Sentence examples for purity of arms from inspiring English sources
It means literally "the purity of arms".
One example is the tendency of Israelis to hail the "purity of arms" of their soldiers and to contrast this with Arab "barbarism".
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers lost their lives, along with thousands of Arabs, and the Israeli Army, which claims as its ethos "Tohar Ha'neshek" ("the purity of arms"), gained a reputation for callousness and excess.
Israel needs to ask itself some tough questions about the extreme firepower unleashed in congested civilian areas by an army once proud of its "purity of arms".Israel's critics may have to ask themselves some tough questions too.
He resisted all attempts by defence ministers to set up "national security councils" over his head, and ran Jonathan Pollard, who spied for Israel in Washington in the mid-1980s, without letting anyone in the cabinet know.Most of all, he claimed, he cared about the concept of tohar haneshek, "purity of arms": the question of when it was legitimate to kill, and when it was not.
I am equally sure that the Tsahal I know, careful with human lives and imbued with the purity of arms, this army that is not only ultra-sophisticated but profoundly democratic as well, whose conduct in times of war I have often admired, had other means of action available than to set off this blood bath.
The reason for the lower coverage of 6BS remains unclear, but it is likely a consequence of the purity of the sorted chromosome arm DNA (Table 1), the number of WGP tags on each BAC (Additional file 2) or differences in the genomic structure between 6BS and 6BL (e.g., the Nor-B2 region with highly repetitive rRNA gene sequences).
Does it not seem, I don't know, convenient, that Our Lord and Saviour is usually depicted thusly: large cherubic eyes turned upwards to the heavens, an expression of purity and pain, arms outstretched so as to expose his vulnerability and buff wiry torso?
Marching arm in arm with the wife of Jean-Marie Le Pen on behalf of the racial purity of Cameroonian Pygmies, Dieudonné excoriates Jews for their fanaticism, tribalism, and exclusivity.
So last year, when I went to Bestival to test the purity of the drugs that had been smuggled in, it wasn't a huge surprise that people had armed themselves with a large range of illicit substances.
