Sentence examples for weaponised by from inspiring English sources

It seems that anything and everything is being "weaponised" by the Kremlin.

It shows how patents covering the look and feel of devices are increasingly being "weaponised" by their holders.

Last August, after some bozo at a Sainsbury's moved the kosher items to a different fridge to spare them becoming weaponised by anti-Israel demonstrators, Danny Finkelstein wrote in The Times about feeling nervous for the first time in his life.

Mr Neil joked that Nick Robinson had been "weaponised", as the BBC political editor tweeted from his sick bed as he was again quoted at PMQs as the source of the use of the word "weaponised" by Labour over the NHS.

Under neoliberalism, the economy isn't meant to deliver prosperity: the market is a disciplinary tool, weaponised by the state to delivery conformity among the citizenry.

Really glad we've taken back control from Brussels and given it to a sector of society whose prejudices can be readily weaponised by a political and capitalist class hell bent on blaming all the misery on anyone but themselves.

Long-haul operators have weaponised discomfort by turning the surcharge into an art-form, offering everything from speedy boarding to extra leg-room, all at a price.

Physicians for Human Rights said the authorities had weaponised tear gas canisters by firing them directly at protesters' heads and upper bodies, resulting in dozens of deaths and horrific injuries.

Tracking Jedburgh down to a remote country house, Craven learns that the American has weaponised the remaining plutonium by wrapping it around a plastic explosive core, it can be detonated even at the bottom of a loch by shooting it with a plutonium bullet.

These conversations are tricky to have, not least because they can be subtly weaponised against marginalised communities and scapegoated by conservatives looking to react in disgust to the "underworld" of gay sex.

Stereotypes are also relied on frequently by interviewers, and spontaneous pop quizzes can be weaponised against interviewees.