Sentence examples for for its defence from inspiring English sources

Although Mr Bush has been a strong supporter of Taiwan agreeing to sell it advanced weaponry for its defence, and loosening tight restrictions on visiting politicians, including Mr Chen he has also called on Taiwan not to take any actions unilaterally to change the status quo and so risk a conflict in the Taiwan Strait.

After awesome demonstrations of American firepower, in Operation Desert Storm in the first Gulf war, and then in 1996, when the United States sailed two carrier strike groups close to Taiwan to deter Chinese aggression, China felt that it could no longer depend on sheer manpower for its defence.

The Falklands are internally self-governing, but Britain is responsible for its defence and foreign affairs.

It was beholden to America's goodwill and the crumbling might of the former colonial power, Britain, for its defence.

A year ago, Bath lost to Saracens in the final after trying to take them game to a team renowned for its defence and making mistakes.

Following its defeat in 1945 and its adoption of a pacifist constitution, Japan became wholly dependent on the US for its defence.

FOR a president who a year ago set himself the laudable aim of reducing America's reliance on nuclear weapons for its defences, George Bush has generated a lot of angry fallout.

Its stock of savings is diminishing, and though it is riddled with misgivings about the presence of American troops in Japan so long after the second world war, it can hardly pay for its own defence.

In an opinion piece for CNN, the former US secretary of defence William Cohen echoed current American thinking: that it is time that Japan took more responsibility for its own defence.

It has turned for help in its defence to Marty Lipton, a founding partner at the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and a leading source of advice on how management should defend itself from hostile attacks.The Disney board may eventually have to confront two tough questions.

It could help Europe to do more for its own defence and spend its money more efficiently (ie, less nationalistically).More detail about both the commercial logic of combining BAE and EADS and how the overlapping political circles are to be squared will emerge after October 10th.