Sentence examples for armed countries from inspiring English sources

In one of the world's most heavily armed countries, civil war is a real possibility.

Not long after the summit meeting, the two heavily armed countries, which fought a fierce naval battle over disputed territorial waters just 16 months ago, were marching together in the Olympic ceremonies in Sydney, arranging visits between some long-separated families and working to restore rail links that had been severed since the war.

The five nuclear powers yesterday rightly rejected amending the treaties to expand the ranks of nuclear armed countries.

A mysterious night-time telephone call brought India and Pakistan, two nuclear armed countries, to the brink of war at the height of the crisis over the Mumbai terror attacks, it was revealed yesterday.

Just as it wasn't smokers that got smoking banned indoors across the planet, it's not likely that the nuclear armed countries will show the normative leadership necessary to cut off the flow of money to their nuclear bomb producers.

See articleAmerica is the most heavily armed country in the world, according to a report.

Other than Switzerland, where former soldiers keep their assault rifles at home, France is Europe's most heavily armed country.

("Arm the teachers!" "Arm the students!") I reported on Lebanon's civil war in the 1980s, and I can assure you that a heavily armed country is not an ideal (or safe) place to live.

Those gains — an emerging democracy in an oil-rich Arab nation, freedom for millions of Iraqis from a dictator's brutal whimsy — remain vulnerable in a heavily armed country with a light rule of law.

The United States is the most heavily armed country in the world, with 90 guns for every 100 citizens.

We have about 90 guns for every 100 people, making us the most heavily armed country per capita in the world.