Example sentences for: disarmament

How can you use “disarmament” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Jonathan Schell's cover story--the longest article in The Nation 's history--updates his 1982 book The Fate of the Earth . The article's conclusion: We should push for "horizontal" disarmament (taking weapons off alert, partially dismantling them) rather than "vertical" disarmament (abolishing weapons altogether).

  • (One note: If I left the impression yesterday that Eleanor's pacifism extended to support for unilateral disarmament , I should be clear that--particularly as war approached--it decidedly did not.)

  • Bradley, more cautious by nature, has declined to take a pledge of unilateral disarmament.

  • Sinn Fein will appoint a delegate to a disarmament committee when the government convenes this Thursday, and Trimble has threatened to resign and pull his party out of the joint government if the IRA hasn't handed over some weapons by February.

  • The piece drew on the experience of Cyprus in the 1950s (or, at least, one rather skewed view of that experience) to argue against the disarmament of the KLA.


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