Sentence examples for ordnances from inspiring English sources

According to the HALO foundation, a global organisation that works to remove these ordnances, the country still has the highest ratio of amputees – an estimated 25,000 – per capita in the world.

The movie, which was directed by Branagh and written by Adam Cozad and David Koepp, features some rifles and revolvers but few of the bases, missiles, advanced artillery, and ecstatically enumerated ordnances and ranges that Clancy loved so well.

Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria, 29 schools have been "physically affected by shells, mortars or barrel-bombs, vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, stray bullets and unexploded ordnances", says UNRWA.

The organization has unearthed 2,500 antitank mines, 135,000 antipersonnel mines and 630,000 unexploded ordnances, Mr. Elmi, the acting director, said.

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.