Sentence examples for defense crisis from inspiring English sources

First, NATO needs to define more precisely what military capabilities are needed to meet its three agreed tasks: collective defense, crisis management and cooperative security.

Mr. Hensarling said House Republicans were committed to finding the full $1 trillion in savings over 10 years but wanted to redistribute them to prevent "a national defense crisis".

A judge in New Orleans on Friday ordered that seven prisoners charged with crimes ranging from murder to aggravated rape be released from jail because there isn't adequate funding for their legal representation, the most drastic sign of a growing public defense crisis in the city and throughout Louisiana.

Circumscription of liberties that may have some arguable justification in a national defense crisis should not set the norm for more peaceful or more 'ordinary' times in the life of a nation".

Although Louisiana's indigent defense crisis is among the country's most dire, advocates say the state legislature has eyed another potentially massive round of budget cuts that could lead to the wholesale collapse of indigent defense.

He cited intense debate over Britain's role in Afghanistan and the "defense budget crisis" as two prominent issues.

There was a need for a huge "homeland security" campaign, including intensive municipal civil-defense and crisis-response teams, new antiterrorist detection technology, education reform to produce more science and math whizzes, new Cabinet-level positions (Secretary of Homeland Security, for example, which President Bush finally proposed last week), and bureaucratic reform.

"It's an attempted defense against the crisis," said Maria Karamesini, an associate professor of economics at Panteion University who briefs the European Commission on gender equality issues.

"The intention has been to arm these circles of terrorists for a defense in a crisis like the one we have now -- to use arms against Venezuelans".

"Some of the allies worry that NATO would not be able to come to their defense in a crisis," said Tomas Valasek, one of the authors who is also advising Mrs. Albright's team.

Sadly, while it is widely recognized in this 50th-anniversary year of the historic Gideon decision that indigent defense is in crisis across the country, until the recent budget cuts that was not true in the federal courts.