Sentence examples for on armaments from inspiring English sources
On 21 July 1768, Endeavour sailed to Galleon's Reach to take on armaments to protect her against potentially hostile Pacific island natives.
The real recovery from the Great Depression came with the fiscal stimulus engendered by the second world war, when no one complained that governments were wasting money on armaments and air-raid shelters.
Most Iraqi households own at least one gun, so there has been no particular run on armaments.
The plans, they explained, violate US export controls on armaments.
In her speech, Kopacz preferred to focus mostly on armaments and better tax deals, and credit options for entrepreneurs.
The army is with him: he pays the troops, and has raised spending on armaments by 50percentt.
"We need to agree on armament, on deployment, on the timeframe … If we don't agree, nobody will enter South Sudan.
World peace, both Premier Blum and Ambassador Bullitt agreed, is dependent on cessation of armaments and dissipation of distrust among nations, which alone can bring about economic recovery through abolition of trade restrictions.
Shortly thereafter, Moscow declined to set a date for resuming talks on strategic arms reduction and on conventional armaments.
He was the biggest coal operator in Germany, owned cement and allied industries, and broke the Krupp monopoly on heavy armaments manufacturing during World War I.
Alas, that is the predicament in which this author finds himself as we await the opening of Jeunet's latest film (only his sixth feature), Micmacs – a satire on the armaments business.
