Sentence examples for defense arrangement from inspiring English sources

They said the old defense arrangement hampered the development of the military by keeping it overly dependent on its American ally.

Here is one: He should enter into closed-door negotiations with Chinese leaders to write off the $1.14 trillion of American debt currently held by China in exchange for a deal to end American military assistance and arms sales to Taiwan and terminate the current United States-Taiwan defense arrangement by 2015.

His group wants to separate Quebec from the rest of Canada with which it would coexist under vague economic & defense arrangements.

Its semblance of stability depends on a series of negotiated pacts, brokered by the Americans, over items of presumably binding common interest, such as the apportioning of oil revenues and of ministries, and defense arrangements.

He pursued a greater Puerto Rican role in world trade, immigration control, communications, and transport while favouring the commonwealth's retention of U.S. citizenship, common defense arrangements, and a common economic market.

The United States and Japan have adopted anti-takeover measures, but in Japan a recent proliferation of poison pill anti-takeover defense arrangements and a decades-old tradition of cross-shareholdings were common practices hurting minority shareholders, critics said.

Other political issues resolved by compromise were the role of the organization in the promotion of economic and social welfare; the status of colonial areas and the distribution of trusteeships; the status of regional and defense arrangements; and Great Power dominance versus the equality of states.

They declined to assume that the United States, the Soviet Union, or any other country necessarily intended to embark upon aggressive action designed to violate their territorial integrity, and therefore they refused to enter into alliances or collective defense arrangements directed against particular states.

Trump regularly criticized U.S. postwar defense arrangements and their costs, and was one of the loudest critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal for which Japan strongly advocated.

But China is excluded from this order in at least two aspects: first, China is rejected politically for having a different political system; second, the U.S.-led exclusive collective defense arrangements do not cover China's security interests.

The offense-defense arrangement of Williams and Harris — who will both compete with one another and play alongside each other in a revolving backcourt of sorts — is far more precarious than it otherwise would have been with Johnson.