And even in a conflict that has plumbed new depths of depravity on all sides, the government emerges badly with its hideous barrel bombs pulverising neighbourhoods, cruel deployment of gas and utterly grotesque torture.
I support increased deployment of gas, if properly regulated, but to throw out our existing policy framework, to try to introduce a quickly sketched out new one, which will be as subject to fossil fuel interests lobbying as all the others, seems to me to be madness.
Involved in several research projects funded by France and European Union on carbon capture and storage, INERIS has worked for many years on the design, building, testing and field-deployment of gas monitoring devices in soil and subsurface on industrial sites.
Assad has been branded a war criminal, lambasted for his government's use of torture, bombardment of civilians, and deployment of chlorine gas.
Deployment of mustard gas, which remains toxic in an area for a long time, could be intended to render areas of the battlefield inaccessible to opposition fighters.
Spheres is a wildly eclectic work; the third part, on foam (Schäume), is full of reflections on such topics as the vitreous dreamland of the Great Exhibition, the Victorian invention of the concept of environment, the deployment of poison gas during the first world war and the geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller.
It states the department does not have a policy of exhausting all avenues of de-escalation before utilizing tactical Swat responses, which often resulted in "officers with long guns on the front lines and the deployment of tear gas without proper documentation or sufficient warning".
While those meetings were private, their public responses so far have relied on a combination of tactics including denunciations of the protesters as foreign-led, offers of monetary and other concessions to undercut complaints of injustice, and the generous deployment of tear gas, truncheons and other blunt instruments of repression.
Even the deployment of tear gas on the border isn't a new phenomenon.
The army's assault included the deployment of tear gas, army tanks and 70,000 troops.
Some rebels are using the regime's alleged deployment of the nerve gas sarin as another reason to avoid negotiations and prolong the war.
