Sentence examples for defense outlay from inspiring English sources
Analysts outside China say the real defense outlay could be considerably higher if other areas, such as spending on outer space, are included.
The Pentagon estimates that China's actual military spending is much higher, perhaps twice the officially budgeted amount, as much as seven times India's defense outlay.
Based on 2017 figures, Berlin would need to up its defense outlay to $76 billion a year, from its current level of $47 billion.
Present congressional budget negotiations for fiscal 2018 focus on a smaller increase in defense outlays.
Currently, Washington is allocating about a dozen dollars for defense outlays for every dollar it spends on diplomacy and international assistance.
And here lies a challenge to NATO that is perhaps even greater than ongoing operations — that the global financial crisis and cuts in defense outlays will fall disproportionately on what makes NATO strong.
Some analysts do not believe it is worth appeasing Trump's "bullying". Europe's new efforts to beef up its own defense outlays will never satisfy the president, they argue.
One cannot ignore the possibility that someone out there is a country that would view an additional 30,000 man reduction in the size of the US army as just the opening they need to seek military domination against a nation that is responsible for nearly 40% of all global defense outlays and spends as much on its armed forces as the next 13 nations combined.
Even with U.S. troops expected to leave Iraq by 2011, defense outlays wont shrink much right away.
Given this situation, Congress is quite likely to trade off more modest cuts in domestic spending for a smaller rise in regular fiscal 2006 defense outlays.
This is no spending "cut". Even after the sequester, the federal government in 2013 will spend 30% more than in 2007; outlays on non-defense discretionary programs will be 19% higher, while defense outlays will be 14% higher.
