Sentence examples for rearmament from inspiring English sources

When it fell in 1895, it was on the same rearmament budgetary issues that had prompted the old boy (by then 84) to step down as prime minister the previous year.

Just before the second world war, with rearmament consuming vast government expenditures, estate duty contributed almost 15% of total tax raised, compared with less than 2% today.

It has started compelling us to devote our energies to rearmament, our leisure to drilling, our income to taxes; it has cast over our lives the shadow of doom.

Spooked by the revival of its age-old enemy, Warsaw has embarked on a $30 billion decade-long rearmament programme, one of the most ambitious in NATO.

You might have mentioned its single most elaborate economic project, a multi-billion rearmament plan.

ON TUESDAY March 17th, Russia announced that it would begin a comprehensive rearmament in response to the advance of NATO into parts of the former Soviet Union.

They can settle for a controlled opening, perhaps under international inspection, that would hinder rearmament but relieve ordinary Gazans.

That would provide the Palestinians with some access to international trade, and offer Israel some guarantees against Hamas's rearmament.

Russia may brag about rearmament, but no real military threat is in sight.

This made it competitive with air travel, an industry which Japan had eschewed after the second world war, to avoid inadvertently stoking fears of rearmament.

Even the exceptions, such as one in 1935, which pitted Conservative rearmament against Labour pacifism, and 1983, in which Margaret Thatcher soared on the back of the Falklands war, were mainly about domestic issues.