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Finland’s artillery forces are the largest and best-equipped in Western Europe, with some 1,500 artillery weapons, including 700 Howitzer guns, 700 heavy mortar, and 100 rocket launcher systems, the Finnish artillery has more artillery firepower than the combined militaries of Poland, Germany, Norway, and Sweden can currently muster. – The Wilson Center report	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What really gave Sherman an edge was that it was designed to be easy to produce. With 49,234 Shermans made versus 1,347 Tigers, quantity outranked quality. Today supportability trumps sheer firepower, protection and mobility. – Nicholas Drummond	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re going to get scrutinized, I ’m expecting that. We’re getting scrutinized for why we did n’t go in there, i know what the firepower [ the shooter ] had, based on what shells I saw, the holes in the wall in Situation Room next to his. I also know I had students that were around there that were n’t in the immediate threat besides the ones I know were in the immediate threat and the preservation of life around, everything around him, I felt was priority. – Chief Pete Arredondo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s an emergency right now, i ’m inside the building with this man. He has an AR-15. He shot a whole bunch of times … He’s in one room. I need a lot of firepower, I need this building surrounded, surrounded with as many AR-15s as possible. – Chief Pete Arredondo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Any military firepower directed at or from the facility would amount to playing with fire, with potentially catastrophic consequences. – Rafael Mariano Grossi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Adding offensive firepower and improving our power play were priorities this offseason, and Max certainly checks those boxes. – Don Waddell	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
They’re a good team over there. They’ve got a lot of firepower, we’ve got to improve and bring more to beat a team like that. – Timo Meier	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is firepower with a concerted effort. – Robert Yawger	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I honestly didn't feel we had the firepower in Austin, and I said this is what I have to do and now is the time. – Jasmine Crockett	Found on CNN 2 years ago
What we’re talking about here are magazines that are commonly possessed all throughout the country, are legal in 41 out of the 50 states, they are possessed for law-abiding purposes like self-defense and there’s no historical tradition in this country of having the sort of restrictions the state has in mind here of telling people there’s a certain amount of firepower or capacity that's appropriate for them to possess. – Erin Murphy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The uptick were seeing inchild homicides is related very much to the increase in firepower on the streets, the shooters are often quite young and I think its a fair bet that they havent gone through extensive training. – Richard Rosenfeld	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The U.S. and allied focus on long-range land-attack and anti-ship cruise missiles was the quickest way to rebuild long-range conventional firepower in the Western Pacific region. – Robert Haddick	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
There are market doubts whether the fund has the firepower (war chest) to buy into Asiana Airlines. – Bang Min-jin	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're talking about a nuclear agreement where we make less and they make less and maybe where we get rid of some of the tremendous firepower that we have right now. – Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're talking about a nuclear agreement where we make less and they make less and maybe even where we get rid of some of the tremendous firepower that we have right now. ... And China is frankly also -- we discussed the possibility of a three-way deal instead of a two-way deal. And China, I've already spoken to them. They very much would like to be a part of that deal. In fact, during the trade talks, we started talking about that. – President Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Will Careem would likely lean more toward an acquisition by Uber to protect value created, and avoid further losses once Uber has more firepower as a result of its IPO. – Khaldoon Tabaza	Found on CNN 5 years ago
They may not have as much firepower or credibility next go-round. – Ed Yardeni	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The purpose of the film was to try and use modern technology, not modern film. We can easily go out and shoot reconstructions and all that, but we didn't do that, we used strictly a hundred-year-old footage, but we used computer firepower to restore it to the maximum degree that we could. – Peter Jackson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
These officers went there unknowing the firepower this suspect had. ... They thought it was a random search warrant. – Florence County	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I just don't think Cleveland has the firepower to win shootuts, so it's going to have to be grind-it-out games where the tempo is controlled and to do that you have got to have smart, tough guys on the floor. – Jeff Van Gundy	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Developments in hypersonic propulsion wivolutionize rewarfare by providing the ability to strike targets more quickly, at greater distances, and with greater firepower, china is also developing increasingly sophisticated ballistic missile warheads and hypersonic glide vehicles in an attempt to counter ballistic missile defense systems. – Robert Ashley	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It is very important for us to gain more seats in Congress... then we will have enough firepower for pending structural reforms. – Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The BOJ is running out of monetary policy firepower, so it was not a surprise to see that there is no change to the policy this week, also, China's industrial output figures at the weekend showed contraction yet again and underscore the weakness in demand from the world's second largest economy. There is still a soft demand coupled with an excess supply story in the commodities spectrum. – Lorne Baring	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The BOJ is running out of monetary policy firepower so it was not a surprise to see that there is no change to the policy this week, also, China's industrial output figures at the weekend showed contraction yet again and underscore the weakness in demand from the world's second largest economy. There is still a soft demand coupled with (an) excess supply story in the commodities spectrum. – Lorne Baring	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Finland’s artillery forces are the largest and best-equipped in Western Europe, with some 1,500 artillery weapons, including 700 Howitzer guns, 700 heavy mortar, and 100 rocket launcher systems, the Finnish artillery has more artillery firepower than the combined militaries of Poland, Germany, Norway, and Sweden can currently muster.

– The Wilson Center report

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What really gave Sherman an edge was that it was designed to be easy to produce. With 49,234 Shermans made versus 1,347 Tigers, quantity outranked quality. Today supportability trumps sheer firepower, protection and mobility.

– Nicholas Drummond

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re going to get scrutinized, I ’m expecting that. We’re getting scrutinized for why we did n’t go in there, i know what the firepower [ the shooter ] had, based on what shells I saw, the holes in the wall in Situation Room next to his. I also know I had students that were around there that were n’t in the immediate threat besides the ones I know were in the immediate threat and the preservation of life around, everything around him, I felt was priority.

– Chief Pete Arredondo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s an emergency right now, i ’m inside the building with this man. He has an AR-15. He shot a whole bunch of times … He’s in one room. I need a lot of firepower, I need this building surrounded, surrounded with as many AR-15s as possible.

– Chief Pete Arredondo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Any military firepower directed at or from the facility would amount to playing with fire, with potentially catastrophic consequences.

– Rafael Mariano Grossi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Adding offensive firepower and improving our power play were priorities this offseason, and Max certainly checks those boxes.

– Don Waddell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They’re a good team over there. They’ve got a lot of firepower, we’ve got to improve and bring more to beat a team like that.

– Timo Meier

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is firepower with a concerted effort.

– Robert Yawger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I honestly didn't feel we had the firepower in Austin, and I said this is what I have to do and now is the time.

– Jasmine Crockett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What we’re talking about here are magazines that are commonly possessed all throughout the country, are legal in 41 out of the 50 states, they are possessed for law-abiding purposes like self-defense and there’s no historical tradition in this country of having the sort of restrictions the state has in mind here of telling people there’s a certain amount of firepower or capacity that's appropriate for them to possess.

– Erin Murphy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The uptick were seeing inchild homicides is related very much to the increase in firepower on the streets, the shooters are often quite young and I think its a fair bet that they havent gone through extensive training.

– Richard Rosenfeld

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The U.S. and allied focus on long-range land-attack and anti-ship cruise missiles was the quickest way to rebuild long-range conventional firepower in the Western Pacific region.

– Robert Haddick

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

There are market doubts whether the fund has the firepower (war chest) to buy into Asiana Airlines.

– Bang Min-jin

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We're talking about a nuclear agreement where we make less and they make less and maybe where we get rid of some of the tremendous firepower that we have right now.

– Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We're talking about a nuclear agreement where we make less and they make less and maybe even where we get rid of some of the tremendous firepower that we have right now. ... And China is frankly also -- we discussed the possibility of a three-way deal instead of a two-way deal. And China, I've already spoken to them. They very much would like to be a part of that deal. In fact, during the trade talks, we started talking about that.

– President Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Will Careem would likely lean more toward an acquisition by Uber to protect value created, and avoid further losses once Uber has more firepower as a result of its IPO.

– Khaldoon Tabaza

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They may not have as much firepower or credibility next go-round.

– Ed Yardeni

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The purpose of the film was to try and use modern technology, not modern film. We can easily go out and shoot reconstructions and all that, but we didn't do that, we used strictly a hundred-year-old footage, but we used computer firepower to restore it to the maximum degree that we could.

– Peter Jackson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

These officers went there unknowing the firepower this suspect had. ... They thought it was a random search warrant.

– Florence County

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I just don't think Cleveland has the firepower to win shootuts, so it's going to have to be grind-it-out games where the tempo is controlled and to do that you have got to have smart, tough guys on the floor.

– Jeff Van Gundy

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Developments in hypersonic propulsion wivolutionize rewarfare by providing the ability to strike targets more quickly, at greater distances, and with greater firepower, china is also developing increasingly sophisticated ballistic missile warheads and hypersonic glide vehicles in an attempt to counter ballistic missile defense systems.

– Robert Ashley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is very important for us to gain more seats in Congress... then we will have enough firepower for pending structural reforms.

– Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The BOJ is running out of monetary policy firepower, so it was not a surprise to see that there is no change to the policy this week, also, China's industrial output figures at the weekend showed contraction yet again and underscore the weakness in demand from the world's second largest economy. There is still a soft demand coupled with an excess supply story in the commodities spectrum.

– Lorne Baring

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The BOJ is running out of monetary policy firepower so it was not a surprise to see that there is no change to the policy this week, also, China's industrial output figures at the weekend showed contraction yet again and underscore the weakness in demand from the world's second largest economy. There is still a soft demand coupled with (an) excess supply story in the commodities spectrum.

– Lorne Baring

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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