That made it politically unacceptable to launch an offensive that would kill young soldiers and family men.

India does possess the scientific capability and infrastructure to launch such an offensive programme, but has chosen not to do so.

The Syrians might be tempted to launch an offensive against Israel with the objective of breaking the deadlock over the future of the Golan Heights.

At a lower level, too, China has unleashed an impressive charm offensive.

It was an important moment in China s evolution from a defensive to an offensive player on the international scene.

The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty represents an important contribution to the implementation of article VI.

Israel s Missing Peace Offensive

Her husband is in Belgium getting treatment for an injury he received in an earlier offensive by Israeli forces in Gaza.

She's planning to launch an organization with an Iranian partner called Peace Through Arab Iranian Cultural Understanding.

The Provisional Government opened an offensive against the Central Powers on 1 July but it soon collapsed.

There is no clear evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, that directly points toward an offensive biological weapon programme.

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Peace, Not a Peace Offensive

Hamas s offensive is not an attempt to draw Israel into a costly invasion that might shake its regime.

These things would drop down from above all through the weekend of rocket launch after rocket launch after rocket launch.

Although he was willing to compromise with the Turks, as he showed in the London talks in early 1921, in order to step up pressure on the Kemalist Turks, he agreed to the launch of the Greek offensive of March 1921.

The reality, of course, is that NATO is as much of an offensive threat to Russia as Switzerland is.

The Limits of China s Charm Offensive

Its one positive effect was to launch an effort to reform the international monetary system.

In an attempt to prevent further naval raids, the IJN launched an offensive in the Pacific Ocean which ended in defeat during the Battle of Midway.

This offensive, known as Unternehmen Nordwind (Operation North Wind), was the last major German offensive of the war on the Western Front.

According to post launch analysis of the launch vehicle, debris from the third stage fell as far as 4,000 kilometers from the launch pad.

After fighting a major Soviet offensive in June July 1944 to a standstill, Finland reached an armistice with the Soviet Union.

Khrunichev subsequently became a successful launch service provider on the international space launch market.

An update in 1983 and the launch of an all new model in 1989 strengthened its position in the small car market.

Indeed, nor would such an offensive have eradicated Hezbollah, because it is a political movement in arms, and not just an army or a band of gunmen.

Najar said The Islamic Republic of Iran has never aimed to launch an attack on any country.

At the same time, Egypt launches another offensive.

Ghanem faces 18 months in prison for an unpublished caricature of Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika that was deemed offensive by the authorities.

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The plan was to launch it with the R 7, an intercontinental ballistic missile in development since 1954.

It seemed an odd and to many offensive transition from King s great plea for civil rights to Palin s sentimental clichés about the military.

Whether an editor publishes cartoons offensive to believers in Muhammad (or Christ, for that matter) is a matter of judgment, almost of taste.

All day, netizens pushed for removing the offensive game.

Obama was recently advised by David Broder, a long time Washington Post columnist, to launch an attack on Iran.

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Launch of the 1540 Committee

It would seem sensible to distinguish between offensive and defensive weapon capabilities, but again, this is not an issue on which all nations agree.

In London, Prime Minister David Cameron is on the offensive.

For the next six years, Iran was on the offensive.

Given that an Israeli offensive would need to be coordinated with the US, while an American assault would not require Israeli military support, Iran would consider both to be American attacks.

It has not been possible to conclude whether Israel currently maintains an offensive biological weapons program it is speculated that Israel retains an active ability to produce and disseminate biological weapons.

The military s recent offensive reflects this, relying on air strikes that imperiled civilians rather than a ground offensive that would have been more precise in achieving its objectives.

Now is the moment to launch an analogous effort to reform and rationalize the political process that produces fiscal policy.

In June 2005, justice ministers and interior ministers from the G8 countries agreed to launch an international database on pedophiles.