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weapon
noun
An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
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"I don't believe that any guerrilla is going to turn in his weapon only to go and die in a US jail," Santos said in March.
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If Miliband's advisors are prepared to describe his partner as a weapon to be deployed, they really need to take a look at themselves.
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The three options, Obama said, were to bomb the nuclear facilities and launch a third war in the Middle East, maintain the status quo and hope for the best, or seek "a robust and verifiable deal like this one that peacefully prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon".
"It's a good deal – a deal that meets our core objectives, including strict limitations on Iran's program and cutting off every pathway that Iran could take to develop a nuclear weapon".
"We want Iran to calculate what I think is a fair assessment: that if the United States extends a defence umbrella over the region, if we do even more to develop the military capacity of those [allies] in the Gulf, it is unlikely that Iran will be any stronger or safer because they won't be able to intimidate and dominate as they apparently believe they can once they have a nuclear weapon".
We should laugh at her. She's both absurd and sinister, and laughter is a powerful weapon.
Republicans failed in their latest attempt to wield the threat of a partial government shutdown as a weapon of protest against Barack Obama's immigration policies on Monday, with Democrats and the White House increasingly confident they have the upper-hand in the showdown.
Russia says it accepts US denials over supplying Stinger missiles to Syrian rebels but claimed it was co-ordinating weapon supplies and providing logistical support, RIA Novosti reports.
Campaigners are calling for an investigation after it was reported that the man who passed a gun to Duggan before he was killed by police in Tottenham was not arrested weeks earlier, despite evidence he was known to officers and had used the same weapon in another attack.
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