Sentence examples for intermediate weapons from inspiring English sources

You started intermediate weapons; we did not have any.

Geoffrey Alpert, a professor at the University of South Carolina who has studied the use of force by the police, said questions that need to be asked in such cases are whether the officer could have used an "intermediate weapon" other than a gun, or had the chance to retreat.

Moreover, the Soviets can replace their intermediate-range weapons with others not covered by the treaty — and still have missiles targeted on Europe.

As finally deployed, the U.S. cruise missiles were intermediate-range weapons that flew at an altitude of 100 feet to a range of 1,500 miles.

When Reagan, in 1981, proposed the "zero-zero" option (the removal of all American and Soviet intermediate-range weapons that could hit Europe or the Soviet Union from Europe), the prevailing wisdom here was that the Soviets would never accept it — indeed, that is why Pentagon officials backed the idea, over the objections of the State Department.

treaty leaves us worse off, because it deprives us of some things we had long sought: a policy, through the presence of our intermediate-range weapons in Europe, of "flexible response," and a confidence on the part of the Europeans that we will defend them against a Soviet attack.

The European system must also be able to deal with two kinds of missiles, intercontinental-range missiles fired at America and intermediate-range weapons fired at Europe, with different trajectories and speeds.General Trey Obering, director of the Missile Defence Agency (MDA), calls Pentagon evaluators "very pessimistic".

It produced no breakthrough on the burning East-West issue of the hour, a deal to rid Europe of intermediate range nuclear weapons.

It also rekindled complaints that the United States and other NATO nations had disregarded a 1997 agreement with Russia limiting the deployment of forces in former Eastern Bloc countries, and noted that the American missile defense program employed decoy rockets seemingly belonging to a class of missiles banned under a treaty on intermediate range nuclear weapons.

The strategy worked, and by 1987 the U.S. and Soviet Union had agreed to the elimination of all intermediate range nuclear weapons.

This was also a period where rapid development of techniques and training in the use of large guns made the inclusion of rapid-fire intermediate and secondary weapons unnecessary.