Sentences with phrase «against military spending»

The analysis used military spending to create a ratio because the nature of the blog post posits education spending against military spending.

Not exact matches

Defense spending aside, transatlantic rifts could also occur should Trump continue to make critical foreign policy decisions without first consulting allies (as in the April 7 air strike against Syria in response to a chemical - weapons attack) or if he presses NATO allies to make stronger military contributions in Syria or Afghanistan.

On February 5, Rumsfeld informed the House Armed Services Committee that the military buildup against Iraq has already cost $ 2.1 billion and that further costs of the war will require a separate spending bill.

As it is the US is coming off of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as operations against ISIS, and the trend of lowering military spending as a % of GDP has resumed.

The Labour leader, who had spent his entire career opposing British military interventions, was now seemingly incapable of leading his own party against one.

Perhaps best known for advocating that the nation guard against the potential influence of the military — industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the speech also expressed concerns about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect of the domination of science through Federal funding and, conversely, the domination of science - based public policy by what he called a «scientific - technological elite».

«Would you accept that the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion was largely due to your failure to ensure: (1) that system was in place to ensure a transparent and accountable spending of budget for military operations in strict accordance with the standards of international law including the UN Convention against Corruption; (2) that any such system was operating in a continuous and effective manner; and (3) that violations of the standards were punished when detected by that system?

Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference, Fallon said he was «appalled» at the way human rights law was being used against the British military, with the result that millions of pounds of taxpayers» money were being spent on fighting «fairly spurious cases» rather than on kit and personnel.

«In fact, the ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

«The lack of transparency and accountability in military spending, during the administration of former president Jonathan, has led to the inability of the military to adequately protect people against the violation of their rights by Boko Haram in the northeast of Nigeria.»

Gibson is to the right of center but he's no tea - party wacko, having voted against Obamacare and increased military spending.

«In fact, the Ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

Set against their looming presence, Clark's images from his time spent embedded with the U.S. military, expose the dystopian relationship between the man - made landscape of Bagram and the country beyond its walls.

Environmentalists since the early 1970s had argued more generally that the world would be more secure if it spent less money on military defense and more on defense against pollution and other environmental dangers.

lolwot Yes please compare «how much we spend on the military» against the EPA's proposed expenditures: