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Ireland's defence has grown increasingly resolute under the Australian coach Les Kiss, and it was the most impressive facet of their game here.

In recent decades, plant defences have grown into a vast field of investigation following the demonstration that many of these traits are only activated upon attack [6].

In oil-wealthy Azerbaijan, defence spending has grown by an average of 50% every year since 2003.

Defence expenditure has grown in line with the oil- and gas-swollen state budget, to Rb821bn (US$35.4bn) in 2007 from Rb214bn in 2000.

Russia's defence budget has grown by over 50% since 2007, and fully a third of it is devoted to nuclear weapons: twice the share of, say, France.

The firm's marine division has grown so fast that it has now overtaken the defence business.

Boxer Nathan Cleverly has grown in confidence and stature in 2012 with impressive defences of his WBO light-heavyweight title against difficult American opponents.

"I was only following orders" was a defence rejected at the Nuremberg Tribunal after the second world war; since then jurisprudence has grown, strengthening that view.

"The motivation of our enemies has grown in recent years, but so too the might of the IDF [Israeli Defence Forces]," he said in a statement.

But today Boeing is no longer so heavily dependent on its civil-jet business, now down from 80% of sales to little more than half, as its defence and space interests have grown.

In June, the department drastically cut the sum it was expected to seek from tobacco firms to fund stop-smoking programmes.Every cloud has a silver liningRoche reported that sales of its Tamiflu antiviral drug, touted as the best defence against bird flu, had grown by 263% in the first nine months of 2005 compared with 2004 (total drug sales rose by 20%).