Sentence examples for conventional attacks from inspiring English sources

The daily bombardments (by all sides in the conflict) violate the Geneva Conventions and many "conventional" attacks are also war crimes.

The insurgency's conventional attacks are proving deadlier than ever.

American surveillance identified its locations, and it was degraded through conventional attacks.

Horrific as the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack was, it was no more horrific than the conventional attacks that caused the deaths of 100,000 Syrians.

Indeed, in the last couple of weeks, President Bashar al-Assad seems to have stepped up the pace of bombing, shelling and other conventional attacks on civilian areas.

Reluctant to accept a blanket obligation, American negotiators wanted to limit the definition of aggression to (unlikely) conventional attacks by land, sea or air.

Yet... the conventional attack on the decision suffers from grave deficiencies.

A conventional attack on such a site would be the functional equivalent of a chemical weapons attack.

Instead it repeatedly proclaims its readiness to go nuclear in response to a decisive Indian conventional attack.

The rebels said the government's presumed goal was to weaken the opposition before a major conventional attack with tanks, armored personnel carriers and attack planes.

Those covert operations, and the question of whether Israel will settle for something less than a conventional attack on Iran, pose immediate and wrenching decisions for Mr. Obama.