Sentence examples for pursuing defence from inspiring English sources

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A loose pass by Porto's Dmitri Alenitchev put Ruud van Nistelrooy clear but, under pressure from a pursuing defence, his control faltered and Vitor Baia saved at the Dutchman's feet.

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Mr Cameron has criticised European countries such as France which are continuing to pursue defence sales to Russia despite Moscow's backing for the separatists.

Downing Street said "urgent options" are being pursued by defence and transport planners to create alternative parking zones to alleviate the pressure in Kent.

As with his big tax cut earlier in the year, the president has pursued missile defence so adamantly, and from such a maximalist position, that he has succeeded in shifting the terms of the debate.

But the chief cabinet secretary, Hiroyuki Hosoda, said the government would make exceptions to pursue missile defence with Washington because of the contribution this would make to their security alliance and Japan's own security.

Another cavil was that if a country like Iran did build a nuclear bomb, it might smuggle it in, say, an anonymous shipping container rather than using a missile that would have an obvious return address and invite retaliation.Nevertheless, the Bush administration vigorously pursued missile defence, withdrawing from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002.

Weston had argued that the public purse should not pay "rich" MPs for the legal appeals over the parliamentary privilege issues because the costs incurred "flow" from the defendant's criminal conduct, and also it was their "choice to pursue" that defence.

If males pursue resource defence as a mating strategy, pairs should emerge whenever males are unable to maintain territories that can support more than one female.

Both have been cited before as the main justification for pursuing the missile defence project, known as "Son of Star Wars", and by focusing attention on them once more, Mr Bush implied that the missile shield was still central to national security.

So Israel is indeed ferociously single-minded in pursuing its self-defence within the region.

One of the criteria for pursuing this line of defence would have been proving that the download subsequently boosted, rather than undermined, the commercial viability of the anime industry.

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