Sentence examples for lacks weapons from inspiring English sources

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Now her women's medical brigade, which has 30 active members and 80 waiting to join, would be ready to fight, she said, although it lacks weapons, and the money to buy them.

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The cops lacked weapons and gasoline, the jail was horribly crowded, and the judges were afraid to come to work.

States are generally weak if not outright fragile; policemen and border guards lack weapons and surveillance equipment.

Lacking weapons or a party apparatus, they become pawns and bystanders in an increasingly lethal struggle between forces more ruthless and less principled than they.

Knees shook as the female, about 20 yards away, peered at the spot where the visitors — lacking weapons or vehicle of escape — were waiting.

Cutler is lacking weapons, however, with receiver Brandon Marshall gone and Kevin White likely to miss a big part of the campaign, although Alshon Jeffrey is a formidable option.

A senior Indian official in northern Kashmir said the extremist groups had been forced to change tactics in recent years because they lacked weapons.

At the time, it all seemed harmless — lacking weapons, the out-of-shape volunteers ran around cradling imaginary ones — but last month Turkey sent a hundred and fifty troops and twenty-five tanks to the camp.

Rebels had previously claimed they lacked weapons to strike at that range, but a spokesman for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic told AFP its fighters had shot down the two aircraft.

Reporter Laurent Van der Stockt from French newspaper Le Monde told the BBC that Free Syrian Army FSAA) commanders in Aleppo were full of confidence but were lacking weapons.

The reserve force lacked weapons.

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