Sentence examples for small defence from inspiring English sources

In a place so far away from Iraq, with a small defence force already stretched by regional commitments, the deployment has caused great controversy.

A new small defence purchasing agency should be set up on commercial lines to take charge of all the equipment contracts for all three services.

We're not in the business of reducing competition".Despite evidence that penalties are still too small, defence lawyers complain that the authorities cause alleged cartelists unnecessary pain by applying antitrust laws extraterritorially.

John Roos, a retired US Army colonel in Newport News, Virginia, recently observed a night-time test of an infra-red "stealth" poncho developed by AAE, a small defence contractor based in Fullerton, California.

This is to come mostly from the company's systems for improving security at airports and from its continuing purchase of small defence suppliers.BAE, for its part, is being allowed unique access (for a foreign company) to the American defence market.

Mike Burns, the president of MSE, a small defence contractor in Billerica, Massachusetts, says stealth bombers have indeed been detected against backgrounds of mobile-phone radiation because "a hole" appears in the constant chatter of signals.This technique can be used only in populated areas, with lots of mobile phones.

We hypothesized that genes under the control of CBP60g and SARD1 could be identified by mining public gene expression data for genes co-expressed with the 45 genes whose expression was found to be suppressed in cbp60g, sard1 or cbp60g sard1 mutant plants using a small defence-related custom microarray (GEO: GSE18865 [ 20]).

Europe has ten much smaller defence firms fighting over a smaller cake; they are outclassed by the Americans in export markets.

His American rival Boeing, he pointed out, also emphasises its civil not its military work these days.Maybe smaller defence businesses have some advantages.

LAST week it emerged that BAE Systems, Europe's biggest defence firm, and EADS, the owner of Airbus and a smaller defence business, were mooting a €38 billion ($50 billion) merger.

But when Britain's BAE Systems, Europe's biggest defence firm, and EADS, the Franco-German maker of Airbus civil jets and the owner of some smaller defence businesses, announced their intention to merge a month ago, managers of both firms were optimistic.