Sentence examples for purchase of arms from inspiring English sources

Soon after the outbreak of the civil war, he went to Lisbon to set up a mission with Nicolás Franco for the purchase of arms for the rebels.

Although Egypt was rewarded for its participation by forgiveness of billions of dollars that it owed for the purchase of arms from the West, many Egyptian expatriate workers lost their jobs in Iraq because of that country's invasion of Kuwait.

Mr. García, who ran a strong second in the May presidential election runoff, was accused of taking kickbacks related to the building of an unfinished rail line in Lima and to the purchase of arms.

21 July: The US announces new sanctions on North Korea, following the crisis over the sinking of a South Korean warship, targeting Pyongyang's sale and purchase of arms and import of luxury goods.

Speaking in South Korea on Wednesday, Mrs Clinton said the new US sanctions would target Pyongyang's sale and purchase of arms and import of luxury goods, and would help prevent nuclear proliferation.

Undamaged works remained in Grozny, but Russian officials say most of them disappeared during Chechnya's de facto independence from 1996 to 1999 and some believe that they may have been sold by Chechen rebel groups to fund the purchase of arms.

Philip Hammond's response to SoftBank's planned purchase of ARM Holdings was ludicrous, or at least grossly superficial.

I am not suggesting that SoftBank's purchase of ARM is as dubious as Green's sale of BHS to serial bankrupt Dominic Chappell.

Scratch the surface of "Silicon Fen", however, and there is significant unease – and not only about the planned purchase of ARM by SoftBank.

The purchase of ARM is a bet by SoftBank that computing power and connectivity will be embedded into almost every physical object in the world, from cars to wristwatches, from air conditioning to light switches, until it becomes as invisible, as ubiquitous and as indispensable as electricity.

The deal introduces a new chapter into the ongoing story of Softbank's larger investment strategy — which changed under the leadership of Nikesh Arora to focus much more aggressively on investing in tech companies, but appeared to be changing tack again and slowing down after Arora's departure and SoftBank's big purchase of ARM in the U.K. for $31.4 billion.