noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a defence force
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Should the European Union have its own defence force?
a defence lawyer (= a lawyer who tries to prove in court that someone is not guilty )
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This evidence was given to the defence lawyer.
a defence witness
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A defence witness said that Carter was not holding a gun when the shot was fired.
a witness for the prosecution/defence
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Witnesses for the prosecution have not sounded convincing.
civil defence
defence cuts
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Further proposals for defence cuts were drawn up.
defence mechanism
defence/control/survival mechanism
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When a person is ill, the body’s natural defence mechanisms come into operation.
defence/energy/housing etc policy
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Our energy policies must put the environment first.
defence/welfare/education etc spending (= spending on defence etc )
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Further cuts in defence spending are being considered.
foreign/defence/finance etc minister
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a meeting of EU foreign ministers
military/defence expenditure (= money that a government spends on the armed forces )
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Military expenditure has been growing year on year.
spirited defence/debate/discussion etc
stout defence/support/resistance
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He put up a stout defence in court.
the defence/education etc budget
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We had to make cuts in the defence budget.
the military/defence establishment
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The committee has many political figures who are close to the military establishment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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civil
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But the fact remains that the safeguards themselves do not prevent the government using civil plutonium for defence purposes.
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The country has made few preparations for civil defence .
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These difficulties were greatly exacerbated by poor civil defence planning.
foreign
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If the Government ever had any ideas about foreign and defence policy, they have run out of them.
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There are no significant new constraints on governments to make joint foreign , defence , immigration or policing policies.
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Threats, not pillars, will decide whether the members devise joint foreign or defence policies.
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Mr Kostunica's main power is in appointing the foreign and defence ministers and the army chief of staff.
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June 1994: Elections to EP. 1996: Intergovernmental conference to review foreign policy and defence .
good
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The best form of defence is counter-attack.
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To pounce on their opponents, moreover, seemed the best defence .
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He did, of course benefit from having a very good defence .
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So long as he covers every arc of attack by maintaining a good defence , he will be safe.
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Crossbowmen and hand gunners are better in defence .
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Wire netting is the best defence against rabbits and squirrels, which will chew through plastic netting to plunder fruit crops.
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Her best defence may be her demure appearance.
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But it is a first step towards better value for defence dollars and D-marks.
national
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Pressing for a huge tax cut and insisting on his plans for a national missile defence fit this picture.
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There is already tension over the controversial national missile defence system.
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The key to the whole business was not politics or national defence .
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When a civil conflict eventually broke out in 1991, the national defence force was unable to provide a credible response.
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The interesting issues in economics arise when, as with national defence , exclusion of certain individuals from consumption is effectively impossible.
only
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And appearing only for the defence has always seemed too easy an option.
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The only defence open to enterprises and manufacturing industry would be a chaotic cut in their demand for these raw materials.
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Because her only defence was to turn him against her, she realised with a pang of sorrow.
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Until his body recovered from the effects of the psychic blast this was his only means of defence .
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The only defence is that the estate agent took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence.
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He resorted to his only hopeless defence ... and screwed his eyes shut.
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budget
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Only the defence budget will see the benefit of prosperity.
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With commitment and amounts of cash that seemed paltry when compared with government defence budgets , that problem could be solved.
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Congress still has a big role to play in shaping the missile defence budget .
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After yesterday's announcement of huge cuts in the defence budget , things can only get worse.
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The majority of voters also favoured cuts in the defence budget and level or increased Spending on domestic education and health programmes.
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His plans to slash defence budgets by £6 billion would cost 100,000 more their jobs.
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He believed in big defence budgets and plenty of parades.
counsel
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His defence counsel contended that a suspended sentence would enable Chemouil to pay compensation to the victim.
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Hakkar's defence counsel requested a postponement, which was refused, and was unable to attend the hearing.
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They had been tried without benefit of defence counsel before the Public Tribunal, a special court which was subject to Government influence.
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Hyde's defence counsel has told Northampton Crown court that provocation would be an issue in the trial.
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Coffin wondered what a defence counsel would have made of that lack if the case had ever come to trial.
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The defence counsel said that appeals would be made against the verdicts.
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The defence counsel said the defendant had admitted losing his temper on finding out that the girl was under age.
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After the last prosecution witness had given his statement, Kesselring's defence counsel rose to give his opening address.
cut
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The management say Government defence cuts are to blame.
expenditure
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Greatly increased taxes and a major shift back to defence expenditure could be the least of our worries.
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Male speaker Under Options for Change we could see there was going to be a reduction in defence expenditure .
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It is amazing what we hear from Opposition Members, when they intend to cut defence expenditure .
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While military spending was constrained by the renunciation of belligerency, this does not mean that defence expenditure is insignificant.
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By contrast defence expenditure was cut, chiefly by reducing national service from 14 months to 12.
force
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Armed forces: No standing defence forces .
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Armed forces: defence force disbanded in 1981; approximately 300 police.
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An army spokesman said that the security vetting of personnel was a normal procedure in all defence forces .
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MacArthur was dedicated to the extirpation of militarism and did not favour the development of defence forces .
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But obvious problems will centre on the security situation, and the reconstruction of the defence forces and the economy.
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When a civil conflict eventually broke out in 1991, the national defence force was unable to provide a credible response.
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After working in the prison service, he joined the defence forces before becoming an intelligence agent.
industry
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The company still plans to sell off Thorn Security and Electronics, which makes security and surveillance equipment for the defence industry .
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It has no great defence industries , no strategic significance.
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An emerging contemporary example of radical change is in the business which to date has been concerned with the defence industries .
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When you're in a defence industry that is inevitable.
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The Secretary of State has presided over the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in recent years.
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In a town such as Shrewsbury, a high proportion of manufacturing is linked to the defence industry .
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He met management and workers at Swan Hunter's and Vickers, two firms who depend on the defence industry for work.
lawyer
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Both prosecution and defence lawyers gave eloquent closing speeches.
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But a defence lawyer suggested that at the time this was the normal practise in football, and Steve White agreed.
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Cross-examination by defence lawyers should also be videotaped at an informal hearing before trial, with the press and public excluded.
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Macarthy, the defence lawyer , found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable.
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When the session was adjourned, the judiciary and defence lawyers gave conflicting accounts of the outcome.
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Gen Jaruzelski's defence lawyers first filed a motion requesting more evidence from prosecutors before charges were laid.
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There was an eloquent and impassioned speech from Mr Wash, Woolridge's defence lawyer .
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The trial was suspended the same day after the 19 defence lawyers walked out, and then postponed until July 12.
mechanism
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When it's cold, the body sets its own range of defence mechanisms in motion.
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What appears to be contrary can always be assimilated as evidence of repression, or as a defence mechanism .
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Inflammation is another internal defence mechanism and is a reaction of living tissue to infection, injury and irritants.
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And if our defence mechanism is impaired, what other dangers may we not be open to?
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I note this, and harp on her imperfections, as a defence mechanism .
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The ideal candidate will have experience of protein purification and gene cloning and should have an appreciation of plant defence mechanisms .
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Where did she get this automatic shutdown defence mechanism ?
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Everyone's got a defence mechanism .
minister
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The strongest force there is run by Ahmed Shah Masoud, the defence minister .
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He sent the defence minister , Peter Reith, in his place.
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Mr Hikmatyar is trying to wrest control of the capital from the defence minister , Ahmad Shah Masood.
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At Mr Ugaz's request, the defence minister has ordered an audit of all military purchases since 1990.
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In a weekend of violence, the defence minister , Khaled Nezzar, narrowly escaped from a car bomb attack.
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Labour's shadow defence minister Martin O'Neill also visited Newcastle.
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His move led to the resignation of his defence minister and many senior generals.
missile
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Pressing for a huge tax cut and insisting on his plans for a national missile defence fit this picture.
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The missile defence issue is without question the most troublesome, time-consuming and potentially dangerous item on the current international agenda.
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It has dangerously upset the strategic balance by proposing a new national missile defence system.
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In particular, the relationship is becoming increasingly bedevilled by the issue of anti-\#missile defence .
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The latest example concerns the controversial missile defence system proposed by the United States.
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Congress still has a big role to play in shaping the missile defence budget.
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Agreeing on the system, and the budget, for missile defence is going to be a long business.
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Bush's speech pushed the political boundaries of the missile defence issue much further than he has done before.
policy
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Bush's defence policy would not work, would cost too much and would destabilise the world, said Gore.
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Threats, not pillars, will decide whether the members devise joint foreign or defence policies .
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Questions of defence policy are vast, complicated, confidential, and wholly unsuited for ventilation before a jury.
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That is why the Opposition's defence policy is incredible.
secretary
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Since he resigned as defence secretary over the Westland helicopter affair in 1986, he has campaigned for an active industrial policy.
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But Donald Rumsfeld's appointment as defence secretary makes those predictions look naive.
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The defence secretary paused, and then said that such questions were decided by the president, not by him.
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Powell lost his bid to have his ally Richard Armitage, appointed as deputy defence secretary under Rumsfeld.
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One notable exception was John Tower, the choice for defence secretary of former president George Bush.
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Mr Bush has been careful to balance practical types like his defence secretary , Donald Rumsfeld, with policy wonks.
self
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Relatives of the men say they were wrongly convicted, as they had acted in self defence .
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They claimed that when they were surrounded by the gang they acted in self defence .
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Relatives of Poole and Mills say the two men were acting in self defence .
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She said it was self defence .
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Or are you innocent because you acted in self defence ?
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The jury cleared him, deciding that Mr Waller had acted in self defence .
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As it rears up in self defence , it spreads its wide hood to reveal a massive pair of eye-spots.
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They claim they were acting in self defence .
spending
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Defence Minister Moshe Arens had successfully argued that defence spending could not be reduced in the light of the ongoing Gulf crisis.
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This included 7,777,400 million won for defence spending , an increase of 12.9 percent over the previous year.
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The Ministry of Defence announced today that it will close in 20 months time as part of cutbacks in defence spending .
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United States defence spending has been a key driving force behind much of the electronics, telecommunications and computer industries.
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The obvious candidate is defence spending .
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There has been a comparable fall in support for increasing military defence spending and compulsory military service.
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The government on June 13 revealed the exact levels of defence spending , which had hitherto been secret.
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The government was committed to further major reductions in defence spending .
system
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There is already tension over the controversial national missile defence system .
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And the ground defence system had not got one shot off in retaliation.
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This virus affects the body's defence system so that it can not fight infection.
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Between Achanalt and Achnasheen there are no real breaches in their defence system .
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The drug's designed to stimulate the body's own defence system to fight the virus.
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Take for example, the national missile-defence system proposed by the United States, and strongly supported by George Bush.
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Examples of such systems include: defence systems, satellite communication systems, transportation systems, manufacturing systems and economic systems.
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In common with all other forms of fire defence systems , however, a sprinkler system has limitations.
■ VERB
provide
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Nor can they have been substantial enough to have provided defence against further attacks from the Huns or from the Alamans.
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As to the point of ownership of lorries, that would not in itself have provided a defence .
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Even if it is feasible, there is no guarantee that this would provide a defence to an infringement action.
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The law, which provided F437,800 million for defence equipment spending, was adopted on Dec. 18, 1989.
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Why is the government directly involved in providing defence , schools, and health services?
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This means that, even though an exemption clause on its wording apparently provides a defence , it may nevertheless be ineffective.
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The Secretary of State did not provide a good defence of the Government's proposition.
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Delusion-formation in paranoid disorders makes use of this process to provide defence against the passive homosexual wish.
spend
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In summary, governments have many reasons for spending so much on defence .
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The economy remained on a war footing during 1989 with between 30 and 40 percent of the budget being spent on defence .
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In all, nearly 31 million pounds had been spent on war and defence from 1540 until 1552.
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Caps on discretionary spending were not raised, nor was spending transferred from the defence to domestic programmes.
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In the West small countries that refuse to spend big on defence technology are frequently criticised for not pulling their weight.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
leap to sb's defence
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But the girlfriend of deputy manager John Onanuga leapt to his defence.
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Did Geoffrey leap to the defence of every person with disabilities whom he encountered?
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The stats cant leap to his defence either.
let your guard/defences down
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Never let your guard down was the only solace he offered.
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We must not let our defences down, Mrs Thatcher and other cautious voices would argue.
spring to sb's defence
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Equally notable figures will spring to the defence of the secret deal, however.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Defence spending has risen by 10% in the current budget.
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The defence industry relies heavily on sales of weapons to foreign countries.
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The article was a rather unconvincing defence of her economic record.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A quick break by Swansea after 17 minutes again exposed the Chester defence .
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Before this defence has any role to play it must be shown that the defendant has committed a tort.
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Browning's defence lawyer says this and other evidence could have been crucial if heard by the trial jury.
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Even if it is feasible, there is no guarantee that this would provide a defence to an infringement action.
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He thought your freelance Mrs Howard represented the same thing that he thinks he represents himself: the defence of this country.
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Middlesbrough were growing in confidence all the time, winning the midfield battle and occasionally opening the Ipswich defence .
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National Research Laboratories are large, publicly owned defence research and development establishments.
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Nowhere in one leading textbook is it treated of as a defence .