Sentence examples for big stockpile from inspiring English sources

But killing large numbers of people with chemical weapons would require a big stockpile of deadly substances which would be difficult to accumulate without attracting suspicion.

No one seriously thought the superpowers crazy enough to use germ warfare.That view changed when it turned out, first, that the Soviet Union had set up a big stockpile of biological weapons, and, second, when "advances" in biotechnology made the idea of attacking particular groups of people feasible, reducing unpredictability.

On most plausible scenarios, that big stockpile will be around $4 trillion by the end of the programme, whether the Fed starts to taper now, or in December.

And for big stockpiles, and in countries with tough environmental rules, that may not be possible.

Lower and lower rates may eventually encourage corporations to invest the big stockpiles of cash in plants and equipment.

The government had previously set high internal prices to encourage farmers to grow cotton, but the policy resulted in overproduction and big stockpiles.

But they have less chance of becoming big exporters of finished products, because the end users, such as car makers, may prefer having their sheets, plates and tubes knocked up locally, thus making it easier to change specifications rapidly, and reducing the need to keep big stockpiles in case of shipping delays.

The Federal Reserve is also considering barring banks from trading in physical commodities (as opposed to derivatives tied to commodities).In principle, banks are still free to "make markets" by selling stocks, bonds and the like to their customers, but new capital rules have made it harder for them to hold big stockpiles of corporate bonds and other volatile financial instruments.

Bank of England governor Mark Carney told a committee of MPs that a new central bank in an independent Scotland would need big stockpiles of sterling if the country opted to adopt the pound without an agreement with the rest of the United Kingdom.

Ministers' preferred option on dealing with the problem of the huge mountain of civilian plutonium at Sellafield – the biggest stockpile in the world – is to build a second Mox fuel plant.

New figures suggest China's government has also thrown its fish back into the sea: it sold Japanese securities worth ¥2 trillion in August.China holds by far the world's biggest stockpile of foreign-exchange reserves, worth $2.6 trillion at the end of the third quarter.