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• n  the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war
• v  prepare oneself for a military confrontation
• v  supply with arms

• Pronovost, 43, began investigating this alarming trend at Johns Hopkins' hospital in 2001 and concluded that arming physicians with a chart reminding them of each step in routine .
• Aside from arming the opposition, the IRGC is capable of doing serious damage to our logistics lines.
• Led civil rights cause by arming troops with dreams and oratory.

• armament
• equipping
• arm
• build up
• fortify
• gird

• disarming
• disarmament
• disarm

News & Articles

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• FOX NEWS POLL: Voters against arming Syrian rebels- FOX NEWS POLL: 66 percent worried about their health care under ...
  Overall, 66 percent of voters disagree with arming the rebels, according to a Fox News national poll released Wednesday. Twenty-four percent approve.
  June 26, 2013 - Fox News
• Syrian Rebels Inherit Arms From Gadhafi's Former Forces
  The New York Times reports that Qatar has been arming rebels inside Syria by taking weapons from Libya and shipping them through Turkey. The same weapons were once held by Moammar Gadhafi. Audie Cornish talks to Times reporter Mark Mazzetti.
  June 26, 2013 - NPR
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  Syria says arming rebels will prolong war BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria plans to attend proposed international peace talks as a means to agree a national government of "genuine partnership" but will not participate in order to hand over power to the opposition, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Monday. Moualem said if the proposed talks in Geneva went ahead there should be a ceasefire and ...
  June 24, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• David Petraeus in Africasia
  Referring to recent clashes between the Baghdad government and Shiite militia loyal to militant cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, General David Petraeus said "the flare up highlighted the detructive role Iran has played in funding, training, arming and...
• Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
  The general picture . . . is that there are elements at least of the Iranian regime that are backing, financing, arming, supporting terrorism in Iraq and I repeat that our forces are there specifically at the request of the Iraqi Government and... Tony Blair http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFrasCBCQNLoiRZGTcJYVnJN2a4xw Times Online http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1620785.ece&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGBulL2HUPdnAlrDNVzviUqNsDN8w Apr 5, 2007 5401 7880 arming That's part of what's financing their operations. That's part of what's arming them. That's what makes them so dangerous," Obama said. "And this is something that we take very seriously and we're going to continue to work on diligently in...