Sentence examples for ordnance munitions from inspiring English sources

A combination of 20th century warfare alongside the storage of and frequent testing of munitions by various national armed forces has contributed to a legacy of unexploded ordnance, munitions, and explosives of concern (MEC).

With reference to the "arms, ordnance, munition, shot, powder, or habiliments of war belonging to the United States" provision of section 16, Currie argues that it could have been justified under Congress's Article One power to "raise and support armies" or Congress's Article Four power to make needful rules respecting "property belonging to the United States".

As Master of the Ordnance Warwick presided over an increasingly important government department, which centrally managed the storage and commissioning of the state's artillery, munitions, and small arms.

With funding from the Government of Japan, UNICEF is promoting safer behaviour amongst the population, especially children, through education and training, dissemination of information, education and communication materials and community mobilization to reduce risk from mines, unexploded ordnances and abandoned munitions.

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Neutral Switzerland stockpiled the munitions — artillery shells, hand grenades, ordinary bullets and other ordnance — during the war in the event of an invasion by Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy, which never came about.

Impact of conflict The presence of landmines, abandoned munitions, and unexploded ordnances inside Libya continue to pose a serious threat to civilians - particularly children.

Landmines, abandoned munitions and unexploded ordnances continue to pose a serious threat to children, in addition to the wide presence of small arms and weapons, held at times by adolescents.

The buildings are actually disguised warehouses full of munitions — mortar shells, artillery rounds, anti-tank missiles and more — thousands of pieces of military ordnance that are completely unguarded more than two weeks after the fall of the capital.

NATO also said that allied forces did not use cluster munitions or ordnance containing depleted uranium, both of which pose health and environmental risks, in Libya at any time.

A fire set off a chain of explosions at a U.S.-controlled munitions dump, sending ordnance shrieking into residential areas, killing at least six.