Sentence examples for over their arms from inspiring English sources

"So about 12 or 14 soldiers were hostages," he said, "and 8 of them turned over their arms and joined the people.

In Ivory Coast, a third mission is trying to coax government and rebel leaders to turn over their arms -- so far, in vain.

Embarrassingly for Washington, a group armed by the US, Divisionn 30', handed over their arms to al-Nusra almost as soon as they crossed into Syria from Turkey earlier this month.

"So far, it appears that the militias are being very cooperative in turning over their arms," said Simatupang, the police superintendent in the West Timor border town of Atambua, where the three aid workers were killed.

"Immunity will be applied to former N.L.A. fighters who voluntarily handed over their arms before Sept. 26," Mr. Trajkovski, referring to the turnover of arms to NATO, confirmed in a letter to the heads of NATO, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

It will mean getting to the bottom of who among the rebels killed their own Commander Younis in Benghazi at the end of July; and finally getting the splintering militias to turn over their arms to a national police force; and assuring that victory over the tyrant does not become a blood feud against his clansmen.

If you're that close to somebody who's had manic spells, running out into the street in their nightclothes, going up to a woman's house and punching her face through a window, with glass smashing all over their arm…" he breaks off as if he's still picking out the shards in his mind.

After any major example of man's inhumanity, religious fanaticism or simple tragedy, they would appear portentously at the world's side, napkin draped over their arm to decide who, what, where and for how long it was proper to mourn, or whether one was allowed to mourn at all.

In the "Girls Trip" scene, wearing stolen wigs, the posse alternates between choreographed blows and twerks until, exhausted, they fall over, splaying their arms, smacking their thighs — a surfeit of unworried vulgarity.

In "Redline" six dancers hunch over, fixing their arms to their thighs while moving aggressively to electronic music.

I'm surrounded by springtime gym-goers obsessing over toning their arms for tank tops and crunching their bellies firm for Spanx-less sundresses, but I am not one of them.