Sentence examples for not even defence from inspiring English sources

Whitehall budget battles between the Treasury and individual departments were often hard fought, but as the former chancellor Nigel Lawson approvingly recalled on Sunday, no departmental budget was sacrosanct, not even defence or the Home Office, and certainly not health.

It dates from the Brian Reilly and Dean Williams case of 2006, when mitigating factors not even proffered by the defence were taken into account at sentencing.

The generals have not even spared their own: defence spending has been frozen at about 130 billion rupees, despite a 36% jump in the nominal military budget of Pakistan's main adversary, India, in the past two years.

Yet the attacks on New York and Washington also showed that not even the world's largest defence budget can buy insulation from the world's demons any more.

What had begun as a presumed Portillo coronation ended up with the former defence secretary not even making the final two.

An opposing defence could not even contemplate relaxing while he was on the field, whether it was 22 seconds into the second half of a World Cup semi-final or in the 89th minute of his final game for Barcelona.

United's very pursuit of Bale last summer underlined an internal chaos of their own: a club now determined to go out and buy a marquee signing in each summer transfer window, yet lacking so much as a serviceable defence and not even sure whether the Welshman would go the same way as the last player they paid out a huge sum to Real for: Angel Di Maria.

There are some themes that are not even covered, e.g. transport, defence, the environment or social issues.

Well-placed sources cite one instance where they say a consignment of 67 armoured Humvees sent for the army by the United Arab Emirates were diverted to the militias, with the defence minister not even knowing about it.

Charlotte Edwards's side were again fancied to lift the World Cup in India in February, but narrow defeats by minnows Sri Lanka and Australia ensured their title defence did not even stretch to the final - a poor return for perhaps the best-resourced women's team on the planet.

It has not even been contested by Mr Taylor's defence team.