Sentence examples for was decommissioning from inspiring English sources

Three people were charged with, and subsequently convicted of, gun-running in Florida; three republicans, suspected of being IRA members, were arrested in Colombia and charged with training guerrillas in bomb-making techniques.All of this would have mattered less had unionists been convinced that the IRA really was decommissioning its weapons.

"There has not been decommissioning.

"There has to be decommissioning," Mr. Blair said, using the term for disarmament in the peace accord.

"What we need to see is decommissioning beginning," Mr. Trimble said, using the local phrase for disarmament.

Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, said this week that there can be a cabinet of ministers only if Sinn Fein is included and that Sinn Fein cannot be included unless there is decommissioning.

Mr. Heacock said that the experience of another company, Energy Solutions, which is decommissioning Commonwealth Edison's old Zion reactors north of Chicago, was that it might be cheaper to do the job in the next decade or so.

Since 1992 countries around the world have been decommissioning their Morse equipment with similar (if less poetic) sign-offs, as the world's shipping switches over to a new satellite-based arrangement, the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System.

WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency announced on Thursday that it will no longer use contractors to conduct interrogations, and that it is decommissioning the secret overseas sites where for years it held high-level Al Qaeda prisoners.

"We thought our business would be decommissioning plants-and then no business," says Stephen Tritch, chief executive.

However, it is possible that the federal government may make some of the military bases it is decommissioning available as possible sites for future oil refineries.

The chemical's presence was picked up during routine environmental monitoring by Dounreay Site Restoration Limited, which is decommissioning the site.