Sentence examples for common weapon from inspiring English sources

The most common weapon in Scotland is a blade, not a Buckfast bottle.

Rape is a terrifyingly common weapon used to terrorise and control communities during warfare.

A common weapon in the war against bedbugs in libraries is the PackTite, which sells for about $300.

In the capital, attackers using guns with silencers — an increasingly common weapon of choice — killed an officer assigned to protect embassies.

Since 2005, suicide bombings have been a common weapon for the Taliban and militants of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, who have drawn on the example set by terrorist groups in Iraq.

The most common weapon is the knife, which is used to slit the throat of the human or animal victim, a practice observed, for example, by Semites, Muslims, and ancient Greeks.

("Arrows, used for hunting and battle, are the most common weapons buried with women, but swords, daggers, spears, armor, shields, and sling stones are also found," Mayor writes).

One is that consolidation makes sense only if there are common weapons programmes for the firms to work on: while BAe and Dassault make different aircraft, a merger would not create many economies of scale.

It should mandate disclosure of data theft and other digital attacks — to trusted private parties, if not to the public or the government — so that firms can share information about common weapons and best defenses, and so the public can better assess which firms' computer systems are secure.

Armed with academia's common weapons, indignation and verbosity, they said they were all "disturbed by the ideological and disciplinary preference implied by the university's massive support for the economic and political doctrines that have extended from Friedman's work", and pleaded for time for discussion.

But soldiers and Marines have been told for years not to combine these two naturally paired items — captured ammunition with captured arms — for training or other uses, even though practice with the most common weapons in Afghanistan could reasonably be seen as a valuable part of preparing for the war's daily work.