Sentence examples for half the defence from inspiring English sources

The current government has promised a 1% rise in spending on equipment from 2015 - which takes up half the defence budget - but there is no such promise regarding manpower, which has gone down steadily in all three services since 2010.

Flores's side cut through Liverpool's rearguard too easily in the first half, although the defence received little protection in midfield.

However, about half of the defence department's 800,000 civilian employees stopped work at the beginning of the shutdown - with the exception of those engaged in activities that "provide for the national security".

Even when Northampton did enjoy a period of possession in the final few minutes of the first half, the Wasps defence held impressively firm.

Cueto's inside pass to Hodgson saw the former England fly-half bemuse the defence before passing inside to Seymour.

After a first half where the defences were on top, the second saw several clear-cut chances with Jordan Henderson side-footing wide from eight yards after cute link-up play between Suarez and Sturridge, before Kagawa hit the crossbar after turning past Lucas.

In 1967, Israel's defence spending was less than half the combined defence expenditure of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria.

Scholes gained possession midway inside the Romanian half and caught the defence moving up too late with a lob which Owen touched past the advancing Bogdan Stelea and tapped into the net.

He picked the ball up midway inside the Aberdeen half and, with the defence standing off him, fired a shot from the edge of the box, with McDonald applying a crucial touch to divert the ball past Langfield and into the net.

"Most of the victims are under the rubble because more than half the civil defence has been forced out of service".

69 Bit of a tangle in the Costa Rica area following a Chinese corner, Li Weifeng guilty of dithering with the ball after a couple of deflections had left him with half a sight of goal, albeit with half the Costa Rica defence in the way.