Sentence examples for mandatory defence cuts from inspiring English sources

Mandatory defence cuts were designed to scare the Republicans; mandatory cuts in other programmes were supposed to scare the Democrats.

Jeff Miller, who chairs the House Veterans Affairs Committee, says he and veterans' organisations are "in a position of defence" against any potential cuts, and says he worries about the effects of the big and supposedly mandatory defence cuts occasioned by the supercommittee's failure last month to reach agreement on the deficit.

What about defence cuts today?

Parker's last mandatory defence was against Hughie Fury in Manchester last September.

Neo-cons are allergic to talk of defence cuts.

Klitschko faces a mandatory defence next against our own Tyson Fury, who might just be the man to pierce the armour.

Defence cuts: will the US now give up on us?

"The sort of defence cuts we have seen.

Oppose Defence cuts!" Do they really not see the connection?

After Chagaev, Klitschko has a mandatory defence against Povetkin, followed by the winner of Chambers-Dimitrenko. Vitali, meanwhile, meets the WBC this week to try to postpone – or abandon – a mandatory challenge from the boring, tried-before Oleg Maskaev.

The former chief whip has fought a vigorous campaign against any further defence cuts since become defence secretary in November.