Sentence examples for arms crisis from inspiring English sources

O'Brien attacked Haughey over his role in the arms crisis, a cause celébre at the time, in which certain Fianna Fail politicians were alleged to have tried to smuggle arms shipments to nationalists in Northern Ireland.

Iraq today accused the United States of using a double standard, contrasting the American military buildup in the Persian Gulf with the Bush administration's decision to use diplomacy to try to settle a nuclear arms crisis in North Korea.

A8 Talks on North Korea to Begin North Korea will come under intense diplomatic pressure to scrap its nuclear weapons program as the United States, North Korea and its four neighbors begin unusual six-party negotiations on how to resolve the Korean arms crisis.

He is a sentient nuclear arms crisis shrouded in expensively generic suits and insane-looking cotton candy hair.

"It's dangerous when leaders who spark armed crises start turning a little crazy," Kaplan writes.

The forum would deal with security-related issues, including arms control, crisis management, conflict prevention, conflict resolution and confidence-building measures.

This idea is based on the political science theory of the "security dilemma": a situation in which each side's efforts to increase its own security threaten its rival, leading to a spiral of escalation that may result in an arms race, crisis or war.

The first was that it was more comprehensive and wide-ranging in its aims, and included signing agreements on arms control, crisis prevention, East West trade, European security and human rights.

The main risk of a nuclear Iran is not religiously-motivated nuclear war, but the traditional-and very grave-problems posed by the spread of nuclear weapons, including regional arms races, crisis instability, miscalculation, and the fact that nuclear weapons would reduce the ability of Israel and the United States to project conventional military power over it.

The sense that governments were finally acting to get their arms around the crisis sparked a global rebound in stock markets.

Myners became the only independent director after being parachuted in when its banking arm was in crisis in December amid allegations of drug-taking by its former chairman Paul Flowers.