Sentence examples for told defence from inspiring English sources

"Any fight with China would be a largely maritime and air fight," he told defence writers in Washington.

Mas declined to answer questions from the prosecution on Monday morning, but told defence lawyers he was responsible for planning and driving the referendum.

Hutton told defence journalists that he was revealing "behind the scenes discussions" with Nato partners because they had come up with nothing.

Tempers were also frayed when on November 11th Judge Augustine Paul told defence lawyers to stop trying to prove Mr Anwar was the victim of trumped-up charges and refrain from cross-examination in support of their conspiracy argument.

It has told defence manufacturers it wants their help to develop drones "to provide greater support to maritime operations such as mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare and missile defence".

But an inquiry is being launched into why the Forensic Science Service wrongly told defence lawyers acting for him in 1998 that exhibits in the inquiry had been destroyed.

The Labour leader has long opposed nuclear weapons and said last month that he would tell defence chiefs never to use the Trident nuclear weapons system if he became prime minister.

The government on Wednesday publicly intervened in business dealings with Russia for the first time since the escalation of the crisis by telling defence contractor Rheinmetall to halt delivery of combat simulation gear to Russia.

Lt Gen Gordon Messenger, the deputy chief of the defence staff, told the defence select committee that national security concerns meant he could not say whether any of the 70,000 fighters were members of the Islamic Front and Ahrar al-Sham.

Pistorius says he told his defence counsel, but they left it out.

Andrew Neil, the debate's moderator, told the defence secretary that he was failing to answer the question.