Sentence examples for surrender of weapons from inspiring English sources

The cease-fire announcement failed to mention a surrender of weapons, a key demand from the Spanish government.

He said the expectation that there would be some surrender of weapons by now was "completely unambiguous" and that the failure was "deeply disappointing".

Advocates for domestic violence victims counter that the most dangerous moment is when such orders are first issued, and that the surrender of weapons at this stage may be only temporary.

The government has had to extend its deadline for the surrender of weapons, because it needs more time to deliver the tools, oxen and small loans it has promised to those who have already handed in their guns.

An announcement is due this month from a disarmament commission in Belfast on whether there has been any progress in the long-awaited beginning to the surrender of weapons by the Irish Republican Army.

In fact, Gaddafi took risks from 2003 when he helped negotiate the surrender of weapons of mass destruction that led to Libya's opening to the west, then helped free the four Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor being held on bogus charges of infecting children with Aids (in Benghazi), and played a key role in negotiating the Lockerbie settlement.

Last January, ETA also issued a statement calling for a permanent cease-fire – an offer that was deemed insufficient by the government because it did not include any surrendering of weapons.

He did not say how that could be done, or when, but he promised that the insurgents would not be offered any deal that did not include the surrendering of weapons.

We want the world to see that Ukraine's peaceful surrender of nuclear weapons has earned it access to conventional weapons when it truly needs them to defend its borders.

The Irish government's plea to republicans was stark: a firm timetable for scrapping weapons, or lose your political gains.Yet anything short of the actual surrender of some weapons might now be too little to keep the process going.

A strong bipartisan vote for the pending resolution will strengthen the president's hand in his efforts to get the international community to step up to the plate and deal effectively with the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and give the diplomats one last chance to secure Saddam Hussein's final unconditional surrender of those weapons as he pledged in 1991.