Example sentences of "[adj] arms race " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most interesting examples of this concerns the electronic arms race , as shown in the brain sizes of fossil animals . |
| 2 | When selected genes in one species provide the environment in which genes in another species are selected , the result is often an evolutionary arms race . |
| 3 | The key comparison here involves the areas of sympatry , which allows us to catch a glimpse of the dynamics of evolution and to test the view that cuckoos and hosts are engaged in a coevolutionary arms race , with cuckoos being one step ahead in areas of recent sympatry . |
| 4 | It is obvious , when you come to think about it , that my picture of an ever-advancing arms race was too simple in at least one respect . |
| 5 | Already the Americans are working on improved versions of the original cruise missiles , and this continuous East-West jockeying for supremacy looks like developing into a full-blooded arms race . |
| 6 | From my present point of view the question of whether the manufacturers on opposite sides of a human arms race are enemies of each other or identical with each other is irrelevant , and interestingly so . |
| 7 | In the case of an asymmetric arms race , between a lineage of weapons and the specific antidotes to those weapons , it is the one-to-one correspondences that , over the successive ‘ generations ’ , lead to ever greater sophistication and complexity . |
| 8 | Consider their explanations of the US-Soviet arms race . |
| 9 | However , the most important question is whether the ‘ mutual paranoia ’ theme has any basic plausibility in the context of the current arms race . |
| 10 | The electronic and acoustic weapons systems of bats , which we discussed in Chapter 2 , have all the finely tuned sophistication that we expect from the end-products of a long arms race . |
| 11 | In the case of a biological arms race , on the other hand , we can usually see only the end-products . |
| 12 | Halt the nuclear arms race , for one thing ; stop the spread of nuclear weapons , for another . |
| 13 | A nuclear arms race is a good recipe for national bankruptcy but it is very profitable for those who design and manufacture the weapons . |
| 14 | The 18 major contributions are themselves fairly impressive , I particularly liked Francesco Calogero 's analysis of the dynamics of the nuclear arms race and John Ziman 's discussion of the basic principles involved in talking about social responsibility among scientists . |
| 15 | The nuclear arms race , and East-West conflict , is seen as inevitable given that human nature is what it is ( namely competitive , aggressive , and combative ) and the consequent pessimism shared by a large proportion of Western Europe 's population concerning the possibility of nuclear war is again expressed in such terms . |
| 16 | Despite the significance of the nuclear arms race , the mutual hostility and rivalry that developed between the superpowers ( the Soviet Union and the United States ) and their allies was not primarily a military conflict , but was founded on the mutual incompatibility of socialist and capitalist economic systems . |
| 17 | Throughout the Italo-Abyssinian conflict of this period , Nizan forcefully argued the need for collective security , on the one hand , by voicing his implacable opposition to the colonial ambitions of Mussolini , and on the other , by focusing attention on the highly dubious diplomatic manoeuvres of the British and French governments , the more reactionary elements of which were seeking to use the conflict as a " pretext for a new imperialist arms race " . |
| 18 | This threat derives from the way in which these interests are able to force military expenditure higher than is necessary to counter the threat which exists , generate a wasteful arms race and distort American foreign policy goals . |
| 19 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |
| 20 | But there is no detailed , one-to-one correspondence between the designs in such a symmetric arms race , no ‘ meshing ’ or ‘ interlocking ’ of design details as there is in an asymmetric arms race such as that between missile and missile-jamming device . |
| 21 | A test ban that could not inspire confidence would undermine stability and might even provoke a new arms race . |
| 22 | Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction , and then a new arms race may begin back at square one . |
| 23 | And if you remember I said that , because of its concern for security , the state creates a capacity for violence in the world of states , its , its environment and since this is er erm a characteristic of all states , however large or small the resources , they all create this capacity , they all have a defence policy er there is a consequent competition and this competition , far from resolving the problem of security , in fact exacerbates it , it makes it worse , and so states find themselves competing at different levels er competing particularly in the creation of military capabilities and the consequence of this is a more or less sustained and permanent arms race which frequently er produces armed struggles and war . |