Sentence examples for permanent defense from inspiring English sources

The investigation complicates what is already an uphill battle for Mr. Shanahan's effort to become the next permanent defense secretary.

Because it is supposed to last as long as it takes to become obsolescent, the tank becomes part of the country's permanent defense capability.

He became chairman of the permanent defense organization of the Western European Union (1948 51) and then deputy commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers in Europe (1951 58).

Running this worldwide campaign required a large and permanent defense establishment and the creation of a whole new set of executive branch institutions like the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council.

The fact that certain modern fortresses had held out against German artillery during World War I, as well as the admitted saving in military manpower, induced France to build the celebrated Maginot Line as a permanent defense against German attack.

We must avoid being on permanent defense.

All this is being done even though plans to build permanent defenses from floodwaters have yet to be financed.

Furthermore, he established permanent defenses against the Viking invaders by creating two naval bases, one facing the Atlantic at Sevilla and another on the Mediterranean shore at Pechina near Almería.

It was this weakness that the Germans subsequently exploited in executing a modified version of the Schlieffen plan, cutting in behind the permanent defenses and defeating France without having to come to grips with the Maginot Line.

— Special duty making maneuver map of Crow Creek Forest and Maneuver Reservation; at Engineer School, Washington Barracks, D. C., Oct., 1906 to Jul. 1907; local charge of permanent defenses, Subic Bay, Sept., 1907 to date; additional local charge of defenses, Carabao Island, Manila Bay, Jan., 1909 to –––––.

While permanent defenses evolve under constant predation pressure, inducible defenses are adaptations to heterogeneity in predation risk [ 1] and likely evolved under divergent selection regimes.