Example sentences of "weapons [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Union acted immediately on Aug. 2 to suspend weapons shipments to Iraq , to which it had historically been the principal arms supplier . |
| 2 | The request followed a fierce denunciation by President Saddam Hussein who , on Oct. 5 , had compared UN weapons inspectors to " stray dogs " intent on provoking Iraq to submit to " America and it wicked allies " . |
| 3 | A three-judge panel of the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Mordechai Vanunu , a former technician who revealed secrets about Israel 's nuclear weapons programme to the British Sunday Times in 1986 , upholding his 1988 conviction for treason and espionage and 18-year prison sentence [ see pp. 34773-74 ; 35922 ] . |
| 4 | Contemporary attempts by the military in liberal democracies to see itself as professionalized , like similar movements among police forces , may be explained by the military 's desire , on the one hand , to avoid attacks on its competence or political attitudes and , on the other , to provide a basis from which to claim superiority for its expert views on policy matters from weapons procurement to military strategy . |
| 5 | A United States-Soviet agreement discontinuing " weapons deliveries to all Afghan sides " by Jan. 1 , 1992 , was announced in Moscow on Sept. 13 by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Boris Pankin , and the US Secretary of State , James Baker . |
| 6 | The United States and the former Soviet Union formally ended weapons deliveries to the rival Afghan factions on Jan. 1 , in accordance with a US-Soviet agreement signed in September 1991 [ see pp. 38437-38 ] . |
| 7 | Lady Thatcher was in charge while the policy of selling weapons equipment to Saddam was changed . |
| 8 | Negotiators from the two countries agreed in Geneva , at the end of the 15th round of bilateral talks which closed on April 26 , to cut their chemical weapons stocks to 5,000 tonnes each , and in June a summit accord between them formally endorsed a ban on the production of chemical weapons [ see p. 37518 ] . |
| 9 | It acknowledged that all Noricum 's weapons sales to Argentina , Brazil , Bulgaria , Jordan , Libya , Poland and Thailand , had been means of providing Iran and Iraq with arms and could have been prevented , particularly if Gratz had had the destination certificates examined . |
| 10 | The attempt to impose stricter limits on arms exports followed criticism at the time of the Gulf War of German weapons sales to Iraq over a long period [ see pp. 37639 ; 37471 ; 36498 ] . |
| 11 | Senior officials representing the five permanent members of the UN Security Council agreed in London on Oct. 17-18 to avoid selling weapons likely to worsen international conflict and to exchange information on conventional weapons sales to the Middle East [ see also pp. 38365-66 ] . |
| 12 | Saudi Arabia remained the only Arab state without diplomatic relations with China , but China had been a weapons supplier to Saudi Arabia since 1985 ; in addition the move was expected to open new links between Saudi Arabia and the Moslem minority in China . |
| 13 | The pace of the talks was slowed by the January 1989 change-over in the US administration ( see pp. 36391-92 ) and by fundamental differences on weapons systems to be included in a treaty as well as on numerical sub-limits on categories of missiles . |
| 14 | The Tory government contributed to proliferation when it permitted the supply of nuclear weapons material to Saddam Hussein . |
| 15 | In a written statement Bush claimed that the legislation , which was aimed partly at the sale of chemical weapons technology to Iraq , had been vetoed because it " would severely constrain presidential authority in carrying out foreign policy " . |
| 16 | Measures to tighten the illegal transfer of weapons technology to countries such as Iraq were announced on Jan. 29 . |