Sentence examples for defence was ordered from inspiring English sources

In a terse letter sent on 21 May, the Ministry of Defence was ordered to find out who was saying what to whom, seeing as "no options have yet been presented to ministers".

Defence was ordered as part of the 1904 05 naval construction programme as the last of three armoured cruisers.

The Defence Ministry was ordered to stage a call-up of reserves, meaning theoretically all men up to 40 in a country with universal male conscription, although Ukraine would struggle to find extra guns or uniforms for many of them.

On 18 April 1984, the Soviet government instructed Sukhoi to develop an air defence fighter; Mikoyan was ordered to build a lighter multirole fighter.

The review was ordered by the defence minister, Ehud Barak, four years ago and is expected to report in the next two weeks.

The paper was ordered to submit its defence before a previously agreed deadline of 9 February.

Armeekorps (motorized) on the left, was ordered to cross the Aisne River breaching the French defences and head south.

Last year, the Ministry of Defence was ordered to pay nearly £190,000 to lesbian Lance Bombardier Kerry Fletcher, 32, of the Royal Artillery, after an employment tribunal held up her claim of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, saying she had been victimised in a sustained campaign.

Even as he was praising the Security Council resolution, his defence secretary, William Cohen, was ordering the immediate inoculation of American troops in the Gulf against anthrax.

An Israeli official told Barak Ravid, diplomatic correspondent for the Haaretz newspaper, that the Government had agreed to the five-day extension, but that the truce had been violated by the Palestinians and the Israeli Defence Forces had been ordered to retaliate.

The harbour defence companies and ships' crews were ordered out of the air raid shelters.