Sentence examples for tons of stockpiled from inspiring English sources

They lived amid more than 100 tons of stockpiled junk and possessions, including stacks of telephone books, newspapers, tin cans and clocks.

That year, CITES allowed Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to sell 50 tons of stockpiled ivory to Japan, calling it a "one-time sale".

Recently, the US Government crushed six tons of stockpiled illegal ivory in Denver as a statement against poaching and wildlife trafficking.

Last year, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ruled that Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe could sell 108 tons of stockpiled ivory to approved Japanese and Chinese buyers.

"They told me, 'I don't feel like celebrating Christmas.' But I told them, 'We need to be celebrating Christmas more than ever before.' " Christmas brought its share of attacks with plenty of heavy ordnance, despite Mr. Hussein's arrest and American raids that have netted hundreds of tons of stockpiled weapons.

A ban enacted by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in 1990 was effective in toppling the ivory trade, The New York Times notes, but that ban only lasted until 1999 when Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia were permitted to sell 50 tons of stockpiled ivory to Japan.

Speaking at the end of a two-day visit to Mali on Friday, the French defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said that French forces had discovered tons of weapons stockpiled by fighters linked to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, many of them foreign, and that they had planned to use the country's north as a base for international attacks.

Russia also pulled out of another agreement with the United States on 3 October in which the two countries were working to eliminate 34 tons of plutonium stockpiled in both countries enough for about 17,000 bombs.

About 15,000 tons of food are stockpiled in Afghanistan, enough for about two weeks, he added.

A French intelligence report shortly after the Ghouta attacks in 2013 estimated that Syria had "several hundreds tons of sulfur mustard, stockpiled in its final form".

In October, the United Nations Children's Fund sent three tons of powdered milk, stockpiled here to treat severely malnourished children, to Uganda instead.