Sentence examples for volume of weapons from inspiring English sources

He said the volume of weapons coming from Iran was the highest in years.

The sheer volume of weapons in the hands of civilians -- everything from rifles and grenades to mines and rocket-propelled grenade-launchers abandoned by the Iraqi Army -- has surprised the country's new American administrators.

In June, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said the volume of weapons reaching the Taliban from Iran made it "difficult to believe" that the shipments were "taking place without the knowledge of the Iranian government".

Worse, 11 districts in Indiana were completely suspended from the program because of the high volume of weapons they lost.

In addition to the sheer volume of weapons that flowed into Iraq after the US invasion, Amnesty also cited the American-led coalition's choice to disband Iraq's 400,000-strong army, meaning "tens of thousands of individuals returned home or went into hiding with their weapons".

While Israel has conceded that in the summer and fall of 1985 it shipped U.S.-made weapons from its own stockpiles to Iran, officials say that Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin balked at the arrangement late last year when the volume of weapons grew far beyond what he considered safe to release from Israeli stocks.

"The traffickers are able to access a high volume of assault weapons, sniper rifles, armour-piercing handguns.

The reserve would control Iraq's ability to buy food, medicine and other essentials commensurate with the speed and volume of certified weapons destruction by the Iraqi authorities.

For those tracking the volume of nuclear weapons, the American nuclear stockpile peaked in volume in 1966 and has been dramatically reduced since then.

Lt. William T. Kallop wrote in a praise-filled memo that the incident on Nov. 19, 2005, was part of a complex insurgent ambush that included a powerful roadside bomb followed by a high volume of automatic-weapons fire from several houses in the neighborhood.

"When you look at the volumes [of weapons, people and oil] that are transiting going into Turkey, it's inevitable that there is some collusion from customs and military, and my impression is that its individuals benefiting or profiting, and a sort of passive attitude from the institutions that lets it happen," she said.