Sentence examples for amount of arms from inspiring English sources

In mid-December the police captured a number of militants and seized a significant amount of arms and bomb-making materials in the cities of Maiduguri and Kano.

If Mr Putin called in the full force of the Russian army, no amount of arms would save Ukraine, as even the most hawkish would admit.

In spite of the huge civilian casualties, George never had a moment's doubt about the rightness of this offensive, arguing that it forced Hitler to shift a massive amount of arms production from offensive weapons for fighting the Russians to anti-aircraft weapons to defend Germany.

"The German government considers there is no amount of arms that the west might give Kiev that would not potentially be matched by Russian support to the separatists and that therefore arms shipments to Kiev are not the answer," Chipman said.

As a result, the dollar amount of arms sales from Moscow to Tehran is now almost six times what it was 10 years ago.

Some argue that the instability caused by the Libyan intervention has fed the insurgency in Mali given the mind-numbing amount of arms that entered the black market.

If Mr Obama can prevent Mrs Clinton from winning the triple, then no amount of arm-twisting of superdelegates will save her campaign.

Mr Muis says that once he started to say things that were uncongenial, he was subjected to "a certain amount of arm-twisting".

With no small amount of arm-twisting, they got the Council to raise the limit to three terms, never mind poll results showing that New Yorkers overwhelmingly wanted any proposed change to be submitted to a referendum, as in the '90s.

Still, commercial airlines need not worry: Soaring is good sport, but no amount of arm waving will get a birdman aloft in the first place.

We would have liked to have more than the eight we chose, but no amount of arm-wrestling, red-faced shouting and old-fashioned straw-drawing could get them on the list.