The phrase "address defence" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to refer to discussing or dealing with defense-related issues, but it lacks clarity and proper context.
Example: "In our meeting, we need to address defense strategies for the upcoming project."
Alternatives: "discuss defense" or "tackle defense issues".
By using some of their domestic arguments but applying them to the whole of Europe, Sarkozy has cleverly distanced himself from accusations of populism and outpaced Hollande, who the same day delivered a lame address on defence.
In recent years, research into the use of micro-Doppler signatures for target classification to address many defence and security challenges has been of increasing interest.
Within the first year, a set of criteria to address flood defence and nature development goals and the related interests of the involved actors were agreed to by the different actors involved in the pilot project for use in the decision-making process.
More controversially is the issue of rib fractures as a result of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), an issue often addressed by defence lawyers in court.
This reporter watched Mr Jolly address local builders, defence contractors and party donors at more than one event.
After Mattis' address, Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said Mattis had explained that "the impatience of the American taxpayer is a reality".
They cannot be addressed without enhancing defence capabilities and the resilience of Nato partners.
In 2009, I went to the Penderel's Oak pub near London's high court to address a meeting in defence of Simon Singh.
He said that he had been asked by both the prosecution and defence to address the "continuing publicity as to the first trial in this case which ended last week in which the jury was unable to reach a verdict.
Katzenberg's MIPCOM address was a rousing defence of the traditional television industry, complete with a verbal smackdown for former Intel executive Sean Maloney for his prediction in 2007 that online video "will completely unravel the traditional television model".
