anti-personnel love

Definitions

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  • adjective Referring to devices (typically weapons) intended to harm people in particular.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ personnel

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Examples

  • I could not know then that within a few years hundreds of thousands of demonstrators would turn Dow and Honeywell into international pariahs for manufacturing the napalm, the anti-personnel cluster bombs, and the toxic Agent Orange used in the mass murder of untold Vietnamese civilians.

    Bill Zimmerman: The Movement Next Time Bill Zimmerman 2011

  • I could not know then that within a few years hundreds of thousands of demonstrators would turn Dow and Honeywell into international pariahs for manufacturing the napalm, the anti-personnel cluster bombs, and the toxic Agent Orange used in the mass murder of untold Vietnamese civilians.

    Bill Zimmerman: The Movement Next Time Bill Zimmerman 2011

  • The group, chaired by Pauline Latham, the Conservative MP for Mid Derbyshire, is being set up in the wake of a survey showing that the use of anti-personnel mines in 2011 was the highest for seven years.

    MPs launch group to tackle landmines 2012

  • She made an impassioned statement against anti-personnel landmines and urged all responsible governments to stop using them, producing them and selling them.

    Tom Murphy: Comparing Apples to Kittens Tom Murphy 2010

  • The report chronicles in depth the atrocities committed by Gaddafi loyalists, including artillery, mortar and rocket attacks against residential areas and use of indiscriminate weapons such as anti-personnel mines and cluster bombs.

    Murder and torture 'carried out by both sides' of uprising against Libyan regime 2011

  • Three days after that, on Jan. 17, police in Spokane, Wash., found and defused a sophisticated anti-personnel bomb that had been hidden along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.

    Mark Potok: The Arizonification of America Mark Potok 2011

  • Plus a hunting load is easier to defend in court than an anti-personnel round.

    shotgun for home defense 2009

  • Plus a hunting load is easier to defend in court than an anti-personnel round.

    shotgun for home defense 2009

  • She made an impassioned statement against anti-personnel landmines and urged all responsible governments to stop using them, producing them and selling them.

    Tom Murphy: Comparing Apples to Kittens Tom Murphy 2010

  • She made an impassioned statement against anti-personnel landmines and urged all responsible governments to stop using them, producing them and selling them.

    Tom Murphy: Comparing Apples to Kittens Tom Murphy 2010

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