Sentence examples for defence mission from inspiring English sources

The person concerned had written to ask about MoD policy on alien abductions and pointed out that if the experience was real, the MoD was failing to maintain the territorial integrity of UK airspace – a core defence mission.

"In the military context, these include [guidance for] anti-ballistic missile operations, long-range precision strike and ground-based mid-course missile defence missions, intelligence, and communications activities.

Darpa's press release for the Cheetah project suggested that the robots might ultimately be used in "emergency response, humanitarian assistance and other defence missions".

But nothing has been done, prompting the community to organise self-defence missions.

He said if the government could demonstrate a benefit to the Australian defence force mission in Iraq "then we obviously have to look at it – but we will be pragmatic and we won't be naive".

He augmented his role at ACAC with Chairmanship of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) from 1968, and joined an Australian defence industries mission to the US the following year.

He also said laws on compensating victims of sexual violence had been changed in Kosovo and Croatia and that the EU had decided to build prevention of sexual violence into common security and defence policy missions.

10 50am: Obama is directly addressing any sceptics of his decision to keep on Robert Gates at the Pentagon, noting that the holdover defence secretary's mission will be to "responsibly end" the Iraq war.

"The Rapid Reaction Force is expected to focus on dissuasion, through a Rapid Reaction Force of 12 battalions, capable of aiding MONUC to secure the east of the country and to realise constitutional missions," Defence Minister Chikez Diemu said.

"Ballistic missile defence is just one mission area in the wide range of missions that this ship can execute at one time," say the Donald Cook's second-in-command, Commander Charles Hampton.

In October 2013, the delegation and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence led a joint mission to Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif.