Sentences with phrase «at the defence of»

Mourinho who felt incredible defensive mistakes were to blame for his team thrashing faulted teen striker Marcus Rashford for not tracking back enough, leaving space for Victor Moses to run at the defence of the Red Devils.

Not exact matches

Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference at the Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 30, 2018.

When looking at defence stocks, beware of any company with large ties to a single big - ticket project, particularly if that project isn't on solid ground.

The title's not - so subtle biblical reference is a hint at Stursberg's view of the Ceeb as the place that business common sense forgot, and the book serves largely as a catalogued defence of his belief that audience numbers, not an ambiguous cultural mandate, would define the network's success.

Adm. Mark Stanhope, a former head of the Royal Navy, has said that moving the weapons «would add a dangerous period of destabilization in our nuclear defence posture at a time when the international picture is clearly deteriorating.»

While many in Britain would cheer at the idea of Clarkson losing his job, the political blog Guido Fawkes has rallied to his defence.

Robert caused international controversy on his first day in office in 2014 by criticising Silicon Valley companies in the Financial Times, but he has also spoken at MIT in defence of strong encryption and US technology leadership.

At press time, none of the parties has filed a statement of defence.

«I think it's a concerted effort that there is too much money to be made here and (they're) not going to be deterred by the structural or cultural defences (anymore),» said Chris Young, who works with companies on the receiving end of activist campaigns at Credit Suisse in New York.

Google Earth, Maps and Translate are just a few of the company's services that have defence dollars at their very cores.

At the coding event on Thursday, Pichai gave a strong defence of the role of women in tech.

The Mach Loop is part of the British Ministry of Defence's Tactical Training Low Flying Area and the pilots know there are troves of photographers watching the loop at all hours of the day... and they know exactly what the cameras want to see.

Why it matters: Many of the 230,000 people working in the defence sector in the UK are based in Scotland; Thales subsidiary Thales Optronics employs 500 at a submarine periscope facility in Govan, Glasgow.

At the post-Budget Treasury briefing yesterday there was definitely smell of blood in the water as it became clear that Hammond's spokespeople had no real defence for the broken promise.

At the time of writing, none of the defendants had filed a statement of defence.

Among the many well - known Canadians scheduled as «participants» were Stephen Harper's Conservative cabinet ministers Stockwell Day (who at first denied attending) and the then - defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj.defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj.Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj.defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj. - Gen.

The commitment in Budget 2011 to undertake a Strategic Operating Review to find $ 4 billion in annual savings followed the Budget 2010 initiatives which restrained growth in national defence spending, capped funding of the International Assistance Envelope, forced departments to absorb the increase in annual federal employees» wages for 2011 - 12, and froze their operating budgets for 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 at their 2010 - 11 levels.

Most recently, he was Financial Controller at James Fisher Defence and took control of financial management for the company's Australian operations.

Brian L. Job is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security and Defence Forum program at the University of British Columbia and Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Thomas Harvey III, the acting assistant secretary for strategy, plans and capabilities at the Defence Department, told the South China Morning Post that the mainland's flights around the island were «a definite message of intimidation».

Hugh Stephens is executive - in - residence at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and a fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.

He currently serves as Executive - in - Residence at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and is a Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.

The decline of 6.6 % was due entirely to weaker first quarter sales growth at Defence.

Hugh Stephens is a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and a Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.

Yet at every turn the government runs to the defence of supply management, the most antiquated, anti-competitive sector of the Canadian economy.

Why does the Minister of National Defence not act responsibly, slow down, and yes, meet the needs of the air force, but at best value for the taxpayers?

Alan Williams, former head of the initiative at National Defence, says that the Conservatives» agreement will benefit Canada's industry far less than if there had been a public bidding process.

It's why this other story, of direct political activity by members of the Canadian military on behalf of former Defence Minister Peter McKay, caused such controversy at the time.

Meeting defence spending alone, now estimated at 11 per cent of GDP and rising, will mean making cuts elsewhere.

It is certainly true that the countries at the centre of the Asian crisis — Thailand, Indonesia and Korea — had rates that were de facto soft fixes — a high degree of stability in the good times, but not any serious institutional defences when they came under pressure.

Jason Kenney has been promoted to Minister of National Defence, and Pierre Poilievre has been tapped to replace him at Employment and Social Development Canada.

Was the decision by Mike de Jong on behalf of the B.C. Liberal government to offer to pay the defence costs, estimated at $ 6 million, made before the special prosecutor's offer of reduced charges and could that have operated as...

James Bogle, who's also part of Catholic Union, was speaking after barristers went on strike in support of criminal defence solicitors, who've seen a nine per cent pay drop since the government's reforms came into effect at the start of July.

The move from the potential «wars between nations» of the second half of the 20th century to the «wars among the people» at the beginning of the 21st century has a profound impact on defence industry.

As truckloads of equipment arrived at the fair organised by the Defence and Security Equipment International in East London in September 2017, Quakers were among faith groups protesting against arms trade and profiting from war.

A book called Disinformation, co-written by General Pacepa and the American professor of law Ronald Rychlak (best known for his book Hitler, the War and the Pope, a well - researched defence of Pius XII's record during the Second World War), which spells out these revelations at greater length, is «dubious at best» — or at least, the bits written by Pacepa are: the reviewer NCR admits that «what Rychlak contributes, drawn from his earlier work on Pope Pius, appears solid».

Of course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaderOf course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaderof heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaderof orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaders.

We British like to pride ourselves on being exemplars of fairness, supporting the underdog and coming to the defence of those who are treated unjustly, whether at home or abroad.

He told calmly of his upbringing in the Protestant heartland on the mean streets of working - class Belfast, and of joining the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) at 16.

During the Black Plague, the believers believed that the plague was the work of satan, and they also believed (without any foundation for the beliefs at all) that cats were the devils familiars, so to fight the plague, they killed all the cats they could find, eliminating the best defence they could have to the plague... the cats that kill the rats who's fleas carried the plague.

We perfect this defence apparatus from generation to generation until we can assure ourselves that the world is there to be experienced and used as we like but that nothing is directed at us, nothing required of us.

«following the scripture» The Christian equivelent of using the «I was just following orders» defence at a war crimes trial.

There is no contradiction: as he wrote in 1993, «Christianity is at its heart a radical «yes,» and when it presents itself as a «no,» it does so only in defence of that «yes».»

Bourne's love for education, shown in his efforts at Wonersh, was soon put to wider application in defence of Catholic schools.

But co-operating with the Conservatives in defence of the Union made it possible for Labour to be at the wrong end of anti-Tory hostility — a hostility which Labour has fostered and from which it has previously benefited.

As a gay Christian who has followed and been friends with Wendy (at least in the land of facebook) for a while, I feel the need to come to her defence.

«Ignoring» this has followed, at least in part, the intellectual defeat of the previous defences of the spiritual soul from abstract knowledge by nominalistic interpretations of scientific methodology (see our recent «Experimental Success» and «Human Dignity» posts).

Benjamin B. WARFIELD (1851 - 1921), dogmatician at Princeton Theological Seminary, known for his defence of biblical inerrancy (Evolution, science, and Scripture: selected writings, ed.

The Christian upholds the law of the state and supports its defence against others when justice is at stake.

President of Lebanon Michel Aoun, who is of no relation to the Lebanese commander, arrived at the defence ministry on Saturday to monitor the situation.