Sentence examples for took defence from inspiring English sources
He said that extra troops would signify that the UK took "defence and security seriously".
Cameron, who takes defence seriously, seeks to avoid past errors.
Asked what measures Turkey would now take, Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz told reporters: "Don't expect any immediate steps".
It will be slow incremental progress but Europe, under Anglo-French leadership, is taking defence and foreign policy seriously.
European countries that take defence seriously are busy elsewhere (Britain is sending no troops to this mission, Germany is sending lots of money).
But taking defence contractors with him to the Gulf invited mockery: a cover in Private Eye has him offering a two-for-one deal on tear gas and armoured cars and being invited to throw in his wife as well.The conversions from realism to idealism are not wholly convincing.
Take Defence Against the Dark Arts.
He said of his defense: "The Part I took in Defence of Cptn.
The case was promptly dropped in circumstances that took my defence team entirely by surprise.
Mr Scharping took over defence barely a year ago on one condition: that funds would not be slashed at least until a committee pondering a new armed-forces structure had finished its work, probably in 2000.
Jonny Sexton kicked out to the right wing where Andrew Trimble was scragged with the line a stride away, and it took fierce defence to keep the marauding green shirts at bay.
