(Military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies.
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Examples for "defence "
Examples for "defence "
1 The treaty also made a future EU common defence subject to safeguards.
2 National's defence spokesperson Mark Mitchell today said the government should remain independent.
3 The region is extremely important from the country's defence point of view.
4 Recent international events should remind us of the need for strong defence .
5 Civil defence officials said there had been no immediate reports of damage.
1 Long discussion of how the defense of Western Europe affects arms control.
2 For example, the fighting season began without a new Afghan defense minister.
3 There's no possible reason left for keeping information from your defense staff.
4 But the new defense budget doesn't axe a single major weapons system.
5 The U.S. defense chief later mentioned the issue at his news conference.
1 The sunken road leading to the bridge had been a defensive measure .
2 Telecom has been accused of retaining its 75 per cent stake purely as a defensive measure .
3 This dirt bath is a defensive measure against the hordes of ticks that infest the rhino.
4 They called Barbara every time he escaped, a courtesy and probably a defensive measure against future lawsuits.
5 The convoy is purely a defensive measure .
6 Randall Clayton had schooled himself since Jack Witherspoon's departure in every defensive measure against the secret plotters.
7 If we are to deploy patriot missiles it would be a purely defensive measure to defend and protect Turkey.
8 The success of such a remedial and defensive measure would naturally depend upon the adequacy of the franchise aimed at.
9 Rasmussen has said any missile deployment would be a defensive measure to counterattacks, and not to enforce a no-fly zone.
10 Alexander's sounding of the Poles was a defensive measure , seriously undertaken only after Napoleon's refusal to discourage the Polish nationalists.
11 The main town is set on a hill above its port of Kapsali, a common defensive measure in the days of piracy.
12 That is a defensive measure , you must observe, because even if I talked it quite slowly they would understand just as little.
13 From Britain's point of view, the 1800 Act of Union was primarily a defensive measure to secure its western flank against the French.
14 Moreover, war in itself, excepting as a defensive measure or on a point of honor, seemed rather poor business to the thrifty Rivermouthians.
15 A hard turn away from Keynesian policies could now be justified as an urgent defensive measure , lest your country abruptly turn into another Greece.
16 Most, however, just get rid of the helmet as a defensive measure to signal to exuberant team mates not to thump them on the head.
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