Sentence examples for hostile use from inspiring English sources

In 1977, the United States and other countries signed a treaty forbidding the hostile use of environmental modification.

The report, The Hostile Use of Drones by Non-State Actors Against British Targets, highlights concerns that "drones will be used as simple, affordable and effective airborne improvised explosive devices".

In the days after the Parliament House strike, John McLaughlin, then the deputy C.I.A. director, reported to the Bush Cabinet that C.I.A. and other intelligence analysts believed that, because of confusion among Indian and Pakistani decision-makers about when and how a conventional war could escalate, there was a serious risk of the first hostile use of nuclear weapons since Nagasaki.

To "negate the hostile use of space" against it, the commission said, America would need to be able to project power "in, from and through space"—a challenge neither Russia nor China is likely to ignore.Back on earth, arms cuts announced by one side can add to uncertainty if there is no means to check that what is promised is done.

I know of no way to control local or regional climate with geoengineering without effects elsewhere, but while it is possible that such techniques could be developed by research, geoengineering for hostile purposes is prohibited by the United Nations Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.

The deliberate, repeated, hostile use of digital technology (primarily social media) to denigrate, harass and otherwise harm other people is a new and ubiquitous form of childhood torture.

The authors argue that while hostile uses of neuroscience and related technologies are ever more likely, scientists remain almost oblivious to the dual uses of their research.

By forcing her family to see her as she sees herself, Maura also acts as a mirror, reflecting back the "queerness" in everyone around her: Sarah, who jumps into bed with an ex-girlfriend; Ali, who abuses her body, in ways both playful and hostile, using drugs and sex; and Josh, whose boyishness hints at something more uncomfortable, bound up in the secrets his family has agreed to bury.

Yet Facebook has rushed to normalize what are abnormally hostile uses of its tools; aka the weaponizing of disinformation to further divisive political ends — presenting 'election security' as just another day-to-day cost of being in the people farming business.

Preps executives for interviews and speeches about layoffs, product recalls and other crises; uses simulated environments with hostile audiences: Use "bridging" technique: when answering a hostile question, introduce another topic, preferably something the listener is passionate about.

Expect to see more American-style hostile takeovers, use of stock options for compensation, and layoffs on the continent, she says.