Sentence examples for budget defence from inspiring English sources

As a share of the budget, defence spending has shrunk since 2001.

In the 2010 11 budget, defence spending was A$25.7 billion, representing the 13th largest defence budget.

As of the 2011 12 budget, Defence planned to have a strength of 58,627 full-time personnel supported by 21,397 civilians and contractors in the 2018 19 financial year.

Mr Abe has announced that after a decade of declining military budgets, defence spending will rise this year.

In 2009 the Pentagon realised that a breach of the Nunn-McCurdy rules on over-budget defence-procurement programmes was inevitable, because costs would exceed the original baseline by more than 50%.

That's why even with our current economic challenges my budget increases defence spending.

He told the BBC he would be "fighting the corner for my budget and defence".

"The budget for defence is increasing but we don't see that translating into better kit and security personnel….

Leanne Wood, on the other hand, was saying that the government was spending 6% of its budget on defence.

We had to sort out the defence budget and we have sorted out the defence budget.

This economy-first mindset manifested itself most plainly in Ike's defence budget formula, which he calculated using the "remainder method": revenues minus domestic spending equals defence budget.