Added standing, the theory goes, could provide political muscle to beat swords into bigger tax cuts.
It is, in effect, an effort to beat swords into automobile fenders.
Little wonder that human imagination seeks new ways to beat swords into plowshares.
The door of the tower presents the words, "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares."
Truly beating swords into plowshares makes moral and political sense for an impoverished country no longer at war.
In the days of yore, nations may have beaten their swords into plowshares when war gave way to peace.
Christians should beat their swords into ploughshares and the nations should not learn war any more.
The name, of course, is derived from the biblical injunction to beat swords into plowshares.
Their aplomb is unrelated to any immediate opportunity to beat swords into plowshares.
Their actions were inspired by the vision of Isaiah 2:4 to "beat swords into ploughshares".