Still, he was also an old-fashioned conservative who believed in valor and sacrifice and the defense of the realm.
Although he was criticized for using troops needed for the defense of the realm to crush a peasant revolt in Lorraine, he gained the reputation of being a champion of religious and social orthodoxy, and in 1527 Francis I acknowledged his services by enlarging his estates and creating him duke and peer, a dignity hitherto reserved to princes of the blood.
Rather than raising direct taxes to pay for the defense of the realm, the government is effectively paying for it by indirect taxation," Jackson tells me.
The proposed amendment to the state secrets law, reported Tuesday by the state news media, defines a state secret broadly and loosely as information that, if disclosed, would damage China's security or interests in political, economic, defense and other realms.
Civil defense in the biological realm means improving the public health system.
It's a clear-cut defense of the public realm, something we could use more of in this age of corporate privatization.
Finally in the realm of defense, we hope our relationship is not merely a buyer-seller relationship, but a true strategic partnership involving joint research, manufacture of equipment, training of personnel and military exercises.
His mind/body distinction, Shorto notes, has long been invoked in defense of "an eternal realm of thought, belief and ideals that can't be touched by the prying fingers of science".
WASHINGTON — One of the most specific campaign promises Mitt Romney has made in the realm of defense policy is to increase the Navy's shipbuilding program to 15 vessels each year from 9 or 10, enough to significantly increase the size of a fleet that has been straining to meet its global missions.
