Sentence examples for gross defense from inspiring English sources

At one point her boyfriend, the producer Hot Sugar, took a water bottle, rubbed it against his crotch under his pants, and threw it at the boors in the crowd, a mild, gross defense.

The country would spend 4% of its gross domestic product on defense.

Only 2.3 percent of Pakistan's 2012-13 budget is allocated to education, compared with 18.4 percent of gross domestic product for defense.

Yet alliance members, he noted, were far from reaching their spending commitments, with only 5 of 28 having reached the established target: 2 percent of gross domestic product for defense.

In 2008, only five NATO members met a target of spending a minimum of 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense; one of them, Greece, is in deep difficulty over its debts.

Speaking at a meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Prague, Mr. Rasmussen added that among the European allies, "only two devoted more than 2 percent of the gross domestic product to defense".

Brazil spent a lower proportion of its gross domestic product on defense in 2006 than four of its South American neighbors — Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Colombia — according to the Security and Defense Network of Latin America, a research group based in Buenos Aires.

Mrs. May pledged that Britain would keep its commitment to spend not only 2percentt of gross domestic product on defense, a NATO target, but also 0.7percentt of G.D.P. on development aid, which is more than most countries spend.

While the United States is set to spend about 3.7percentt of its gross domestic product on defense this year, spending by about half the alliance's European members has dropped below 2percentt of gross domestic product, barely the level that the United States expects new applicants for membership to meet.

Isaac held a yellow legal pad but hardly referred to it, as he ticked off facts: foreign aid is about 1 percent of the federal budget; much of Israel's $3.1 billion is spent on contracts with United States companies; Israel spends 8 percent of its gross domestic product on defense.

Estonia's then President Toomas Hendrik Ilves responded with a tweet saying that Estonia was one of only five members of NATO to meet its guidelines of spending at least 2percentt of gross domestic product on defense.