Sentence examples for defence amounts from inspiring English sources

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His defence amounts to: if Al Pacino can hawk coffee, he can plug Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.

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His defence amounted to: "Have you seen what these women look like?

Smart and Whittaker's defence amounted to admitting they had been out for dinner with a Paddy Power PR the day before, who for good measure also ensured that "we got to go to see Chelsea play again".

I'm not eligible to vote but if I was I would like to know details on matters such as defence, amount of debt that Scotland would inherit, currency, EU membership, etc.

It estimates that the global cost of corruption in the defence sector amounts to at least $20bn£12.6bnbn) a year – the total sum pledged by the G8 countries in 2009 to fight world hunger.

The government's entire defence has amounted to 'trust us' and now the tribunal has said the same.

"Europe spends 60 per cent on its defence, the amount spent by the United States, but in the case of the military aircraft involved in the recent conflict in Kosovo, Europe could only field 20 per cent of those aircraft," he said.

"The government's entire defence has amounted to 'trust us' and now the tribunal has said the same," she added.

But a more realistic estimate, given the state of the country's economy, is that the gap in the defence budget will amount to £36bn, and possibly more, under existing plans, the Commons public accounts committee warns.

Mr Dunn, however, said the college mounted a robust legal defence, limiting the amount of material that was released to police.

There had been serious and mounting rumblings from both former employees and security analysts saying Sony did not take corporate security seriously enough - but words like "unprecedented" will bolster Sony's defence that no amount of security would have prevented what happened.

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