Sentence examples for to be defence from inspiring English sources

In a report, China's new Spratly island defences, the AMTI said its analysts had identified what appeared to be defence "fortifications" on Fiery Cross, Mischief and Subi reefs.

Peter's Bagehot column on the death of Alan Clark, a British politician, diarist and amoralist, from September 1999:"As a romantic nationalist, former soldier and serious military historian, Alan Clark wanted to be defence secretary just as desperately as a little boy craves a train set.

He was perfectly happy to serve as the member for Warringah, he insisted, but – when asked whether he would like to be defence minister, as has been widely reported, he replied "all sorts of things might happen in the future, but right now you've got to be content with serving your electorate".

He is also likely to be defence minister, reported The Bangkok Post.

Meanwhile, BBC Berkshire understands Justin Bishop will cease to be defence coach for the Exiles at the end of the season.

Shall we just... could we... put guns... on tractors?" Never knew the ministry of defence was the sort of blue-sky thinking, there-are-no-bad-ideas-just-run-it-up-the-flagpole kind of modern workspace, but if the implication is that Williamson doesn't have the command of detail needed to be defence minister, then that's totally unfair.

"It is going to be attack-defence, attack-defence rather than attack-versus-defence, which it has been," he said.

Engineered coastal defences are thus found to be small defence against highly energetic tsunami waves that overtop them.

Next week, the one to watch for is defence spending.

William Lynn, a lobbyist for Raytheon, a firm that makes missiles, is to be deputy defence secretary.

Because of the timing and vagueness Wong's statement, many initially considered it to be a defence of the ban.