Sentence examples for misuse of weapons from inspiring English sources

Blackwater has dismissed 122 of its employees over the past three years for misuse of weapons, drug or alcohol abuse, lewd conduct or violent behavior, according to the report.

A dossier (pdf) by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights independently corroborates Amnesty's allegations: The human rights violations perpetrated... have included killings of fugitives, prisoners and detainees, injuries caused by severe physical violence, torture and misuse of weapons, the imposition of house arrest, and other restrictions that have been imposed on civil society organisations.

The human cost of such inadequate controls, and the corresponding widespread availability and misuse of weapons, is unacceptably high.

In many cases, the armed violence that drove them from their homes was fuelled by the widespread availability and misuse of weapons.

Another dire consequence of inadequate controls on arms transfers and the corresponding widespread availability and misuse of weapons is the frequent suspension or delay of life-saving humanitarian and development operations because of threats to the safety of, or actual attacks against, our staff and those of other organizations.

It was exactly to prevent this kind of misuse of U.S. weapons that Congress passed the Arms Export Control Act, which strictly limits foreign countries from employing U.S. weapons for any purpose other than "internal security" or "legitimate self-defense".

But at the first test of the new law, the UK has turned a blind eye to mounting evidence of the potential misuse of its weapons.

Earlier reports described security lapses including the bugging of a conference room and the theft of a laptop computer, loaded with highly classified information, at the State Department; allegations of misuse of nuclear weapons information at Los Alamos; and concerns about government officials flouting security regulations.

"Misuse of these weapons must be addressed and the bill takes this objective a step closer".

I spoke to Rachel Harger, a civil liberties paralegal, and she was also worried about misuse of these weapons.

And new nuclear powers are not starting from scratch in preventing accidental detonation or misuse of their nuclear weapons.