Sentence examples for defences act from inspiring English sources

Lennie constantly updates online news as armed teams from the National Security Force, acting under the auspices of the Home Defences Act, tool up next to the hostage house.

Primary colour Reprints Related topics Military weapons Armed forces East Asia North Korea AsiaHe had hoped that by signing the missile-defence act he could avoid a row about this issue in election year.

British housebuilders, fighting off proposals to landscape new developments so that rainwater runs off naturally, plead that house prices will rise as a result, and thus four years after the 2010 Flood Defence Act, requiring such development to improve our much-depleted flood defences, there is still no agreement.

And four years after the Flood Defence Act, which requires housebuilders to create developments which ensure rainwater runs off naturally – rather than clogging up already overloaded drainage systems – it seems clear that Defra no longer has the staff to ensure the legislation is enforced.

But during World War One, Australia's Defence Act 1903 excluded people who were not substantially of European descent from enlisting.

The ADF's command arrangements are specified in the Defence Act (1903) and subordinate legislation.

This required legislation amending the Defence Act and was not implemented until October 1939.

Enlisted under the Defence Act 1903, the AIF was an all volunteer force for the duration of the war.

It would remain theoretically on the books under the National Defence Act as punishment for mutiny and treason until 1998.

The individual units continued to be administered under the various colonial Acts until the Defence Act 1903 brought all the units under one piece of legislation.

The provisions of the Defence Act prevented them from being sent overseas, though, and the main focus of Australia's combat effort was the all volunteer Second Australian Imperial Force.