Sentence examples for decrease in military from inspiring English sources

But anxious lawmakers discovered a deeper problem — a "precipitous" decrease in military vigilance over the nation's missile arsenal.

One of the most important points of Liberal policy in 1911 was a decrease in military expenditure.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Offering a gloomy assessment of the nearly month-old cease-fire in Syria, Kofi Annan, its main architect, said Tuesday that despite some decrease in military assaults, continuing "serious violations" could undermine the full peace plan.

I am referring to the decrease in military spending.

A decrease in military engagement would suggest falling rates of sympathetic ophthalmia as the probability of ocular injury from battlefield trauma decreases.

4. In return, the Republicans agree to a significant decrease in military spending.

Federal outsourcing has fluctuated over the past decade and dipped in 2013 under President Barack Obama, largely because of budget cuts and decreases in military operations, according to the National Contract Management Association, which tracks the spending.

I truly hope that 2012 sees a decrease in that military divorce rate.

As air chief and then defense chief, Elworthy presided over a decrease in British military power, spending cutbacks, and growing concern over Soviet hegemony and the emergency in Northern Ireland.

Egypt needs an increase, not a decrease, in non-military aid to buttress economic development.

This version of progressivism calls for a redoubtable federal government, increases in social spending, establishing a single-payer health care system, decreases in the military budget, and opposition to most U.S. military interventions.