Sentence examples for ordnance from inspiring English sources

But the fear – among rivals and shareholders, if not shoppers – is that chief executive Phil Clarke will eventually bring out the heavy ordnance.

Obama has tugged at the needle of our moral compasses several times with soundbites loaded with ethical ordnance.

Since then, Médecins Sans Frontières has opened a clinic where doctors have treated gunshot wounds and children injured by unexploded ordnance.

Food prices have risen sharply since the start of the war as fields are inaccessible or full of unexploded ordnance, and farms have been badly damaged.

One-third of the country is still contaminated by unexploded American ordnance.

The Palestinian militias and police forces (they are by now much the same) have suffered grievous blows during the Israeli offensive: scores have been killed, hundreds detained (more than 4,000, said Israel on April 11th) and arms, equipment and ordnance seized.

Which is why less elegant but far cheaper balloons are now being used instead.Such blimps can keep surveillance and ordnance-guiding equipment aloft for a few hundred dollars an hour.

But Mr Loppion has had to abandon plans for a joint venture in ammunition and artillery with BAe's Royal Ordnance: his workers cannot be transferred to a partly-private entity without parliamentary legislation and there is little prospect of that or of privatisation.

You gaze at them on a map – the greater and lesser squiggles on the Ordnance Survey's snakes-and-ladders grid.

The fear among geographic-information firms is that the Ordnance Survey is planning to hog the whole, potentially very lucrative, business of accurate addresses, with the government's tacit consent.

The Land Registry, which records who owns British land, the Met Office, which makes weather predictions, and the Ordnance Survey, which produces maps, could all go on the block.