Sentence examples for slashed defense from inspiring English sources
Greece met it, even though it has slashed defense spending, because its economy collapsed.
The US economic recovery juddered to a halt in the final months of 2012 as government slashed defense spending, businesses cut back, and Washington fought over the fiscal cliff budget crisis.
It is amusing that the Obama administration latched on to part Bob's thesis — that America remains a great power — but failed to grasp that Bob's book is in many aspects an implicitly damning takedown of an administration that has tried not to lead, slashed defense spending, excessively relied on multilateral institutions and failed to formulate a coherent policy on democracy promotion.
Reduced levels of military spending have slashed defense spending for prime contracts in the Valley area by 16% since 1989--a 1989--a 1989--a milossns of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs (A1)...
To date, the politicians have predictably voted to slash defense.
Britain and France, which are slashing defense spending, last year took the lead in sharing resources, followed by the Nordic countries.
Anti-military sentiment was running high in the wake of the Vietnam War and President Carter had been swept into office vowing to slash defense spending.
Europe is also slashing defense budgets, so NATO "smart-defense" efforts to share weapons will need to be put on steroids.
As Bob Woodward's latest book reveals, the Obama administration devised the measure last year to include across-the-board defense cuts because it believed that slashing defense was so unthinkable that it would make compromise inevitable.
If a Democratic president is going to slash defense, he probably wants a Republican at the Pentagon to give him political cover, and he probably wants a decorated war hero to boot.
You can't pretend to strut your stuff as Europe and at the same time slash defense budgets to the point that, a couple of months into a military operation, you find yourself running out of jet fuel and munitions.
