During the N.F.L. scouting combine, one team executive after another stepped to a microphone to declare that his team would not use the franchise tag, probably providing relief to players who fear being hit with the contractual tool one agent calls "a weapon of mass destruction for the teams".
Kimathi dedicates an entire section of the site to warning against the "Effeminization of the Black Male," which he calls a "weapon of mass destruction" used against the black community.
Steve Barborini, a former supervisor for the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, told MSNBC that the online sales loophole permits what he called "a weapons bazaar for criminals".
"I attempted to use an explosive device which in the U.S. law is a weapon of mass destruction, which I call a blessed weapon to save the lives of innocent Muslims, for U.S. use of weapons of mass destruction on Muslim populations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and beyond," Mr. Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian citizen in his 20s, said quietly and calmly.
It was the first time he had seen the effects of what he called a "chemical weapon".
Be that as it may, the spouse is almost always called a "secret weapon," a phrase worn to the nub, as I noted in a column late last year.
Game theory, he argues, isn't just part of "hegemonic cold war discourse," but what the political scientist James Scott called a subversive "weapon of the weak".
A Moses Lake, Wash., boy, upset that he'd been grounded, is accused of shooting his parents with what police called a "family weapon"—a.22 caliber revolver kept in "a gun cabinet of sorts".
Clerky may not be a household name like TurboTax today, but the company's business formation software has been called a "secret weapon" by startup founders in Silicon Valley for years.
Camera operator: "Yeah, they called a possible weapon on the military-age male mounted in the back of the truck".
It truly is, as the US secretary of state John Kerry has just called it, a "weapon of mass destruction".
