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How to use the word BOMBS in a Sentence? Page #7

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We haven't had any bombs on any of our planes for that reason. Obviously you don't want to relax the surveillance that we have.

Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You know, our aviators are conducting combat air patrols, I mean, that's the name of the mission, combat air patrol. So, of course it's combat, you know, they are conducting combat -- when you're a pilot and you strike an enemy target with thousands of pounds of bombs, that's aerial combat.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The planes strike with cluster bombs. After the explosions, when you come back to the area, there are cluster bombs left over an area of maybe 100 square meters.

Mohammed Musa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are some in our party who think the best approach is throwing bombs. The problem with bomb-throwing so far is that most of the bombs have landed on our own team. That doesn't help.

Mitt Romney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The bombs hit and then we heard the plane circle round, there was a pause and then more bombs hit ... When I made it out from the office, the main hospital building was engulfed in flames.

Heman Nagarathnam

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are both in the position, in exchange perhaps for something that we might do, they might decide to keep Assad from dropping barrel bombs.

State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Security Cabinet unanimously adopted a series of measures within the framework of our fight against stone throwers, petrol bombs and flares.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Doubling down on a regime that gases its people, that barrel bombs its people, that tortures people who it arrests simply for protesting and for claiming their rights -- that's just not going to work.

Samantha Power

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Former secretary of state George Shultz, reflecting on forty years of United States foreign policy from 1970 to the present, said, “When I think about all the money we spent on bombs and munitions, and our failures in Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan and other places around the world . . . Instead of advancing our agenda using force, we should have instead built schools and hospitals in these countries, improving the lives of their children. By now, those children would have grown into positions of influence, and they would be grateful to us instead of hating us.” Excerpt From: Daniel J. Levitin. “The Organized Scienceof Mind

George Shultz

added by anonymous
8 years ago

First we had to leave here because of war. Now we are coming back to war and bombs.

Raja Shafqat Khan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Attacks on civilian areas with aerial indiscriminate bombs, such as vacuum bombs, are prohibited under international law, hitting crowded civilian markets killing almost one hundred of its own citizens by a government is unacceptable in any circumstances.

De Mistura

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When they're using missiles that are shot from airplanes, it's a little bit different than these barrel bombs that just fall out of the sky, it's completely contrary to international law.

Sylvain Groulx

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Coal waste facilities are ticking time bombs if they are not properly constructed to withstand large rainfall events, there have not been sufficient efforts to protect surrounding communities.

Donna Lisenby of Waterkeeper Alliance

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He's trying to run for president, so his target audience is people who are frustrated with Washington. He's got a safe seat so he doesn't have to answer to anybody. There is no downside to him for throwing bombs at Senate leadership and that's got to be very frustrating for Sen. McConnell and others in the Republican leadership.

John Ullyot

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If there is one person who is responsible for all these terrorist crimes and humanitarian tragedies in Syria, it is Assad's approach, using chemical weapons, barrel bombs against civilians.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If you are a boy, they will brainwash you, strap bombs to your body and blow you up, if you are a girl, they will enslave and abuse you.

Mohammed Shafiq

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Otherwise, this ever deepening, man-made and totally avoidable humanitarian crisis will drain the country of the few resources it has and push people to the edge, without urgent action, shortages could kill more people than bullets or bombs.

Yemen Philippe Clerc

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I heard a blast and saw fire coming from Dolphin Square. I ran to the place and saw vehicles carrying bodies and wounded covered with blood. They were innocent people playing a ring game; they were not making bombs.

Haj Thamir Ahmed

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The bombs killed 10 of our members and three other persons nearby, we have commenced treatment of the 45 people who were injured from the blast.

Umar Zannah

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If Iran is demolishing houses, killing people, burning the people alive, and the international community is silent, if Bashar Assad is dropping these barrel bombs on the houses of the civilians, killing randomly, and the international dirty community is silent, of course the people will wait for Islamic State.

Sunni Islamists

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The members of the Security Council expressed their deep concern at the continued high level of violence in Syria and condemned all violence directed against civilians and civilian infrastructure, including medical facilities, they expressed outrage at all attacks against civilians, as well as indiscriminate attacks, including those involving shelling and aerial bombardment, such as the use of barrel bombs, which have reportedly been extensively used in recent days in Aleppo.

The Security Council

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was a post on social media to bombs on target in less than 24 hours, incredible work when you think about.

Hawk Carlisle

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The use of barrel bombs must stop, all evidence shows that the overwhelming majority of the civilian victims in the Syrian conflict have been caused by the use of such indiscriminate aerial weapons.

Syria Staffan de Mistura

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There were three roadside bombs that took out two Humvees and killed five of us. Then they came at us with the bulldozers rigged with explosives.

Ramadi Al-Yassiri

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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