Sentence examples for massive defence from inspiring English sources

Part of the cause of the big Reagan deficit – and the one that followed under Bush – was massive defence spending.

"The military has some excellent niche capabilities, but it doesn't yet reflect the country's massive defence budget," says Emile Hokayem of IISS, a think-tank.

After the government's announcement this week on massive defence cuts nobody can dispute that the Ministry of Defence's core budget is being raided to pay for current operations.

Thankfully, it is a deeply unpopular impulse, with substantial majorities calling for an end to foreign military adventures and massive defence spending.

"The military has some excellent niche capabilities, but it doesn't yet reflect the country's massive defence budget," says Emile Hokayem of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a British-based think-tank.

But he's also banking on support from Tea Party conservatives like libertarian Ron Paul and former House speaker Dick Armey who've broken ranks with mainstream Republicans over the need for foreign intervention and massive defence spending.

And, not coincidentally perhaps, massive civil defence exercises were held inside Russia, in apparent preparation for a nuclear war.

The SEAD campaign was halted, but although the IAF possessed no operational answer to the massive air defence array forming west of the Canal, it nevertheless still enjoyed supremacy in the air-ro-air arena.

Apart from massive underground defences, observers note what looks like a long underground escape tunnel leading to the Thames.

However, the massive British-supported defence programme was also crucial.

"It felt like we never really had control and we couldn't find any rhythm, but we showed massive character in defence, and that's what got us through.