Sentence examples for armaments left from inspiring English sources

The First World War made it clear that assaulting prepared defences with infantry was deadly and difficult, but similar preparations in Belgium had been overrun by well-equipped German Panzer divisions in the early weeks of 1940 and with so many armaments left at Dunkirk, British forces were woefully ill-equipped to take on German armour.

In October 1999, Shingo Nishimura, then the new vice minister of defense in the cabinet of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, said in an interview that Japan's failure to consider nuclear armament left it open to "rape" by China.

Despite her 50 guns, Centurion's armament left her vulnerable as most were carronades, short-range heavy cannon that were useless in the face of the long range gunnery from Marengo.

Many of these hits had badly damaged the ship's secondary armament, which left her open to destroyer attacks, which Fraser ordered.

Some of the Urban Shield participants expressed anxiety about a Ferguson backlash that would force police forces to give up some of their armaments and leave officers exposed.

Seb Beloe, head of sustainability research at WHEB Asset Management, says: "People seem to be much more interested in focusing their investment on companies that are actively providing solutions to sustainability challenges rather than focusing on areas that they don't like (tobacco, armaments, pornography etc) and then being left with a bunch of banks, insurers, retailers and oil companies".

7 And when Xerxes learned of both the defeat in Plataea and the rout of his own troops in Mycalê, he left a portion of his armament in Sardis to carry on the war against the Greeks, while he himself, in bewilderment, set out with the rest of his army on the way to Ecbatana.

While the result of such mutual armament in an explosive region is only left to imagination, there were other official statements from elsewhere that confirmed the AKP-launched national trend.

Images of the troops fleeing, having left behind an arsenal of US armaments, foretold for the events of the coming months, when the group would cement their control over the northwest, murder and kidnap thousands, and displace hundreds of thousands, while leaving Iraq's Shia-led government sputtering to respond.

Albert Speer, the German armaments minister, expressed amazement that the repair operations were left untroubled by further bombing raids which would have delayed the vital reconstruction and turned a nuisance into a major crisis.

After she left active duty, the ship had her armament removed.