Sentence examples for weapons mainly from inspiring English sources

The Australian government collected and destroyed about 650,000 weapons, mainly rifles and shotguns, at a cost of about 500 million Australian dollars (about U.S.$355 million).

The Israelis said they hoped that Egypt would also be part of the effort to stop the flow of weapons mainly supplied by Iran.

Indeed, counting the $403 million appropriated last month, the Defense Department has $1.03 billion on hand to help dismantle and secure former Soviet nuclear weapons, mainly in Russia but also in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

For the past year or so, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have sponsored a structured effort, with U.S. and Turkish backing, to funnel weapons — mainly light armaments like rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and ammunition — to select rebel groups.

Iraq's government has lined up on the side of the Syrian government, allowing its territory to be a transit corridor for the supply of weapons — mainly from Iran — to the forces of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has threatened to use nuclear weapons mainly to uphold the NPT - it has almost exclusively threatened countries not in compliance with the treaty.

VEEV is also of biodefense importance; it has been developed as a biological weapon, mainly because it is highly infectious by aerosol transmission and can infect humans with a relatively low dose (2 ).

Nuclear weapons exist mainly to prevent their own use - exist, that is, for nuclear deterrence.

The missing and stolen weapons consisted mainly of handguns but also included rifles, shotguns and submachine guns.

The militias are said to use the weapons sparingly, mainly in response to attacks on Shia targets.

This week, Tornado jets have been deploying Brimstone missiles and Paveway bombs against vehicle and fixed weapons positions, mainly in support of Kurdish forces in the north west.