Sentence examples for supposed defence from inspiring English sources

Supposed defence spending may now consume close to half the national budget.

One supposed defence would have two arms - the story was factually accurate and it served the wider public interest (about the system of justice needing to operate in the public spotlight).

"Well, I suppose my defence would be that I wanted to see what it felt like for once in my life to be hypocritical," she says.

Assuming that the accusations of large-scale misuse of defence-ministry funds are correct, it raises doubt about the efficacy of the parliamentary oversight committee that is supposed to scrutinise defence spending: all four members of that committee are from Mr Saakashvili's National Movement.

These were supposed to shrink the defence budget by 8%, but thanks to a historic shortfall of £45.6 billion in the kit budget and a decision to shift responsibility for maintaining Britain's nuclear weapons to the defence ministry, the squeeze has been closer to 25%.

This was supposed to mean matching defences at the level rendered necessary by the Warsaw Pact's offensive capabilities without spurring a further arms race.

A defence which was supposed to be the Seahawks' strength has given up 264 rushing yards in the last two weeks.

Reaching out to the Pakistani military and sidelining his own defence chiefs, was supposed to bring to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table and end the violence.

To mitigate his client's supposed paranoia, Mr McVeigh's defence lawyer is said to have prepared still more paranoid theories.

He was supposed to make the third defence of his WBO belt against Liam Walsh last December only for the Englishman to be injured in a car crash.

Eight hundred metres to the west was a Stop Line, a continuous trench system from which the defenders were supposed to wage an active defence, staging local counterattacks.