Sentence examples for standing defence from inspiring English sources

David Cameron's policy taskforce on security recommends the creation of a dedicated HQ and standing defence force to mop up after calamities like this summer's flooding, as well as the creation of a standalone department of energy to focus on domestic energy security.

It was cleared on 6 February 2014, and details the standing defence instructions for the reporting and management of notifiable incidents, including for a "quick assessment" (QA).

Following the end of World War II, however, the decision was made to establish a permanent standing defence force and the role of Reserve forces was reduced to the point where for a while their relevance was called into question.

The prime minister should be standing in defence of the basic principles of freedom, democracy and human rights," a senior Labour source said.

Earlier on Tuesday at the large arms fair (official title, DSEi, standing for Defence and Security Equipment International, in London's Extel centre in the docklands), the first sea lord, Admiral Sir George Zambellas, said two large new aircraft carriers being built for the navy would provide Britain with the "full range of diplomatic, political, and military, options".

Not only does India have long-standing defence and other ties with Russia, its relations with America are rather tetchy at present.

Indian officials and soldiers grumble that the long-standing defence relationship with Russia has been soured by its sales of overpriced and unreliable kit.

They share the world's longest undefended border, business and trade are highly integrated, and they have a long-standing defence relationship.

In the late 1970s and the 1980s, stimulated by results from mathematical logic and by some ideas of Quine, Putnam abandoned his long-standing defence of metaphysical realism the view that the categories and structures of the external world are both causally and ontologically independent of the conceptualizations of the human mind.

74 min England are out of ideas here, Australia's defence standing firm against some pretty predictable waves of attack.

Yet instead of standing firm in defence of a cherished cause, politicians united in a depressing display of illiberalism by meekly caving in to the crowd.