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How to use the word disarming in a Sentence?

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We are not disarming ourselves against North Korea, but we are not closing the dialogue channel with North Korea … as long as North Korea is abstaining from their very strong nuclear ambitions.

President Yoon Suk Yeol

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The lake’s ecosystem is not only on the edge of collapse. It is collapsing, it’s honestly jaw-dropping and totally disarming to see how much of the lake is gone. The lake is mostly lakebed right now.

Benjamin Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Republicans packed the court when Mitch McConnell held Merrick Garland’s seat open nearly a year before an election, then confirmed Amy Coney Barrett days before the next election. Disarming the Court’s radical right-wing majority would correct this injustice.

Mondaire Jones

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant of the people... The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to the people, such that its repeal would legitimately confer upon government the powers otherwise proscribed. The Bill of Rights is the list of the fundamental, inalienable rights, endowed in man by his Creator, that define what it means to be a free and independent people, the rights which must exist to ensure that government governs only with the consent of the people.

Jeffrey R. Snyder

added by Normando
4 years ago

Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people.

Jeffrey R. Snyder

added by Normando
4 years ago

Throughout my childhood I was also facing another reality - that there were men out there who wanted to hurt me, some even went to the extreme of claiming they were priests and other disarming occupations to gain trust and easy access backstage, but clearly their intentions weren't so pure.

Jackie Evancho

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This actually happened about two weeks ago, i just couldn't resist her disarming smile and her little arms reaching out to me. So I asked her mother if I could pick her up.

Bruce Johnson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We do not have a problem with the directive as a whole, but we will want to rework it so it does not amount to disarming Czech citizens.

Czech Interior Minister Josef Chovanec

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There is kind of a simplicity in the way Chet plays that is disarming, my respect for it really grew as I studied, kind of went down the rabbit hole studying his influences .... There was such an unbelievable simplicity to him that the more you get into it the harder you realize it is to do.

Actor Ethan Hawke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He was very good with audiences that weren't predisposed to like him, he was incredibly disarming and charming in his own way.

Paul Clement

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As Wisconsin legislators, we are constantly being challenged by some of the leaders in our larger communities to stop the violence, and I do not believe that disarming a certain segment of law-abiding citizens, our college students, leads to less violence. I believe, instead, it is providing criminals and thugs an easy target to victimize.

Jesse Kremer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

By unilaterally disarming and shutting down the Export-Import Bank, it creates a market advantage for our competitors from (countries like) China, Germany and Japan.

Commerce Bruce Andrews

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I told him first two things; we are all concerned about climate change and the next sentence I said is, we are most concerned about the poorest three billion who had the least to do with this and are going to suffer the worst consequences, the Pope gave me a disarming smile, and then they said, the Holy Father wants to know what he can do about it. So I told him, 'In your speeches if you can please include us people to be better stewards of the planet.'.

Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It strikes me as ironic, at a time when risks are escalating, when we face kind of lone wolf terrorists here in the United States, that we are talking about unilaterally disarming, in effect, in terms of our intelligence capability.

Angus King

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The problem is the people who need guns the most and benefit the most from owning gun, poor individuals in high crime areas, are priced out of the market, who do they think they are disarming as a result of the law ? It is minorities in poor crime areas, not some wealthy guy who can afford to purchase the firearms at a higher cost.

John Lott

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

Sarah Brady

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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