1.   Experts on nonlethal weapons tend to agree a country fielding blinding lasers could reap advantages, but some have moral qualms.

2.   Given what they see as the dangers of blinding lasers, the Red Cross is lobbying hard for approving an international ban this year.

3.   One frightening prospect would be a government using blinding lasers to control crowds, he said.

4.   Pentagon lawyers are undermining a landmark treaty banning blinding lasers on the battlefield, human rights activists said Friday.

5.   Delegates consoled themselves with an accord restricting so-called blinding laser weapons.

6.   On a separate front, several delegations are pushing for a ban on so-called blinding laser weapons, under development in the United States and several other countries.

7.   Hence the renewed interest in non-lethal weapons such as foam barriers, acoustic generators, rubber pellets, high-powered microwave systems and blinding lasers.

8.   With blinding laser lights and smoke, not to mention the balloons, it was hard to make out the clothes amid all the spectacle.