Sentence examples for defence responsibilities from inspiring English sources

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Lord Dannatt said boosting troops would send a message that "Britain takes its defence responsibilities seriously".

Initially these were militias in support of British regulars, but when military support for the colonies ended in 1870, the colonies assumed their own defence responsibilities.

The Sabres began to play a role in the Vietnam War in 1965, when their air defence responsibilities expanded to include protection of USAF aircraft using Ubon as a base for strikes against North Vietnam.

Under the Constitution of Australia, defence responsibility was now vested in the new federal government.

Psychiatrists concluded that Miles was not schizophrenic and did not have a defence of diminished responsibility.

However, it seems very likely that science will generate many more grounds for the defence of diminished responsibility.

However, provocation was strictly interpreted at the time and the diminished responsibility defence was enacted only in 1957, partly as a result of Ellis's case.

Every week in court such reports are publicly examined, whether to assess claims for compensation, or the defence of diminished responsibility, or the plea of unfitness for trial.

The DPP organised psychologists to assess Daniel's mental health and argued that he should have been able to use the defence of diminished responsibility at trial.

What is needed is to turn the army into a small professional force for external defence and centralise responsibility for internal security in the public-security ministry, argues Raúl Benítez, a defence specialist at the National Autonomous University in Mexico City.The biggest doubt is whether the government can stop its forces being infiltrated and corrupted.

"Defence is Shaun Edwards' responsibility and I would like to see more variety in the attack.