Example sentences of "a [adj] arms race " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the case of a biological arms race , on the other hand , we can usually see only the end-products . |
| 6 | A nuclear arms race is a good recipe for national bankruptcy but it is very profitable for those who design and manufacture the weapons . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A test ban that could not inspire confidence would undermine stability and might even provoke a new arms race . |
| 11 | Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction , and then a new arms race may begin back at square one . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |