Sentence examples for defence deficit from inspiring English sources

The defence secretary, Philip Hammond, said: "The army is actively managing recruitment to reach the target numbers, but unfortunately redundancies are unavoidable due to the size of the defence deficit that this government inherited and the consequent scale of downsizing required in the army.

Aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is being sold for £3m for scrap metal by the Ministry of Defence to help tackle a multi-billion pound defence deficit.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said: "It is with great regret that we have had to make redundancies to deliver the reduction in the size of the armed forces, but unfortunately they were unavoidable due to the size of the defence deficit that this government inherited.

One is to exempt certain types of government spending, for instance, on research and defence, from deficit calculations.

There are other big disagreements: on national defence, on the deficit and a bigger philosophy question.

He is as skilled a bureaucratic operator as Mr Gates and well-suited to head the defence department when deficit cutting is the priority.

Defence against water deficit caused by low temperature, salinity stress or drought is, in fact, a crucial point in preventing cell damage, especially for those organisms, like plants and microrganisms, that are unable to escape from critical environmental conditions.

"We inherited a multi-billion pound deficit in defence from the previous government that was characterised by waste and inefficiency under Labour.

Having put his faith in youth – the Manchester United wunderkind Marcus Rashford is, at 18 years and 223 days as the tournament kicks off, the youngest player in the competition – Hodgson faces similar challenges to the hosts in getting the best from an embarrassment of attacking riches while masking a deficit in defence.

Cutting, say, $100 billion from that would entail savage cuts to federal services without cutting the deficit much.Excluding defence from cuts makes no sense, given its size and the amount of pork in the Pentagon budget.

A published poet who has never served in uniform, he is not the kind of civilian whom generals warm to easily.In this section Just desserts Where Marilyn trod Bill Cohen in the labyrinth Clean air, dirty fight Amazing grace Redfellas The deficit down South ReprintsPast defence secretaries came to the Pentagon better equipped.