Sentence examples for service defense from inspiring English sources

This assembly was to have significant financial and revenue powers; but a number of important executive functions, such as management of the public service, defense, foreign affairs, and the administration of justice, were to be performed by three British officials nominated by the governor of Ceylon.

"The Latitude XT2 XFR is more than a laptop, it's a key part of our mobile command and data-center solutions for field service, defense and first-responder customers," said Paul Bell, president, Dell Global Public-Sector Business.

This means severe cuts to education, the creaky national health service, defense, welfare, pensions, farming, railroads, and other politically popular programs.

But in a reflection of a desire to have stronger leadership at the Army in the midst of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, strains on Army forces worldwide and a major restructuring of the service, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is nearing a decision to recommend that President Bush select Mr. Harvey for the job, officials said.

In addition, these museums are required to compete for funds against such traditional public expenditures as education, social services, defense, and law and order, and in consequence museums often are given low priority.

Meanwhile, the military phrase was being used as a synonym for what Dwight Eisenhower, in his 1961 farewell, called "the military-industrial complex" -- that is, the military services, defense contractors and members of Congress busy at the pork barrel.

Mr. Gallois said EADS is looking particularly in the area of services, defense and security and has a "target list" that had included DRS Technologies, a company being purchased by Italy's Finmeccanica SpA, Bloomberg reported.

Its Defense & Government Services unit is the public sector arm of Agility that provides supply chain management, logistics services and commodity services to defense and government customers.

Two years before he returned to public service as defense secretary, Mr. Rumsfeld was the commission chairman, and Dr. Cambone was his staff director.

The Comanche was a relatively easy program to kill because it had only limited support among military service chiefs, defense contractors and Congressional appropriators.

The Bahamian military had been unable to conduct air searches for the boat, a 40-foot sloop dangerously packed with immigrants, because all three of its planes were out of service, a defense spokesman said.