Sentence examples for levels of defence from inspiring English sources

"The argument is that if you have a flu outbreak, you could raise general levels of defence.

Wall told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend: "We military folk would like to see manifesto commitments to levels of defence expenditure and it's of concern to us that all parties would probably be content to have this conversation not happening at the moment.

Even in the waters and skies close to Mr Papandreou's cheerful summer symposium, there were Greek and Turkish ships and aircraft keeping a careful eye on each other's movements.Armed to the teethA residual fear of Turkey is the main reason why Greece maintains one of the highest levels of defence spending per person in NATO (see chart 3).

The end of compulsory training, coupled with low levels of defence spending and economic hardships brought about by the Great Depression greatly reduced the manpower available to many Militia units at this time and as a result a number of units were disbanded or amalgamated at this time.

In calculating Pa, we make the assumption that general conspicuousness increases the assessment period and that this gives increased protection to prey with certain levels of defence (Figure 1).

These antioxidative protective mechanisms can be divided into three levels of defence [ 38].

But people still use the internet every day, though the ones who consider themselves street smart do so with varying levels of defences installed.

We found significantly lower levels of defence-related enzymatic activities, gene expression and disease resistance in the leaves of 'receiver' plants in treatment C than those in treatment A, although both neighbouring 'donor' plants in treatment A and C were inoculated with the pathogen.

The expression profiles for the extract- and PEA-treated samples were similar to that found for yeast (sharing 57.4 % DEGs), with a significant increase in the transcript levels of defence-related genes.

If this hypothesis is correct, the result would be greater consumption of the smaller, slower growing seedlings that had lower levels of defences or less volatile emission.

This is despite that fact that the levels of defences in these plants were such that they could have deterred the slugs (Fritz et al., 2001).