Sentence examples for crusader program from inspiring English sources

The Crusader program, estimated to cost eleven billion dollars, was a convenient symbol for transformers, and George Bush referred to it in his Presidential campaign as an example of the sort of Army bloat that needed reform.

Those Army officials, who have not been identified, also faxed to Capitol Hill a set of talking points, which argued that terminating the Crusader program would endanger soldiers on the battlefield.

Right now, Carlyle is hoping that financing is provided for the $13.7 billion Crusader program.

Randolph and his former teammate Daryl Brown also intertwined the Crusader football program with the local Big Brother program.

While Mr. Rumsfeld has been successful in getting a few outmoded weapons systems deleted — his main triumphs have been killing the $11 billion Crusader artillery program and the $38 billion Comanche helicopter program —any momentum he developed for Pentagon transformation was overtaken by his focus on Iraq.

"The secretary of defense has determined that the Crusader artillery program is no longer relevant to our future requirements," the White House budget director, Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., wrote to lawmakers.

Some people have speculated that he has been unhappy recently with the message of the party and with the Bush administration's effort to kill the Crusader artillery program, which was to have been assembled in his district.

He said the recent Congressional effort to block the Bush administration's cancellation of the high-tech Crusader artillery program, designed for a conventional military threat like the old Soviet Union, showed the endurance of conventional thinking.

He and his wife, Mabel, published the militant journal Crusader and broadcast a radio program called Radio Free Dixie.

Over objections from many in the Pentagon, in December 2001 the administration killed a Raytheon missile defense system for the Navy budgeted at an estimated $9 billion, then killed the $11 billion Crusader mobile howitzer program by United Defense Industries in May 2002.

But the Indian government is no crusader against surveillance programs.