg, but not of war crimes (or for unrestricted submarine warfare, after US Fleet-Admiral Nimitz admitted he used the same tactics).
(8) Official military doctrine in many countries is that these laws apply to cyberspace as they do to all other domains of warfare.
(9) I only think it’s inevitable if people who support marriage between a man and a woman don’t speak up.” Labor’s Penny Wong said the “open warfare” inside the Liberal party had the potential to “damage the cause of equality that so many Australians care about”.
(10) The need for psychiatrists in the military was recognized for the first time during World War I, which involved millions of men in unusually protracted warfare.
(11) "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning," the world's third richest man once warned fellow Americans.
(12) A soil sample originating from an area of suspected chemical warfare activity was subjected to chemical analysis and bioassay.
(13) One of the two women suspected of involvement in the poisoning vomited in police custody and was also suffering the effects of VX, which is only usually used in chemical warfare, the inspector general, Khalid Abu Bakar, said.
(14) In the context of what he called the "normalisation of war", Bacevich argued that unchallenged, expanding American military superiority encouraged the use of force, accustomed "the collective mindset of the officer corps" to ideas of dominance, glorified warfare and the warrior and advanced the concept of "the moral superiority of the soldier" over the civilian.
(15) West Side Story had become the acceptable face of teenage gang warfare, so Kubrick stylised and choreographed the violence, setting it to music that ranges from Rossini overtures to 'Singin' in the Rain'.
(16) In Asia, China has deployed a potent mix of psychological and legal warfare to strengthen its claims to hegemony over the South China Sea.
(17) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
(18) In the 1991 Gulf War, Israel's infectious disease surveillance system was utilized to follow the progress of a measles epidemic and to look for evidence of a concealed biological warfare attack.
(19) "It's a form of asymmetric warfare," said William Becker, a lawyer and conservative advocate who represented the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee in its losing battle with the city council.
(20) In that case, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg apologized to Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg after the company deleted a post by her in which she shared the picture in solidarity with Tom Egeland, a writer who had included the Nick Ut picture as one of seven photographs he said had “changed the history of warfare”.
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.