The phrase "amounts of defense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing various quantities or levels of defense in a specific context, such as military, legal, or sports.
Example: "The report highlighted the amounts of defense allocated to each sector in the budget."
Alternatives: "levels of defense" or "quantities of defense".
But at the last minute Cochran, who has been in the Senate since 1979 and brings disproportionate amounts of defense money to Mississippi, told Reid that his leadership wouldn't allow him to vote with the Democrats and end the filibuster — even on a matter of national security.
That sort of victory in Vietnam would have likely cost thousands of American lives and untold amounts of defense spending.
As long as Egypt continued to abide by the 1979 Camp David peace treaty with Israel, its leaders could expect massive amounts of defense equipment and training services from the world's most capable military force.
Silencing of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) in N. attenuata leads to a decrease in photosynthetic rate and reduced plant growth and lower amounts of defense metabolites after treatment with simulated herbivory [ 25].
Tomato plants damaged by S. exigua caterpillars with intact ventral eversible gland (VEGI) expressed significantly higher amounts of defense-related enzymes and genes, and headspace VOCs than plants damaged by caterpillars with ablated VEG (VEGA).
Correction: An earlier version of this column misstated the amount of defense cuts mandated by the process known as sequestration.
Some Republicans have even sought deeper cuts in domestic spending to offset the larger amount of defense funds.
In fact, the very success of deterrence a high probability of nonattack throughout a long period of peace tends to reduce the amount of defense spending that the electorate considers necessary to achieve deterrence.
Red squirrels have flourished in Newfoundland because in the 9,000 years that black spruce evolved in the absence of red squirrels, the spruce have lost a considerable amount of defense directed at red squirrels.
Israel imports roughly 40percentt of its oil from Azerbaijan and ships a significant amount of defense systems and weapons to the former Soviet Republic.
Republicans also figure to add a healthy amount of defense money in a fund supposedly used for war operations, though how much remains undetermined.
