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Privateers were privately owned, armed ships hired by governments during time of war.
Hockey is also the only major sport in which players are armed with clubs, and the only one to unfold at such ferocious speed.
Museums will soon be armed with a new tool to detect your fake paintings: a sharp-eyed computer program.
And a handful of greasy, armed empire mechanics in khaki shorts, drilling for oil.
The idea is that, armed with these examples, students will recognise similar problems and apply what they have learned.
Armed with contrast agents and drugs, a dendrimer can then locate and signal the presence of diseased tissue.
It is the principle that one would use a hand grenade to defend one's home against an armed intruder.
Armed with such logic, a coalition of the hopeful is trying to buck the rude trend, even to reverse it.
There is no reason, he says, to have thousands of armed missiles on something close to hair-trigger alert.
The authorities accused a local politician and his armed followers of the crime-a charge the politician has denied in court.
US soldiers, armed only with lethal weapons that they were forbidden to use against looters, were helpless.
So now, armed with self-confidence and a sparkling résumé, you're ready to make the leap.
Crane's partner was armed with a semi-automatic sniper rifle.
Together, these factors could prepare the nucleus for an armed rebel group.
They are absurdly over-armed, overdressed, and overweight.
Many animals are armed with chemicals that hijack the nervous systems of their targets, producing feelings of intense pain.
When you think about it, the possible combinations are endless when you're armed with a jar and a fork.
The scene in which he defuses armed conflict at a bar-with a cup of coffee and a cigarette-sets the tone for an entire generation.
Notably absent from that list are heavily-armed flying gondolas.
He stiff-armed the other two families as well, telling them he was in meetings.
He then drove to his former school, armed with out-of-date rifles and homemade pipe bombs.
Many insects are armed with venom, which they can inject into their enemies via a sting.
They sting fish and other prey with tentacles armed with hollow, harpoonlike filaments that deliver toxic venom.
Polyethylene glycol, the only synthetic ingredient, is a many-armed polymer used in toothpaste and shampoo.
Students do not come to college armed with those skills, nor are they likely to be acquired without guidance.
He'd committed a string of armed robberies and even attempted a kidnapping.
Inside the cylinder is the animal's head--the umbrella part-- which is armed with a ring of nine spines.
Academic psychologists, armed with a veneer of scientific jargon, wanted in on the action.
Armed with the new time line, fossil experts began weighing in.
Opponents said overturning the ban would be disruptive to the armed services.
State television continued to insist that the protesters were armed gangs, and protests continued to be met with violence.
She requested that an armed university police officer be present in the room when she defended her dissertation.
Campion was heavily armed under his loose-fitting, dark-gray wool overcoat.
Imagine that you are a police officer in a tough neighborhood where the criminals are heavily armed.
Armed with this information, the team began to develop and test the turbine's components.

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