Sentence examples for rational defence from inspiring English sources

"I can't make a rational defence," he conceded.

A rational defence review would oblige the RAF to face the reality that it needs a very small number of high-altitude interceptors and a modest force of ground-support aircraft.

In contrast with the Cartesian rational defence of the reliability of our cognitive faculties, Regius claimed that one must rely on Scripture for this purpose (Regius 1646, 249).

He has been reminded how hard it is to build a more rational European defence industry.

He called for a more "rational" approach to defence spending and urged Prime Minister David Cameron to sack Mr Hammond and "get somebody who knows what they are doing to look after the forces".

But what is rational in terms of defence accounting too often falls foul of political and operational reality.

But, although the play is clearly intended as a defence of rational discourse and an attack on a profit-obsessed modern world, it lacks the vital Aristophanic vigour.

No one this side of death really knows.A successful defence of rational suicide lies in a more subtle argument often used by those advocating voluntary euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally ill.

"The Ministry of Defence is being led by the nose by the Treasury towards reductions in Britain's armed forces which have no rational basis," Lib Dem defence spokesman Menzies Campbell said in August 1991.

Given that Saddam's only rational strategy will be urban defence, we should expect the war to result in massive overkill and unwarranted damage.

Thanos Dokos, a leading Greek defence expert, says rational debate on such military extravagance has been made impossible by the supposed Turkish threat and a fear among politicians of being labelled unpatriotic.