Sentence examples for smaller scale against from inspiring English sources

If it came late in the year, it would suggest that they believed the cyberprogram, once exposed, had little chance of further success, and that they were turning back to plans for airstrikes like the one Israel mounted, on a smaller scale, against a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007.

The UN mission said it collected evidence "consistent with the probable use of chemical weapons in Jobar on August 24, 2013 on a relatively small scale against soldiers".

The UN mission said it collected evidence "that suggests that chemical weapons were used in Ashrafia Sahnaya on August 25, 2013 on a small scale against soldiers".

The White House said on Thursday that the Assad regime had used chemical weapons "on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year".

Mr. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, told reporters Thursday that chemical weapons were used "on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year".

At that time, the White House said Syria had used chemical weapons "on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year", announcing it would begin supplying opposition fighters in the country with small arms and ammunition.

Following a deliberative review, our intelligence community assesses that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year.

Last month the Obama administration, which has called chemical weapons use a "red line" that could lead to American military action, said it had concluded that Syrian forces had deployed such weapons "on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year," not only in Khan al-Assal but elsewhere, including the Damascus suburbs, in attacks that had killed 100 to 150 people.

In June, American officials said they believed that Mr. Assad's forces had used chemical weapons "on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year," though that has not led to a drastic public change in American involvement in the war.

Mr Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to Mr Obama, said the US intelligence community believed the "Assad regime has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against the opposition multiple times over the last year".

The US intelligence community believed Syrian government forces had used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against the opposition on several occasions in the past year, said Mr Rhodes, adding that he estimated as many as 150 people had died in the attacks.