Sentence examples for defense gates from inspiring English sources

(Just this week, former Secretary of Defense Gates, who was opposed to the intervention, told the Daily Beast, "We were playing it by ear").

A Democratic senator told me that, late last year, in an off-the-record lunch meeting, Secretary of Defense Gates met with the Democratic caucus in the Senate.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin July 20, 2010 "This is a terrible confession," Secretary of Defense Gates told the Washington Post, "I can't get a number on how many contractors work for the Office of the Secretary of Defense".

(Maybe Secretary of Defense Gates had those options in mind when he said, Friday, that "in my opinion, any future Defense Secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it").

By Amy Davidson Sorkin September 10, 2010 "Were you concerned at all when you — when the administration had Secretary of Defense Gates call this pastor in Florida that you were elevating somebody who is clearly from the fringe?" Jake Tapper asked President Obama at his press conference today, referring to Gates's request that Terry Jones not burn a Koran.

As secretary of Defense, Gates could meet the president whenever he needed to.

"The treaty will not constrain the United States from deploying the most effective missile defenses possible, nor impose additional costs or barriers on those defenses," Mr. Gates told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.

As for the weak flood walls lining the canals that collapsed in Katrina, those are now secondary defenses against gates that have been built since the storm.

"It simply does not have the built-in, domestic constituency of defense programs," Mr. Gates said.

A former Pentagon official and now a defense adviser to Gates, who was granted anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly, told me: "Rumsfeld was so intent on bringing in a new era, he just rammed things through.

In a public diplomacy strategy somewhat unusual for an American defense secretary, Mr. Gates said he would speak directly to the people of Europe, and not to their governments, "in an effort to try and explain why their security is tied to the success in Afghanistan and how success in Afghanistan impacts the future of the alliance".