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The recoil, for example, was negligible, and the gun was certainly not on a hair-trigger.
But I know our hair-trigger reputation has jolted dictators in Libya, North Korea and elsewhere.
Much would be gained in terms of global security if the nuclear-weapons States could agree to stand down from hair-trigger postures.
Many warheads are deployed on land-based missile systems, bombers and submarines in a hair-trigger situation.
Today, the United States and Russia maintain approximately 4,000 strategic nuclear weapons on constant, hair-trigger alert.
The two former Cold War foes still maintain more than 20,000 nuclear warheads between them, many on hair-trigger alert.
Those who survive greatly rely on the hair-trigger control of just about every muscle, from head to foot.
The Tokyo Forum calls for all states with nuclear weapons to endorse and implement the goal of zero nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.
While there has been some progress towards disarmament, nuclear weapons worldwide still number in the thousands, many of them on hair-trigger alert.
Russia and the United States should agree on reciprocal steps to take their nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert and should create a joint commission to facilitate this goal.
One particular concern is that more than a decade after the end of the cold war, large parts of strategic arsenals are still configured on hair-trigger alert, to be launched within minutes of the warning of an attack.
McDermott is petite and sharp-featured and has reddish-highlighted brunet curls, snappy New York-Irish diction, and a hair-trigger laugh.
The instantaneous transmission of both good and bad economic news creates a climate of hair-trigger reactions as traders in different markets buy or sell on the rumor of the day.
Thousands of nuclear weapons remain on hair-trigger alert.
Even though Presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev agreed that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, thousands of nuclear weapons remain on hair-trigger alert.
At that tight course, I recall the R6 was the most demanding bike to ride, not because of its handling, which was the nimblest of the machines on test, but because of its engine's hair-trigger response.
And Mr. Bettany's hair-trigger envy is astonishing.
Was he protecting Stell from her hair-trigger stepson?
Currency devaluations set off hair-trigger inflationary expectations.
The painting catches this hair-trigger instant.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As he was not a thoroughbred, his nerves were not of the hair-trigger order.
I then got a new dog and chained him, and a duelling pistol, with a hair-trigger.
It merely exploded him into action like a finger on a hair-trigger.
He was a keen boy with a hair-trigger balance, and in a gunplay he would be apt to beat the best of them all.
That rug really pulled the room together,'' declares Dude's friend and bowling partner, Walter, a Vietnam War veteran with a hair-trigger temper.
The inmates were asleep, but it was a sleep that was set on a hair-trigger, on account of the exciting episode of the night.
Every nerve was at tension, each muscle set at hair-trigger.
Them fellers air allus on a hair-trigger when a mortgage falls in.
Revel's reflexes were still, if not hair-trigger, at least very quick.
Only the weight of the forefinger was needed to spring the hair-trigger.
Everyone becomes a kind of libertarian before they think too hard about condemnation, especially if their life is in the hair-trigger,'' Lefcoe said.
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