Sentence examples for influential weapons from inspiring English sources

The war also benefited influential weapons manufacturers, leading to an increase in U.S. military spending by more than $13 billion, largely for weapons systems that most strategic analysts and even the Pentagon said weren't needed.

A more practical and influential weapon was the self-propelled or Whitehead torpedo.

But the leaders of Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia and other influential non-nuclear-weapon states have not embraced Mr. Obama's logic that step-by-step progress on disarmament needs to be reciprocated by step-by-step progress in strengthening the nonproliferation regime.

Teller, who eventually replaced Oppenheimer as the nation's most influential adviser on nuclear weapons, testified in 1954 that Oppenheimer should be denied a security clearance.

As head of cost assessment and program evaluation, a small but influential office that evaluates weapons systems, Fox worked closely with Hagel and his predecessors, earning a reputation for hard-nosed analysis while working on a review of "strategic choices" necessitated by the defense cuts ordered by Congress.

The decision sets the stage for a showdown with the weapon's influential supporters in Congress and the embattled Army secretary who fought to save it.

At Stanford, he helped write influential articles on China's weapons programs that Chinese prosecutors here have charged included vital state secrets.

A22 Rumsfeld Cuts Howitzer System Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has decided to cancel the Army's $11 billion Crusader artillery system, a weapons program that has influential supporters in Congress.

The meeting, she said, was meant to offer a chance for Russians to learn about the activities of the "most influential association of owners of civilian weapons in the world".

At a time when the prospects for immigration overhaul seem most dim, supporters have unleashed a secret weapon: a group of influential evangelical Christian leaders.

As a scientist and political heavyweight within his party, Joshi is also expected to be an influential voice in the government's nuclear weapons policy.