Sentence examples for local firepower from inspiring English sources
The peaceful demonstrations of 2011 seem a long way away now, as civil war rages among regime forces, Sunni rebel groups -- both moderate and extremist, like the so-called Islamic State -- Kurdish fighters and a myriad of other groups, all of which include both foreign and local firepower.
Mr. Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics, whose current movies include "The Band's Visit," "Married Life" and "The Counterfeiters," suggested that losing some local critical firepower is troubling for both readers and distributors.
Despite their efforts to rattle us, they don't end up beating anyone and instead storm off to the commissioner's office to enlist more angry locals and firepower.
The Singapore Exchange's $8.3bn £5.3bnn) takeover of Australia ASX to form Asia's fourth-biggest stock exchange may at first sight look like a tie-up to give two local players more firepower.
After the championship match, in which South Florida could not handle Montgomery's firepower, the local fans — three Jamaican retirees sitting in the shade — nodded in approval, clapping politely.
But until there is better data on which kinds of equipment are actually saving officers' lives and deterring crime, any blanket call for increased firepower at local law enforcement agencies seems difficult to justify.
But most assets could be trusted only in a very narrow context, and locals routinely sought American firepower to back them in personal or tribal disputes.
For local siege situations requiring real firepower, police there can use a new $256,643 armored truck, complete with a rotating turret.
Even if the technology in question is not that sophisticated, or locals could muster the engineering firepower to develop it quickly, the foreign entrant may still have the upper hand.
The combination of western firepower and funding for local forces has repeatedly proved a potent one in Pakistan, Nigeria, Somalia, Libya, Mali and elsewhere.
