Sentence examples for high defence from inspiring English sources

He was an unremittingly traditional leftwinger, a fierce critic of high defence expenditure, the hereditary membership of the House of Lords and the establishment of academy schools.

In one case, Australian Super Hornets pulled out of an air strike on an Isis target when the risk of killing civilians became too high, defence officials said at a media briefing on Wednesday.

Their front four continues to look wonderful but they were given a helping hand by Valladolid's now familiar and very risky high defence – one that means they'll surely get hammered a handful of times this season.

For semi-fossorial mammals, the morphology and complexity of burrows have high defence value for nestlings and thereby fulfil an anti-predator function, especially for animals with helpless altricial young [ 24, 43].

Have a minimum of two high defence units in your city at all times (if you in warlord or above), as they declare war very easily in the higher tiers.

Higher defence spending put pressure on an ossifying Soviet economy.

Last month Angela Merkel made the first, cautious signals in the direction of a higher defence budget at the inaugural visit of the new Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg.

Of the few politicians who have said anything publicly, many have simply called for higher defence spending.The most prominent exception has been Boris Nemtsov, a liberal politician.

Hugh Gaitskell's chancellorship (1950-51) was brief, but he certainly made his mark by providing the pretext for the resignation of Nye Bevan (and others) over higher defence spending and the introduction of charges for spectacles and false teeth.

"The trend towards reassurance and higher defence expenditure in Eastern Europe is quite an important reversal... but all the indications are that Nato will up supply of equipment without any real possibility of basing out there in Eastern Europe".

The chancellor's bigger concern will be about longer-term pressures for higher defence spending once the war is over.Mr Brown had already budgeted for an extra £1 billion ($1.6 billion) and he has now set aside another £2 billion.