Sentence examples for fund defence from inspiring English sources
The Tories have come under sustained criticisms for failing to fund defence spending properly.
Dicing with death, Philip Hammond may get his way, cutting health and education to fund defence – not popular.
The biggest mistake, of course, happened many years ago – BAE's sale of its 20% stake in Airbus in 2006 to fund defence expansion in the US.
If Britain is to punch its weight on the international stage, it is essential both to fund defence properly and to maintain our internationally respected pledge to spend 0.7% of national income on aid to help the world's poorest people.
1.44pm BST Sarah Johnson writes George Eaten has written a blogpost for The New Statesman saying that cutting the NHS to fund defence is bad politics and bad policy.
"If Britain is to punch above its weight on the international stage, it is essential both to fund defence properly and to maintain our internationally respected pledge to spend 0.7% of national income on aid to help the world's poorest people," wrote eight military leaders in a letter to the Observer in 2013.
The Yorkshire Post is rightly fuming at the apparent north-south divide in flood defence funding (Leeds' flood defence plans were put on hold in 2011, while £297m was found last December to fund defences in the Thames Valley).
The Centre for Naval Analyses (CNA), a federally funded defence outfit, has created half a dozen new ones in the past two years.
The EA also advised caution about a plan to highlight newly funded defence schemes: "The number of new starts to be announced in February will be very small as most of the money is committed to in-going projects.
"It is vital that the right to an effective, publicly funded defence system is protected in order to prevent the risk of a sharp increase in miscarriages of justice.
Shahzad, 30, spoke only once during the hearing to confirm the details in a financial form he had filled out to qualify for a publicly funded defence lawyer, while his lawyer requested he be served halal food in prison with halal food.
