Sentence examples for civilian technologies from inspiring English sources

It is relatively easy to convert civilian technologies to weapons the minute no one is looking.

Mr. Mulvenon said that the pace of technological change means that products with mainly civilian applications, like management computer systems with powerful video surveillance features, had blurred the distinction between law enforcement and civilian technologies.

The agreement paves the way for the United Nations Security Council to again take up before the end of May an American proposal to impose "smart sanctions" on Iraq that will lift restrictions on food, civilian technologies and relief goods exported to Iraq.

Within days of Mr. Clinton's election in 1992, advisers to the president-elect said Mr. Gore would be in charge of a broad initiative on science and technology, heralding what they promised would be a new era in which the government's focus on making armaments would shift to fostering new civilian technologies and industries.

Reprints Related items Arms exports to China: A $15 billion boom?Feb 24th 2005The administration is worried that European weapons and civilian technologies with military uses could increasingly help China challenge America at what it is best at: high-tech battle management.

The committee will strengthen management of defense science and technology, promote indigenous innovation in national defense, and coordinate integrated development of military and civilian technologies, the spokesperson says.

The new law gives Mr. Obama the authority to return communications satellites to their previous status as civilian technology.

The defense bill that President Obama signed will undo that step and let American companies sell communications satellites as civilian technology rather than as deadly arms.

And its record on nonproliferation — aside from its own diversion of civilian technology to its once-secret weapons program — is pretty good.

In fact, ever since the end of the cold war, far from American industry getting a hidden subsidy from the Pentagon, civilian technology has underwritten much of America's defence effort.

The NSG was formed following the explosion by India in 1974 of a nuclear device that had been built by using civilian technology acquired under the auspices of the United States-sponsored Atoms for Peace Program.