I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.
Quotes about build-up (16 Quotes)
What it shows is that inventories are still in pretty good balance. There's no sign that there's any unwanted build-up.
The melting of ice at the edges of the ice sheet is also increasing, which causes the ice to flow faster. A race is going on in Greenland between these competing forces of snow build-up in the interior and ice loss on the edges. But we don't know how long they will be approximately in balance with each other or if that balance has already tipped in favor of the recently accelerating outflow from glaciers.
The entire market in the AsiaPacific region is growing well, but China is extremely strong, largely because of the Beijing Olympics build-up.
It's like the build-up to Christmas, waiting to open the big present under the tree. You don't know what you're going to get. Hopefully the NCAA selection committee is like a whole big Santa Claus.
A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.
In this campaign, Al Gore is proposing that we spend more of your money on a military build-up than on education,
In our short-term planning, the centre will play a significant role in helping Australia win back the Ashes next summer with the Australian team basing itself here in the build-up to the Ashes series.
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.
This decision was taken due to the increasing instability in the affected areas, including a build-up of forces on either side of the border with increased potential for armed conflict.
We know over the last year, in the build-up, there had been attempts to get him to step down, to attack his leadership. I don't see the fire from these sparks. It seems to have died out.
There is a heavy build-up of troops on both sides of the border. It has been quite bad in the last three weeks. I think there is some cause for concern.
The market in the entire AsiaPacific region is growing well, but it is extremely strong in China with the build-up to the Beijing Olympics.
There was a clear knock-on in the build-up to their second try which the referee didn't see - and there were two occasions when we got the ball over Tiverton's try line, but the referee wouldn't give us the tries.
Unlike the Gulf War, it won't determine a recession. There was long build-up to the Gulf War. We had troops over there for a month or two before they actually were engaged. I wouldn't expect that what action follows from here will last that long or have that much of a build-up.
People are definitely asking ... people who don't keep up with basketball. I'm not sure so much about build-up or hype, but it's going to be a big game, and it's going to be rockin' in that gym.