Sentence examples for how much defence from inspiring English sources

The chart below gives a sense of how much defence spending has changed relative to economic performance in the past decade for 116 countries and territories for which data are available.

He may relish the chance to cut defence spending and blame the Republicans for it.The likeliest outcome is therefore neither a sudden, history-altering reduction in defence spending, nor a quick fix that lets Congress wriggle out of its trap, but a drawn-out and perhaps salutary election-year debate about how much defence to buy at a time of distress.

It knows that if and when members of Japan's "self-defence forces" (SDF) do get caught up in skirmishes, Japanese voters will suddenly take much more notice of just how much defence policy has been changing.The SDF have been sent on peacekeeping missions before, such as to Cambodia in 1992 and East Timor in 2002.

"I wonder how much our defence is suffering from Anthar Yahia's absence.

But the programme for a "Joint Strike Fighter JSFshowshows how much American defence philosophy is changing.The programme aims to achieve huge economies of scale by producing a single aircraft, with variations, for America's Air Force, Navy and Marines as well as Britain's Royal Navy.

My own colleague mulled the "terrible swift sword" falling on defence last week, much like the rest of the media.So by how much will the defence budget decline over the next decade?

This is, of course, nothing new, given how much of our defence and nuclear work is already outsourced to US engineers such as  Bechtel and Aecom.

While the National Gallery responded within weeks to a request concerning how much the Italian defence company Finmeccanica sponsor them, the Tate are holding out.

No less delicate is the question of how much intelligence and defence-industrial expertise the European partners will share with one another.

It was only after the Khartoum government became oil-rich enough to equip its army properly that it realised it had to make terms with the south: no matter how much was thrown at defence, the oilfields were never going to be controllable by force of arms.The terms of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 included a 50-50 split of oil revenues between the north and the south, until 2011.

"Beyond what Leo did in attack, look at what how much he ran in defence".