Sentence examples for instead of missiles from inspiring English sources
Call it Ping-Pong diplomacy across the Taiwan Strait mainlandd China lobs balls instead of missiles at the islanders, and the Taiwanese get to fight back.
NASA collaborated with the fire service in 2007, providing its Ikhana aircraft, a modified version of the Predator drone fitted with infrared sensors instead of missiles, that flew out of the space agency's Dryden Flight Research Center in California.
Instead of missiles and tanks, factories that produce weapons of war could be repurposed to improve the world we live in.
Now, the lenders have surrounded the Congress with their siege towers (likely tossing campaign cash instead of missiles from their trebuchets), asking it to delay additional protections against their unfair practices while needless, redundant studies are prepared.
The weapons, instead of cruise missiles, are machetes, AK-47 assault rifles and suicide bombers.
Seriously, the scientists that came up with the SDI are currently working to create a system that will take out mosquito's instead of nuclear missiles.
Instead of matching missile forces in a costly arms race, China developed a small force under the assumption it could ride out a nuclear attack, then still hit an enemy city with a few bombs -- enough to make any opponent think twice.
Many years later a related term "Fighter Mafia" described those within the Air Force that favoured light weight fighters good at dog-fighting instead of heavy missile-firing fighters.
But in some cases the documents show that the American military made misleading public statements — attributing the downing of a helicopter to conventional weapons instead of heat-seeking missiles or giving Afghans credit for missions carried out by Special Operations commandos.
What if we were sending blessings instead of bombs and missiles?
Instead of upgrading nuclear missiles, we should be investing in the capabilities our troops actually need to protect America and ready to meet 21st century challenges.
