noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chemical weapons ban
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a global chemical weapons ban
a murder weapon (= the gun, knife etc used to murder someone )
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Have they found the murder weapon?
a propaganda weapon (= an event, situation etc that can be used for propaganda )
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Sporting success was an important propaganda weapon during the Cold War.
a weapons inspection (= to see what weapons someone has )
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The government has agreed to allow UN weapons inspections in the country.
an arms/weapons deal (= one which involves selling weapons )
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A number of recent arms deals have embarrassed the government.
an illegal weapon
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He was charged with carrying an illegal weapon.
chemical weapon
chemical weapons (= poisonous chemicals used as weapons )
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a global treaty banning chemical weapons
concealed weapon
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a concealed weapon
deploy forces/troops/weapons etc
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NATO’s decision to deploy cruise missiles
fire a gun/weapon/rifle etc (= make it shoot )
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the sound of a gun being fired
lethal weapon
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a lethal weapon
nuclear bomb/weapon/missile etc
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the threat of nuclear attack
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concern about the country’s nuclear weapons program
offensive weapon
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Jan was convicted of possessing an offensive weapon .
potent weapon
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A good company pension scheme remains a potent weapon for attracting staff.
strategic arms/weapons (= weapons designed to reach an enemy country from your own )
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strategic nuclear missiles
weapons inspector
weapons of mass destruction (= weapons intended to cause a lot of death and destruction )
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The country is believed to have the potential to develop weapons of mass destruction.
weapons of mass destruction
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
atomic
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When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945, he was no enthusiast of atomic weapons , but that programme proceeded.
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B-29s were known around the world as the bombers that carried atomic weapons .
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There is some residual radiation, indicating that atomic weapons were in use approximately five thousand years ago.
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In 1974 congressional committees began raising questions in public about the security and usefulness of the atomic weapons .
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Nowhere was this more evident than in the marked differences in the handling of collaboration in the atomic and conventional weapons fields.
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Under Eisenhower, the United States developed smaller atomic weapons that could be used tactically on the battlefield.
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They argued that the use of atomic weapons violated both conventional and customary international law.
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Furthermore, he saw incompatibility in Britain spending large sums on atomic weapons whilst accepting Marshall Aid.
automatic
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Its automatic weapons chatter nightly, and mortars crump in reply.
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Pepper spray is not automatic weapons fire.
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At present only automatic weapons are covered.
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At that point, small arms and automatic weapons opened up.
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The Renault was surrounded by guns, some of them automatic weapons .
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One guy had a canteen on his hip which was shot off; it was automatic weapons .
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Figures are now running in front of us, shots are fired from automatic weapons , the running figures fall down.
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They wore black boots, green military fatigues, had their faces covered with black ski masks and carried automatic weapons .
biological
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The accord also authorized the creation of a mechanism to monitor the observance of conventions banning biological weapons .
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He has been especially dodgy about agreements meant to prevent him from developing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons .
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Mitterrand suggested extending Bush's measures to chemical and biological as well as conventional weapons and applying the plan globally.
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A second biological weapons inspection team, which arrived on Sept. 20, was expected to complete its mission in early October.
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Experts say chemical, biological and nuclear weapons are available as never before.
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Some are trying to obtain nuclear, biological and chemical weapons .
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We tend to focus on nuclear but chemical and biological weapons , while not as devastating, would be plenty bad.
chemical
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The thought of a beleaguered Ceausescu in possession of chemical weapons is a chilling one.
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Many of its chemical weapons are kept in aging and unsafe facilities.
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The completion of multilateral negotiations on the abolition of chemical weapons will be pursued.
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Resolution 44/115 on chemical weapons was adopted without a vote.
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More than a score of nations now seeks or possesses chemical weapons .
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If we refuse to ratify, some governments will use our refusal as an excuse to keep their chemical weapons .
conventional
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With conventional weapons , the destruction is not so drastic, far more controlled, and more accurate and economical.
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It was battle scarred, but mountains are not vulnerable to conventional weapons .
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Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms.
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Nowhere was this more evident than in the marked differences in the handling of collaboration in the atomic and conventional weapons fields.
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Mitterrand suggested extending Bush's measures to chemical and biological as well as conventional weapons and applying the plan globally.
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Propose new disarmament initiatives covering all categories of conventional and nuclear weapons .
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It was believed that the Soviets already had superiority in conventional armies and weapons .
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Development studies During the last decade, the international trade in conventional weapons has almost doubled in volume every five years.
deadly
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The trebuchet; a twelfth-century example of this deadly weapon , capable of enormous destruction as a siege engine.
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Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
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My hands and feet are registered with the local constabulary as deadly weapons .
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He was booked into the Vista jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer.
heavy
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But this week's guerrillas numbered more than 1,000, some of them with heavy weapons .
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There were no signs that heavy weapons or aircraft had been brought to the area, and little fortification was visible.
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Intense shooting and the boom of heavy weapons erupted in the capital, Lome, before dawn.
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It has monitored the movement of heavy weapons into storage areas and formerly warring troops into barracks.
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And it will plan how to monitor heavy weapons if a ceasefire takes hold.
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Once in Beirut, all heavy weapons would be collected from the militias.
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More than the heavy weapons , this banal accoutrement of a rudimentary accountancy scared me shitless.
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She had been hit violently on the back of the head with a heavy weapon .
lethal
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Bearing in mind that the knife is a lethal weapon , what happens if you get it wrong?
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Roughly half of child killers used a gun, while 16 percent used their own hands and feet as lethal weapons .
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As I couldn't take Lisabeth with me, it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon .
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Being in charge of a lethal weapon , so to speak.
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Sentencing Harris, Lord Sutherland, told him that attempted murders involving such lethal weapons were becoming far too prevalent.
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Atkinson has a lethal weapon in Dean Saunders - recruited from Liverpool - who is aiming to wreck United's dream.
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For statistics alone are unlikely to stop a 17-year-old putting his foot down in a lethal weapon .
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But in the wrong hands they are as lethal a weapon as a gun.
new
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Development of all major new weapons programmes would nevertheless continue but over a longer time span.
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Carroll said the military is needlessly wasting money on new weapons and too many overseas commitments, such as peacekeeping in Bosnia.
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A new weapon had been discovered.
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Anyone who wins the use of a new weapon ought to have a chance to recognize its dangers.
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It would give a clear message: that the nuclear-weapon states have stopped developing new nuclear weapons .
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They intend to spend more on service pay as well as on new weapons and new weapons technology.
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More successful than any of these methods, however, looks to be a new biological weapon , a nematode.
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If you are lucky, you can get a new weapon .
nuclear
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Draw battlefield nuclear weapons back from the front line.
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Later some of the Bevanites, though not Mr Bevan himself, added opposition to nuclear weapons to their list of policies.
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In the ensuing years much larger nuclear weapons were developed.
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Distinctions between categories of nuclear weapons should therefore be discouraged.
offensive
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Paul Lowe, 27, and William Young, 21, both of Rochdale, were each charged with carrying offensive weapons .
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He appealed to Khrushchev to remove the offensive weapons under United Nations supervision.
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Two Haverhill men have been charged with threatening behaviour and possession of offensive weapons .
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Police had considered taking action against David as they said he was carrying an offensive weapon his bendy rubber truncheon.
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He was convicted of carrying an offensive weapon and got a 28-day suspended sentence and £200 fine.
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The commuter was prosecuted, found guilty of carrying an offensive weapon , and fined.
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Conventional troop cuts will be accompanied by a reorganization of units in charge of offensive nuclear weapons .
potent
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Then she realised that her other hand held a much more potent weapon .
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The Khans will tell you that many have now replaced the rifle with another potent weapon , the squash racquet.
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But a good company pension scheme remains a potent weapon when it comes to attracting and keeping staff.
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Control of an almost adult king was a potent political weapon .
powerful
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Fear is one of the Dark Lord's most powerful weapons yet some of his army are defeated by it.
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Procrastination or partial responses are powerful weapons .
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New powers to refuse wastes and revoke licences are potentially powerful weapons in controlling the movement and safe disposal of wastes.
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This was a very powerful and awesome weapon .
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They are powerful if unreliable weapons , and each one is a valuable artifact, encrusted with baroque decoration and intricate designs.
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Potentially the most powerful of support weapons were Air Force and Navy jets.
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Manipulation People who manipulate use guilt and blame-they are powerful weapons to get people to do something.
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It is an extraordinarily powerful political weapon .
secret
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His secret weapon has been a three-wood he first used last June.
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And Bannister, who weighs 22 stone and has size 17 feet, could be Cadle's secret weapon .
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Further, there was the frightening possibility of new secret weapons .
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So long as she stayed silent she had a secret weapon .
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Yet Drake had been aided by a secret weapon .
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But his real secret weapon is an amazing talent for simultaneously combining slide with fretted notes.
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The next day she carried her secret weapon to school in her satchel.
strategic
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I told him also that Britain's only strategic weapon would be the minimum deterrent constituted by Trident.
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But by 1990 the world was no longer bipolar, except in strategic nuclear weapons and delivery systems.
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The United States considers strategic weapons negotiations the most pressing issue to be sorted out at the summit.
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This meant that the world would be free of strategic nuclear weapons by the year 1996.
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The United States still had a substantial lead in strategic weapons .
tactical
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But these women also employed medical definitions of physical and mental weakness as an effective tactical weapon in the battle with men.
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The amount of uranium in the belt is about four billion tons, enough to make roughly a trillion tactical nuclear weapons .
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Beneath this umbrella of deterrence are tactical weapons .
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Shevardnadze also proposed a halt in nuclear testing and cuts in tactical nuclear weapons .
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Denis Healey was again in the forefront of the efforts to devise satisfactory guidelines for the use of tactical nuclear weapons .
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The possibility of using it as a tactical weapon against the king-duke was too valuable an asset to be abandoned.
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Your mission is to boldly go about the galaxy destroying the Klingon forces which possess many new tactical weapons and abilities.
■ NOUN
assault
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The manufacture and sale of nine types of foreign and domestic semi-automatic assault weapons would also be prohibited for three years.
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Manufacturers continue to glut communities with handguns, assault weapons and ammunition.
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But the ban helped drop the number of assault weapons traced to crimes to 3, 504&038;.
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I will veto any attempt to repeal the assault weapons ban or the Brady bill.
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You want to add more magazines to the assault weapons so they can spray and kill even more people.
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Dole said the assault weapons ban did not work, because many of the weapons were altered to make them legal.
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He still stands for repealing the assault weapons ban.
inspector
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The new chief weapons inspector , Hans Blix, may make a difference.
murder
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Hayes found the murder weapon , a flat iron with blood and Maria's hair upon it, in a cupboard.
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The murder weapon , a Kalashnikov free of fingerprints, was left at the scene in a plastic bag.
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I think this was the murder weapon .
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There may be some account of what happened to the murder weapon .
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After all, anybody who read the description of the murder weapon in the Saturday papers could have sent the knives.
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A murder weapon in that case was never recovered.
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My only direct experience with murder weapons was Cluedo, but even I knew enough not to mess with it.
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Nico and Molto had been clever enough not to search for the murder weapon , too.
system
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But each also has the capability of being built into defensive weapons systems .
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To put it mildly, this is great news for the companies that stand to make the weapons systems .
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When a contract for a weapon system is received, a project manager is appointed.
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Traditionally, ships and weapons systems are developed by different contractors with little coordination during the design phase.
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Many of the weapons systems that we use now are bigger than before and have longer ranges, and so on.
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There were certain additional restrictions upon the types of weapon systems that could be deployed within these limits.
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Yet it is not clear that this promise can be translated into any effective weapon systems .
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Using wholly incompatible weapons systems and riven by language difficulties, the troops lack the capacity to fight as coordinated units.
■ VERB
arm
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They ride fierce war boars and are armed with a hand weapon .
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On the other hand, to arm Anacreon with all weapons of warfare.
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This is particularly true for a defensive system based on comparatively small, independent units, armed with short-range weapons .
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Hand Gunners are highly effective warriors armed with primitive gunpowder weapons .
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Many locals keep weapons at home, ostensibly for hunting but mostly for show, while religious leaders need armed bodyguards.
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The women, armed with smuggled weapons , explosives and bottles of acid, were joined by male inmates.
ban
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The accord also authorized the creation of a mechanism to monitor the observance of conventions banning biological weapons .
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A decree in February banned the sale of weapons to countries involved in armed conflict.
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Next week he will appeal to the Senate to ratify a global treaty to ban chemical weapons .
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City and county government have the option to ban weapons on public property.
build
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But each also has the capability of being built into defensive weapons systems.
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Has there been an improvement in stopping smuggling and building weapons of mass destruction?
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It is true that a country does not need a nuclear power programme to be able to build a nuclear weapon .
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Then he took it a step further -- he built a medieval weapon .
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They began a crash program to modernize and strengthen their fleet and to build nuclear weapons with ICBMs to carry them.
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Malykh said Mayak was built to produce weapons for the former Soviet Union.
carry
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For these purposes they would also tend to wear the most heavily reinforced boots and might occasionally carry weapons of some kind.
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They wore black boots, green military fatigues, had their faces covered with black ski masks and carried automatic weapons .
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Paul Lowe, 27, and William Young, 21, both of Rochdale, were each charged with carrying offensive weapons .
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It always struck me that they had enough people to carry all the weapons .
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They wanted the Cossacks to be allowed to carry weapons to protect themselves.
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Police had considered taking action against David as they said he was carrying an offensive weapon his bendy rubber truncheon.
conceal
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In order to conceal weapons , secret pockets were sewn into the linings of coats.
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Six more states, including Texas, implemented laws on Jan. 1 that allow citizens to carry concealed weapons .
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A kindergartner gets caught with a butter knife in his school backpack and is expelled for carrying a concealed weapon .
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Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
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The 8 {-by 14-inch paper outlines an argument that the Arizona Constitution already guarantees the right to carry concealed weapons .
deploy
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Johnson has deployed two fearsome weapons: her connections and her charm.
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So the United States has no deployed chemical weapons today and will have none in the future.
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The president deployed the weapon with which he has calmed past discontents, saying he would announce his heir-apparent.
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They tell us that we should not manufacture and deploy nuclear weapons .
develop
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By these criteria, some high-tech weapons are cost-effective to develop , even if enemy weapons stagnate.
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Under Eisenhower, the United States developed smaller atomic weapons that could be used tactically on the battlefield.
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It would make it harder to develop new weapons , but not impossible.
fire
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He then fires the weapon , which automatically steers itself toward the target and dives on to its vulnerable upper parts.
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According to legend, anyone who ever fired the weapon died of a broken heart or cardiac arrest.
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For those sixty seconds you are not a legitimate target, nor can you fire your own weapon .
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The troops marched around him, firing their automatic weapons .
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As if in slow motion they both aimed and fired their weapons .
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Everyone around me seems to be firing their weapons .
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Figures are now running in front of us, shots are fired from automatic weapons , the running figures fall down.
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Mobs burned tyres in the streets, and the prudent stayed at home while soldiers drove around firing their weapons .
use
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And so we used the small weapons we had.
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As boys grow older, they readily turn to wrestling and combative play using make-believe weapons of war and violence.
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It's not the same plutonium as used in weapons and the nuclear industry.
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They left radioactive material in Moscow and said they were going to use that kind of weapon ....
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The huge horns are used both as a weapon and as a shield.
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Basil used his weapons with restraint and on legitimate targets.
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The soldiers escorting it used their weapons to help destroy the creatures.
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Linked to the machine by electrodes, he had learned the best way to use every weapon ever invented.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a double-edged sword/weapon
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But the potential financial boost is a double-edged sword.
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It's been said before that being well-known is a double-edged sword.
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That can be a double-edged sword, commercially and artistically.
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The competition rules must be regarded as a double-edged sword by businesses.
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This, however, rapidly proved a double-edged weapon.
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Throughout our history, judicial review has been a double-edged sword.
biological weapons/warfare/attack etc
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He knew then that the mystery of Titron was only partly explained by the secret biological warfare establishment.
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Regional conflicts - along with the proliferation of missiles and nuclear, chemical and biological weapons - present growing dangers.
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Schwarzkopf strongly defended his field commanders from allegations that they were careless about chemical and biological weapons.
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We tend to focus on nuclear but chemical and biological weapons, while not as devastating, would be plenty bad.
secret weapon
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And Bannister, who weighs 22 stone and has size 17 feet, could be Cadle's secret weapon.
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But his real secret weapon is an amazing talent for simultaneously combining slide with fretted notes.
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Further, there was the frightening possibility of new secret weapons.
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His secret weapon has been a three-wood he first used last June.
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So long as she stayed silent she had a secret weapon.
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The next day she carried her secret weapon to school in her satchel.
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Yet Drake had been aided by a secret weapon.
tactical weapon/missile
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Beneath this umbrella of deterrence are tactical weapons.
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But these women also employed medical definitions of physical and mental weakness as an effective tactical weapon in the battle with men.
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The possibility of using it as a tactical weapon against the king-duke was too valuable an asset to be abandoned.
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Your mission is to boldly go about the galaxy destroying the Klingon forces which possess many new tactical weapons and abilities.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a treaty to reduce the number of nuclear weapons
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Community rejection of gangs is a powerful weapon against them.
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He was arrested by police and charged with carrying an offensive weapon .
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Police are still looking for the murder weapon .
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Police have not yet found the murder weapon .
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The men were finally persuaded to come out and hand over their weapons to the police.
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The three men had blackened faces and were carrying weapons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During the early weeks of the 1968 Tet Offensive, the Duper was his weapon of choice.
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Everyone who looks upon it sees a different weapon .
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He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.
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No weapon was seen in the 12: 20 p.m. holdup.
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They wanted the Cossacks to be allowed to carry weapons to protect themselves.
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They weren't carrying weapons, so Agnes assumed they were politicians.
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We will find the same lack of weapons in Cretan art, more than 10, 000 years after the Palcolithic.
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Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons?