Sentence examples for quantity of weapons from inspiring English sources

The sheer quantity of weapons purchased is both absurd and frightening.

Opposition groups in this area, it seemed, appeared to have received a sizable quantity of weapons from sources outside Syria.

Sarah Lyall (NYT) KOSOVO: ARMS SEIZED British and other troops made a major raid in an Albanian stronghold, seizing a large quantity of weapons and ammunition.

General Salahuddin said that the authorities had recovered a substantial quantity of weapons and ammunition, and that the organization's network had been disrupted.

A shipment of such a large quantity of weapons from Iran by sea would also be a departure from past practices.

The exact number of insurgents and the quantity of weapons they possess have been relayed to the army, Mr. Murad said.

In 1979, an explosion at another Soviet site released a large quantity of weapons-grade anthrax; 68 people died.

Thus Tom Cochran said his greatest fear is what you might call a bespoke nuke -- terrorists stealing a quantity of weapons-grade uranium and taking it to Iraq or Iran or Libya, letting the scientists and engineers there fashion it into an elementary weapon and then taking it away for a delivery that would have no return address.

He was one of the chief cheerleaders for the theory that Iraq had vast quantities of weapons of mass destruction.

"I can't imagine bigger quantities of weapons being moved without state sanctioning," he said.

The war, along with the huge quantities of weapons and money that streamed into the country, helped to radicalize Pakistan.