The phrase "a time when defense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific period or situation related to defense, such as in military, legal, or sports contexts.
Example: "There was a time when defense strategies were primarily focused on physical barriers rather than technology."
Alternatives: "an era of defense" or "a period of defense".
It was at a time when defense was suffocating offense.
Further, at a time when defense spending has more than tripled since 1997 and now consumes more than half of the discretionary budget, the Republican budget does nothing to reduce unnecessary military spending.
At a time when Defense Secretary Robert Gates is seeking counsel from young academicians in our university's anthropology and social sciences departments, Obama is relying on old standbys whose out-of-date philosophies were shaped by the Vietnam and Cold War era.
The trial is scheduled to resume at 1 30 p.m. Eastern time, when defense attorney Jennifer Willmott will redirect LaViolette's testimony.
All this comes at a time when European defense spending is under extreme pressure — witness the recent dramatic cuts in defense spending announced by Britain — and NATO looks to adapt its security policies to meet new threats.
Many note that his bleak and unflattering depiction of a traditional Muslim society comes at a time when the defense of laïcité, the French model of secularism, has increasingly assumed anti-Muslim undertones, and when the far-right National Front was able to beat all other parties in the 2014 European Parliament elections, with nearly twenty-five per cent of the vote.
There was once a time when Johnson scared defenses, but, at 34, he has lost the scintillating change-of-direction and stop-start quickness that made him a perennial Pro Bowler.
Most times when defense tackles the ball, it will be outside.
A year ago, he made waves by speaking out against the prospect of a lone Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities at a time when Mr. Netanyahu and his defense minister were believed to be contemplating just such a move.
The announcements came at a time when the secretary of defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, has declared that the military has more bases than it needs, and that he will send a new round of base-closing proposals to Congress by the end of the year.
If it obtains TRW and its satellite and missile capacity, Northrop, which makes the B-2 bomber, would position itself to challenge Boeing for airplane- and space-based defense contracts in a time when the U.S. is gearing up to boost defense spending.
