Sentence examples for modest weapons from inspiring English sources

With so little time, the goal was to extend and update inspection and verification systems while enacting modest weapons cuts as a down payment on deeper reductions later.

The Kidd-class destroyers carry more modest weapons and radar systems than the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, but the ships would nonetheless be the largest and most powerful in Taiwan's navy.

When Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island asked whether a more modest weapon might not do the trick, Trotter said, "You can not understand.

Ehud Yaari, a well-connected Middle East analyst, wrote last October that some rebel groups were maintaining "constant contact with the IDF" (Israel Defence Forces) though they had only been given a modest amount of weapons.

"Robert Lazzarini: Guns and Knives," at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, presents only six works, all of them modest wall sculptures of weapons.

Before tackling a new form of energy, he will address slightly more modest tasks: detecting nuclear weapons and diagnosing cancer with his technology.

It took "Ban the Bomb" marches, a health outcry about Strontium 90 in mother's milk, the trauma of the Cuban missile crisis, the 1980s nuclear-freeze movement, and repeated nuclear meltdowns to create modest systems of nuclear weapons management.

If Mr. Formichetti is the label's ideas man, Mr. Peigné is its secret weapon: a modest guy with his feet seemingly planted on the ground.

Early experiments with floating petroleum on the sea and igniting it were not entirely successful: the fuel was difficult to ignite, large quantities were required to cover even modest areas and the weapon was easily disrupted by waves.

But he would plow the savings into troops and weapons modernization, maintaining modest growth in overall spending.

Consequently, the reductions are modest, but each of these weapons is capable of destroying a city with a population of several million inhabitants.