Sentence examples for defend a nation from inspiring English sources

Mr Sudarsono agrees that although the defence budget has now been raised to $3.6 billion, it remains inadequate; he compares this sum, spent to defend a nation of 226m people, with the $4.6 billion that tiny Singapore spends to defend 5m people.

Iron Dome is wholly different from what would be required to defend a nation against long-range launchings by Iran or North Korea, even with their limited arsenals of those weapons, and it would do nothing to defend against a larger arsenal of intercontinental warheads, likely accompanied by decoys, from nations like Russia or China.

The idea is to remove the American forces as a target and force the insurgents to face off against other Iraqis, in the hope that the Iraqi people themselves -- to defend a nation they now control -- will then rise to crush the enemy within.

The events of Sept. 11 made it much clearer to Americans that athletes at the service academies are being trained to defend a nation, not merely an end zone, the Navy captain Jake Bowen said recently at a news conference in Philadelphia.

You have no idea how to defend a nation.

They defend a nation's sovereignty, a country's territory and security".

Defending a nation isn't pretty.

We want to live in a prosperous nation like everyone else, as strongly defended a nation as everyone else, and as culturally and intellectually vibrant a nation as everyone else.

No matter what challenges lie ahead of me, I will bear my uniform each day with pride knowing I am defending a nation I truly love and caring for a platoon of soldiers who do the same.

The Seminoles will be defending a nation-leading 52-game home unbeaten streak.

His success saw him become the first home nations fighter ever to defend a Commonwealth title.