Sentence examples for appalling weapon from inspiring English sources

It points out all the potential benefits of a nuclear war, which I think are often over-looked when politicians are talking about the practicalities or costs of arming our country with the most appalling weapon mankind has ever created.

When the UN refused to authorise an attack, the president justified action on the grounds that America could wait no longer in the face of a threatening enemy with such appalling weapons at its disposal.The doctrine of pre-emption is obviously hugely controversial.

Some foreign-policy experts would cheer him, as they did when he fired Tomahawk missiles at the Syrian military after its appalling chemical-weapons attack earlier this year.

David Davis, for instance, asked what was so special about chemical weapons given the appalling suffering caused by conventional weapons.

The use of any chemical weapon is appalling.

Like me, he takes a strong line on the use of chemical weapons and these appalling things that are happening.

The proliferation of WMD to irrational tyrants with demonstrable aggressive designs on neighbouring states, and a willingness to use such weapons, is an appalling prospect.

Do you really need to know about the appalling security issues that have dogged nuclear weapons in the 70 years since their invention?

And reasons to do with weapons of mass destruction also do with the appalling brutality and repression of his own people.

"The apparent chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime is an appalling, unconscionable act by a bloodthirsty tyrant.

It's a weapon, of course, and a phallic symbol — it has an appalling sort of bulb at its tip — but it is also a magic wand.