Sentence examples for gathering arms from inspiring English sources

The tribes grew more polarized, and they began gathering arms to defend their economic interests.

Some have been returning to Iraq, gathering arms and setting up headquarters in towns in the south, where they have been trying to recruit supporters and organize demonstrations.

The many factions gaining strength in Syria's chaos — the Kurds gathering arms, the leaders of newly founded militias, the criminals, and the foreign jihadis — all have their own ends, and a unified nation may not be first among them.

"Everyone knows a fascist movement has seized power in Kiev … they're afraid to stick their nose in here without weapons". The Soviet government first started gathering arms in the mine in 1957, creating a storage facility with lockers of weapons almost 150 metres beneath the ground, according to one of the protesters manning the blockade.

A spokesman for the occupation authority said it had learned from Najaf residents that insurgents following Moktada al-Sadr, the fervently anti-American cleric, were gathering arms, apparently to defend themselves against 2,500 American soldiers who have encircled the city.

The two leaders were to present a negotiated final plan for restoring the province's power-sharing government that addressed Sinn Fein demands aimed at securing a swift indication that the I.R.A. would call a halt to its operations, including recruitment, training, intelligence gathering, arms procurement and punishment attacks, and carry out a visible act of destroying its weapons.

In the past, the Defense Clandestine Service, the Defense Intelligence Agency's covert human-intelligence gathering arm, has employed CIA-developed internet-based covert communications platforms, as has the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service during joint operations conducted with the agency, said this person.

Their opponents appear to be part crime family and part terrorist organization, with a highly developed intelligence gathering arm.

Employing the gathering-arm principle, the Joy machine provided the pattern for future successful mobile loaders.

Bob had been a member of the Special Demonstrations Squad, the domestic-intelligence-gathering arm of the Metropolitan Police.

And this order, which is almost certainly one of many compelling phone-service providers to act as an information-gathering arm of the N.S.A., bears inspection.