Sentence examples for defence finance from inspiring English sources

It has gained a clutch of ministries, but not the important ones: foreign, defence, finance and interior.

The ministers of foreign affairs, defence, finance, privatisation and industry all made their exit.Now the government is under a blunter and more immediate threat.

So, too, have the increasingly complex institutional arrangements that give power to experts in areas – defence, finance, environment, health – where technical knowledge is assumed to be required.

Mr Peres, 83, has spent five decades in Israeli politics serving twice as prime minister, and as defence, finance and foreign minister.

First elected to the Knesset in 1959, his cabinet roles included the defence, finance and foreign affairs portfolios before he served two brief periods as prime minister.

Now the president seems intent on an extraordinary concentration of power into his family's hands, and on its prolongation.Mr Rajapaksa himself, besides being president, is minister of defence, finance and planning, ports and aviation, and highways.

For British ministers like Hutton, the picture is made darker still by the disastrous state of defence finances.

Others were made caretakers at the defence and finance ministries, which Mrs Kumaratunga oversees.

Former defence and finance ministers as well as the former national security adviser, who all served under Jonathan, have been charged with corruption offences in recent months.

Testing in areas including the Environment, Non Destructive Testing, Aerospace & Defence and Finance were also mentioned as areas where Intertek could be keen to develop/expand a presence.

Their long-range assignment from Moscow: burrow deep into US society and cultivate contacts with academics, entrepreneurs and government policymakers on subjects from defence to finance.