Sentence examples for base for defence from inspiring English sources

The museum was named a provincial-level base for "defence education".The authorities later had second thoughts.

Winchester had previously been the capital of Anglo-Saxon England, but from this time on, London became the main forum for foreign traders and the base for defence in time of war.

"Gibraltar is a strategic base for UK defence and as such Royal Navy ships visit its waters throughout the year as part of a range of regular and routine deployments," an MoD spokesman said.

Japanese forces first landed on the mainland of New Guinea on 8 March 1942 when they invaded Lae and Salamaua to secure bases for the defence of the important base they were developing at Rabaul.

It is now a training base for the Jamaica Defence Force, but a new museum and collection chronicles its history and the regiments stationed there.

A new patrol base for the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) was set up in February and on a recent afternoon, a handful of young recruits cleaned their weapons in the shade of the small wooden building.

Spain has provided a base for Aegis missile-defence ships, Turkey is the site for a new X-band radar and SM-3 interceptors will find homes in Poland and Romania.But the big picture is a lot more troubling.

More than 300 soldiers were based there as it became a base for anti-aircraft defences and a radar station.

The party called for a national security policy based on the need for defence, rather than "aggression", and for a foreign policy which would include food aid to the less-developed nations.

More recently, it cut by half the amount of oil it sends to the Czech Republic through the "Friendship" pipeline, in what many have interpreted as punishment for the Czechs' willingness to host a radar base for America's planned missile defences.Despite much high-minded talk, Europe has responded to these events with indecision and division.

Under this, Washington took on responsibility for defence and gained the right to set up military bases and deny other nations access to Micronesia.