Sentence examples for phrase weapons from inspiring English sources

I read technical books, talked to countless experts, and soon learned that these were, in Warren Buffett's famous phrase, weapons of financial mass destruction.

The use of the plural noun phrase "weapons of mass destruction" as the first part of a compound adjective modifying the plural noun phrase "program activities" -- with that second noun phrase itself one step removed from an actual "program" -- drew derision-related hooting activity from the many critics of a key justification for the overthrow of Saddam.

In remarks Thursday afternoon, the prime minister, Dmitri A. Medvedev, uttered the phrase "nuclear weapons" in a reference to the United States.

In last year's State of the Union, Bush's buzz phrase was "weapons of mass destruction," the threat of which justified the impending conquest of Iraq.

Critics on the left hear Orwellian resonances in phrase like "weapons of mass protection," for nonlethal arms, or in names like the Patriot Act or the Homeland Security Department's Operation Liberty Shield, which authorizes indefinite detention of asylum-seekers from certain nations.

The military censor's office, which has less and less to do, still changes the phrase "nuclear weapons" in news articles to "nuclear option" or "nuclear capability" and requires that mention of Israel's arsenal in Israeli newspapers be followed by the words "according to foreign sources".

The Republican convention in New York this September is intended to drive one point home: that ever since September 11th 2001, a warrior president has been engaged in an all-out war on Islamofascism.Two years ago this re-election strategy looked like a "slam dunk" (to borrow George Tenet's unfortunate phrase about weapons of mass destruction).

When all we could talk about was retreat...one of those propaganda-campaign types who'd never seen action, who'd sat out the war in a cushy office job and gone on to churn out best-sellers in an only slightly modified diction — pulled the phrase "miracle weapon" out of his sleeve.

The attorney also points out use of the phrase "ultimate combat weapons system" and an ad featuring the silhouette of a solider superimposed over an American flag.

Iran seems relatively comfortable with the relationship, mainly because the Russians are just about the only people you can talk to these days who don't pitch a complete fit at the phrase "Iranian nuclear weapons".

To draw upon Allison's phrasing: no nuclear weapons, no nuclear explosion, no nuclear terrorism.