Sentence examples for weapons supplier from inspiring English sources

His chief patron and weapons supplier, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, was overthrown and killed.

That's why the Merchant of Death found a Bulgarian weapons supplier — based on the offshore haven of Gibraltar.

China also emerged in 1999 as a major weapons supplier, reaching agreements to sell $1.9 billion worth of weapons.

The Bay State's colorful Edward Atkinson — variously a prominent abolitionist, cotton mill industry leader and weapons supplier to John Brown — persuaded Lincoln to liberalize between-the-lines trading.

It was unclear whether the changes would be enough to persuade Russia, Syria's ally and its major weapons supplier, to back the resolution.

It is Myanmar's chief defender in international forums, its major weapons supplier, its largest foreign investor and a crucial backer of its ruling military junta.

Egypt and China served as weapons suppliers while Saudi Arabia was the guardian of Muslim orthodoxy.

Even with the decline in sales and deliveries, "developing nations continue to be the primary focus of foreign arms sales activity by weapons suppliers," the report states.

The two countries also share the experience of running big, expensive, religious, materialistic and messy democracies in which central governments are constrained by powerful states.America is now one of India's biggest weapons suppliers.

In the highly competitive global arms market, nations vie for both profit and political influence through weapons sales, in particular to developing nations, which remain "the primary focus of foreign arms sales activity by weapons suppliers," according to the study.

"Nonetheless, the developing world continues to be the primary focus of foreign arms sales activity by conventional weapons suppliers," Richard F. Grimmett, a specialist in national defense at the research service, wrote in his introduction to the study.