Sentence examples for defence efforts from inspiring English sources

Mr Juppé describes as "rather astonishing" last month's comments by Robert Gates, the former American defence secretary, criticising Europe's paltry defence efforts.

In deference to the neutrals, he wants political arrangements that enable the keenest EU members to pool their defence efforts while allowing the squeamish to stay on the sidelines.

"Everything comes at a cost and if Bill Shorten truly is honest about his commitment to deliver bipartisan support in relation to our defence efforts in the Middle East he'll provide bipartisan support to pay for it".

Moreover, financial and human resources for military affairs are scarce and cannot be duplicated, while France and Britain want to restart the Saint-Malo process of bilateral defence efforts launched nearly 10 years ago.

The establishment of this base, France's first in the Gulf, followed a strategic defence review that called for a reorientation of overseas defence efforts away from military help for former colonies towards a "strategic arc" running through the Mediterranean to the Horn of Africa, the Gulf and on to South Asia.The French are keen to stress that this does not constitute a "withdrawal" from Africa.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the capital "should be out of danger by Wednesday", but warned that the focus of defence efforts was now in the south of the country.

Labelling their involvement as part of the EU defence effort could make it more acceptable.

Director of the F.B.I. said that things were humming, on account of work connected with the defence effort, and that the total N.Y.

In the decades to 2050, America will find itself playing an ever-increasing role in the developed world's defence effort.

"As foreign secretary, I am opposed, and still oppose, Trident as an expensive financial inroad into our conventional defence effort", Owen writes.

In fact, ever since the end of the cold war, far from American industry getting a hidden subsidy from the Pentagon, civilian technology has underwritten much of America's defence effort.