Sentence examples for defence meaning from inspiring English sources

Defence Cameron has committed to the Nato target of spending 2% of national income on defence, meaning the budget will rise over the parliament.

Otherwise he may have to move Toby Alderweireld up from central defence, meaning Maya Yoshida will have to partner José Fonte (Florin Gardos not being an option following his red card on Tuesday).

Roman Abramovich was not at Stamford Bridge to witness the latest setback in Chelsea's increasingly shambolic title defence, meaning that the owner missed the crowd repeatedly giving Mourinho their backing as Liverpool cruised towards an impressive 3-1 victory.

This happens, he said, because when a person is infected by flu, their original antibodies are woken up as the body's first line of defence, meaning if they are poorly-matched they will be less efficient at attacking the virus.

Judge P Garlick QC was forced to accept this defence, meaning that, technically, now a precedent has been set, the substance is still... kind of... legal?

Many sectors of the government, state-owned businesses and the public service were also given roles in defence, meaning that almost the entire population was brought in one way or another into the scope of state defence planning.

Solicitors acting for your paper say that, as the article was in the public interest, it might be defensible under a Reynolds qualified privilege defence; here "meaning" is not an issue but you and the journalist would be cross-examined on how responsible the journalism was if it goes to trial.

Time and again thereafter Norwich threatened on the break, but the Ipswich defence somehow held, meaning the result was in doubt until the last.

That term comes from the DLA Piper Report, and it's also comes from the Defence Abuse Taskforce – meaning that it is not necessarily of evidentiary standard.

They constitute an unprecedented reduction of some 10% in non-defence discretionary spending, meaning all government programmes bar mandatory entitlement schemes and defence (see chart).

By March 18th the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democrat-controlled Senate must agree on another spending measure, or the non-essential bits of the government will have to shut up shop.The Republicans want to see non-defence discretionary spending, meaning all but the expensive bits of the budget, trimmed by $61 billion, or about 10%.