passage of arms
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Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington A disputed passage of arms Ronald Reagan's arms control negotiators face an immensely difficult task in trying to push their Soviet counterparts toward an agreement.
From Time Magazine Archive
After our—what shall we call it?—little passage of arms?
From The Lady of the Mount by Frederic Stewart Isham
After that preliminary passage of arms, comes the capital argument in the book.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Charles Bastide
I like to believe, in the meantime, that this passage of arms has resulted in such a vindication1143 of the traditional Reading of 1 Timothy iii.
From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon
Your uncle and I often have a passage of arms together.”
From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by George Manville Fenn
