Sentence examples for disarmed themselves from inspiring English sources

"disarmed themselves" is correct and can be used in written English
It means to remove weapons or defenses from oneself. Example: The soldiers disarmed themselves and laid down their rifles, signaling the end of the conflict.

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The problem is, many on the left have disarmed themselves against any possible counterattack.

"To put it bluntly," Mr. Frank said, "in the eyes of the North Korean leadership all three countries took the economic bait, foolishly disarmed themselves, and once they were defenseless, were mercilessly punished by the West".

"To put it bluntly, in the eyes of the North Korean leadership all three countries took the economic bait, foolishly disarmed themselves, and once they were defenseless, were mercilessly punished by the West," Mr. Frank said in a commentary on 38 North.

Soon after, a group of protesters disarmed themselves and followed, on their way to the clerk's office to file complaints against the gun ban.

However, these public declarations of obedience proved insufficient as in the closing speech of the congress, the lead author of the event's policy report, Snezhnevsky stated that they "have not disarmed themselves and continue to remain in the old anti-Pavlovian positions", thereby causing "grave damage to the Soviet scientific and practical psychiatry".

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It frustrates him that the "nuclear haves" seem uninterested in disarming themselves.

Healey closed with a plea to governments and to the hacker attendees of the conference: "Normally in warfare if one side disarms themselves all they've done is disarm themselves.

Being the big-market team, or the global superpower, doesn't help when your most potent weapons disarm themselves.

Maybe this is just another mood swing, or an effort to ratchet up the pressure again in hopes Iraqis will disarm themselves.

The change in position received little notice at the time because of another statement Trump made at that rally: that Hillary Clinton's bodyguards should disarm themselves, "to see what happens".

It would at least signal the commitment of its generals to opening up the army's local activities to scrutiny, and to carrying out their promise to disarm themselves.With the West preoccupied with its own war over Kosovo, and the prospect of keeping the peace once it is over, East Timor may seem a distant and minor concern.

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