Sentence examples for quadrennial from inspiring English sources
Mr Cohen has now sent this "quadrennial defence review" (QDR) to Congress, which wants one (as the name implies) every four years.Predictably, a review managed by Pentagon officials and service chiefs avoids radical thinking.
The quadrennial effects of 2008 will mainly benefit television and newspapers.
Everybody knows the quadrennial presidential nomination conventions have become a tiny bit of official business and a whole lot of partying.
But as booming China has begun to close the spigot to safeguard its own supplies, Japan, the world's second biggest economy, has been forced to look elsewhere for an alternative source in Africa.On May 28th it hosted the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, a quadrennial event since 1993.
The latest generation of digital presses showcased at Drupa, the printing industry's quadrennial extravaganza in Dusseldorf, highlight the strides already taken.Xerox, the leading maker, with over half the market for digital colour printing, upped the ante with its latest generation of its high-end presses, the iGen4.
But, although Vice-President Al Gore stood by Mr Cohen's side, keen to show White House support, these plans will be extremely hard to implement.Mr Cohen's announcement was based on the work of a task-force he established as a follow-up to last May's "quadrennial defence review" (QDR).
And he must do so even as America's changing strategic priorities Mr Obama's partial winding down of the "war on terror" and the new emphasis on "rebalancing" towards Asia require a different kind of military.By next year the Pentagon must deliver its Quadrennial Defence Review (QDR).
And if he was in a mood for lashing out at China, why did this not show in the Defence Department's latest Quadrennial Defence Review, released on February 1st Compared with the last such document issued in 2006 under the Bush administration, this one (see article) dwells far less on the danger posed by China's rise.
Over the next few weeks the conclusions of 20 or so inquiry groups will be fed into the Quadrennial Defence Review.
Military casualties in Iraq are carefully recorded, but there are no firm figures for security contractors, though hundreds have died.This year's Quadrennial Defence Review treats private contractors as an integral part of the "total force" at America's disposal.
His recent Quadrennial Defence Review confessed that "victory in the long war depends on strategic communication" and even issued a plea for "considerably improved language and cultural awareness".
