Word: weaponizing
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...Extremists, twice beaten and suffering the loss of many former adherents who have become disgusted with the methods employed, have been forced to use the most dangerous weapon in their power. They threaten to set on foot throughout India a movement advising the people not to pay taxes. As taxation has always been the particularly sore point with the large, ignorant class of India, this idea holds a strong appeal. If this threat is carried out and is successful, the outcome will be certain and fatal. The British Government in India will not trifle with disobedience...
...sounding each other's attitude; Japan is keenly observant. Underneath the plans and appropriations for bigger navies lies the fundamental doubt as to whether expenditure is defensible. What hesitancy there exists is largely due to the increasingly questionable value of the modern dreadnought in warfare, for as a naval weapon it is being rapidly superseded by the other and more effective implements...
...that one of the most famous institutions for higher learning in America, the land of the free, does in spirit espouse the cause of the same military tyranny from which we so proudly rescued ourselves 150 years ago. If that is true, would not silence have been your safest weapon in concealing Harvard's shame...
...that calamity would befall them if they did not repent--yet clearly only if they did not do so. The object was repentance, not destruction. The threat of the consequences of their sin was the means of bringing about reform. It was the argument Jonah was to use, the weapon he was to employ; but he had the threat so firmly fixed in his mind that it became the subject of his prophecy and he lost from sight the ultimate object for which it was to be used...
...will prove in the nature of a compromise. The Government will, no doubt, issue a statement that all negotiations with Japan will be made public. The striking students will then resume their interrupted labors, fortified with the knowledge that the student, if organized with his fellows, is not wholly weapon less...