Sentence examples for demilitarized in from inspiring English sources

The fort was demilitarized in 1905 after the separation of Norway from Sweden.

"Some people were selling guns that were demilitarized in Slovakia, and we know a Belgian guy bought these guns to sell them here," he told me.

His statement came a day after Sweden moved two fighter jets to Gotland, a Baltic island almost demilitarized in recent years due to spending cuts.

After undergoing minor reconstructions in 1924 and 1927, Hiei was demilitarized in 1929 to avoid being scrapped under the terms of the Washington Treaty; she was converted to a training ship in Kure from 1929 to 1932.

"And somehow, somewhere along the way, the guns got reactivated, because the procedure to demilitarize in Slovakia is not that good".

And though all the hardware looks fearsome, in order to be sold military equipment must be "demilitarized" -- in other words, it doesn't really shoot -- making tanks into little more than big tractors, capable of only a poof from a black-powder charge.

After the war, Germany was demilitarized; when, in 1952, the country was again allowed to maintain an army, Alois Ostermeier immediately signed up.

It's the advocacy work of groups like Jewish World Watch that has driven legislation to demilitarize mines in Congo and pushed companies such as Intel to develop conflict-free products, depriving warlords of the blood money that they need to murder.

Clifford Krauss (NYT) COLOMBIA: REBEL TALKS Delegations representing 21 nations, including European and United Nations diplomats, began two days of meetings with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the country's main left-wing guerrilla group, in a demilitarized area controlled by the rebels.

Norimitsu Onishi (NYT) THE AMERICAS COLOMBIA: PEACE EFFORT -- A day after the government's lead peace negotiator presented Marxist rebels with a proposal to restart stalled peace talks, the two sides met again in the demilitarized zone controlled by the guerrillas.

It did not take long for the U.S. to realize that it had gone too far in creating a demilitarized Japan.