Sentence examples for cold weapons from inspiring English sources

To elude the peacekeepers' attention, he had told his men to stop shooting and instead use "cold weapons": tying people up, smashing them against the pavement to stun them, and throwing them into the river.

She is shown to excel at hand-to-hand combat and likes to use cold weapons (such as swords).

So why spend billions on a cold war weapons system that is effectively useless?

The business is based on Russia's taking advantage of excess enrichment capacity that is a legacy of cold war weapons programs.

Today's only superpower uses its old cold war weapons, not against totalitarian regimes, but against governments that Washington has tired of.

On the one hand, the government is going to waste billions on Cold War weapons our poorly equipped troops will never need or use.

It recognizes the need to rebalance American forces to perform multiple new tasks and to finally jettison cold war weapons that are too expensive, over budget, underperforming or ill suited to today's missions.

A8 Cold War Weapons Program The Pentagon has assured Congress that it will continue its inquiry into a cold war program that tested the vulnerability of American forces to chemical or biological attack.

The small bombs, three of which were found to contain sarin, a potentially lethal substance, were produced at the arsenal in the 1950's as part of the nation's cold war weapons buildup.

To find those savings, the Pentagon must also sharply prune the tens of billions it spends every year on building new versions of cold war weapons systems ill suited to America's 21st-century military needs: aircraft carriers, nuclear attack submarines, stealth destroyers and manned aerial combat fighters.

"The Pentagon Budget and the Deficit" (editorial, Sept. 27) is on target in calling on the Pentagon to "sharply prune the tens of billions it spends every year on building new versions of cold war weapons systems ill suited to America's 21st-century military needs".