Sentence examples for vast quantity of weapons from inspiring English sources

"Clearly post the Balkans breakup, there were a vast quantity of weapons that were then taken by, in the main, organised criminals and were then sold to the highest bidder," says Charlie Edwards, who is director of national security and resilience studies at the Royal United Services Institute and previously worked on security and counter-terrorism at the Home Office.

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

The Bush administration offered two reasons to wage unilateral war in Iraq -- Saddam Hussein was stockpiling vast quantities of weapons, and efforts to contain him through sanctions and inspections were hopeless.

Rival gangs frequently do battle and the vast quantities of weapons they bring in have also increased violence unrelated to the drug trade: around 70 bus drivers have been killed in robberies this year.

The North Vietnamese, however, claimed to have killed about 300 American soldiers and captured 104 enemy troops, including two American advisors, as well as capturing vast quantities of weapons and ammunition that were left behind.

In Ajdabia, meanwhile, Peter Bouckaert, a Human Rights Watch representative, said that he came across a stockpile of Russian SA-7 portable heat-seeking anti-aircraft missiles, as well as a vast quantity of other weapons and munitions, stored in a number of ill-guarded warehouses now in rebel hands).

The Original Treaty During the cold war, both the United States and the Soviet Union produced vast quantities of germ weapons, enough to kill everyone on earth.

Some militants appeared to have fled before the government counter-offensive, taking vast quantities of seized weapons and vehicles with them to Chardara district, according to one resident.

The revolution against Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, aided by Mr Sarkozy and David Cameron, released vast quantities of modern weapons from the Libya state arsenal into the Sahara.

Haideri was apparently a source for Secretary of State Colin Powell's claim, in his presentation to the United Nations Security Council on February 5th, that the United States had "firsthand descriptions" of mobile factories capable of producing vast quantities of biological weapons.

With the seizure of Mosul on June 10th, where the Iraqi army was routed, IS acquired a huge stockpile of American-supplied weapons: armoured vehicles, artillery, anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, fleets of Humvees and a vast quantity of ammunition.