Sentence examples for spend on defense from inspiring English sources
"You spend, I think, five times as much subsidizing the waste of gas as most European countries spend on defense.
How much do they spend on defense?
I can understand the U.S. attitude: Europe is at peace and reluctant to spend on defense.
We spend a fraction of what all your allies in the region spend on defense.
That last number is less than we currently spend on defense alone; it's not much bigger than federal spending when Calvin Coolidge was president, and the United States, among other things, had only a tiny military establishment.
"I believe that we need to have a broad public discussion about what we should spend on defense," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday.
"Because of what seems to be a drafting error, not one extra dollar can be spent on defense above the sequestration caps".
It is hard to think of money that has ever been better spent on defense.
Within the higher-income countries there are notable differences in the amounts spent on defense.
They would prefer to see their tax dollars spent on defense.
While it is unclear precisely how much China spends on defense, Japan spent $47 billion on defense in 2002, according to the Center for Defense Information.
