Sentences with phrase «calling for the defense»

I was calling for the defense to be improved all summer.

The Security Project calls for the Defense Department to be much more involved in the region to match the militaries of other Arctic nations, and questions whether current policy frameworks, such as an Arctic strategy released by the Coast Guard this year, will be enough to prepare for potential oil spills, accidents and shipping traffic challenges.

Grant attacked government support for schools run by religious organizations and called for the defense of public education «unmixed with sectarian, pagan or atheistical dogmas,» according to Mark Edward DeForrest, writing in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

We players call for a Defense Revolution, and the revolution has come.Say...

Not exact matches

If there's a new point in his speech Monday, it's likely to be a defense against calls for his dismissal from board positions over his support of Trump.

The Trump Administration Thursday is also releasing its plans for the current fiscal year 2017, which runs through September 30, including a call for an additional $ 30 billion in funding for defense and the border, Mulvaney said.

That aviation company consists of what he calls the world's largest air force, with more than 50 jet fighters, and offers simulated threats for training exercises for one of its clients, the U.S. Department of Defense.

His defense, once one of his calling cards, has slipped this season, though perhaps he would ramp up the effort for a team in the playoff hunt.

The Trump administration is not losing Europe by calling Germany out for living off its trade partners, and for its subpar defense spending.

Steven Feldman, a former assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York who is a member of the New York State Bar Association's White Collar Committee, which Hendon cochairs, called Hendon a «fantastic pick» for Trump who is «an all - around superstar» in the «upper echelon» of white - collar defense attorneys in the city.

The budget calls for an increase of $ 52 billion for the Defense Department above the 2017 base budget of about $ 522 billion, enacted under the Obama administration.

NZ is the acronym for a separate operation called Nitro Zeus, which gave the US access into Iran's air defense systems so it could not shoot down planes, its command - and - control systems so communications would go dead, and infrastructure like the power grid, transportation, and financial systems.

This low speed may make it vulnerable to sophisticated air defense systems Russia is known for such as its advanced S - 400 system, called the SA - 21 Growler in the west.

Trump's budget also calls for what the President deemed a «historic» increase in military spending, amounting to an additional $ 52 billion allocation for the Department of Defense.

Preet Bharara, the former US attorney for the Southern District of New York, called House Speaker Paul Ryan's defense of President Donald Trump on Thursday «silly,» and he offered a counterpoint to Ryan's argument.

Zach Fryer - Biggs, Senior Pentagon reporter for defense specialist Jane's, called the acquisition «a rational move.»

Built by Orbital ATK — which is set to be acquired by defense giant Northrop Grumman this year for $ 7.8 billion — TESS will use what Ricker called a «Goldilocks orbit» to photograph the skies.

The missile's reentry vehicle, or where North Korea would put its warhead, burned up during the final seconds before touching down on the ground, Mike Elleman, the senior fellow for missile defense at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said on press call organized by North Korea analysis website 38 North.

Zachary Cruz was later held on a $ 500,000 bond for the second - degree misdemeanor charge, an amount his defense lawyer called «outrageous.»

Late last year, a research firm called Defense Group Inc. argued in a report prepared for Congress that the Neurala investment could give China access to the company's underlying technologies.

The bill also calls for the lifting of limits on federal spending, which would allow the repeating increases in defense and domestic budgets.

On Tuesday, at an annual military parade in Tehran, Iran put on display new S - 300 air defense missile system, as well as other weapons seen under banners calling for «Death to Israel» in Persian.

new S - 300 air defense missile system, as well as other weapons seen under banners calling for «Death to Israel» in Persian.

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Pompeo also renewed calls for the release of a jailed American pastor accused by Turkey of espionage, and encouraged Turkey not to pursue the purchase of an advanced air - defense system from Russia.

Uber said today it would create $ 3 million defense fund to help cover legal, immigration and translation costs for drivers affected by the immigration ban, with Kalanick further clarifying his stance on the ban and calling it «wrong and unjust.»

It's funny how many refuse to accept Rush's apology but will jump to the defense of the likes of Bill Maher who flat out refuses to apologize for calling Sarah Palin an extremely vulgar word.

The appeal to authority of Cicero's defense, his own and that of the Republic, is a call for a precarious community of political and social process to remain united by commonly held principles of justice.

Since that time, a variety of thoughts and biases have come toward an association with the label, such as libertarians, the southern agrarians, and the religious, as well as reconstructions of traditionalism (Kirk), calls for experience and history in the place of abstract reason (Oakeshott and Scruton), and a defense of moral and intellectual virtue outside organized religion (Strauss).

Olson wants to claim Luther for his own project of «challeng [ing] time - honored and settled positions,» appealing to the Reformation in defense of what I called Meliorism.

They never call for violence in defense of an institution or an abstract value.

For one, they fail to understand the reframing of the question as one of defense, which is what I called in my essay the subordination of the grammar of desert to that of the common good.

• Canada's Defense Department has issued a paper condemning the use of human clones for military purposes and calling for an international treaty to ban any attempts toward that end.

I accept Rorty's defense of the value of literature as a means of sensitizing us to the predicaments of life, but would expand upon it by reiterating my original call for a truly interdisciplinary conversation, one that includes humanists and scientists, theoreticians and practitioners, students and educators.

It was not meant to be a theological defense of the authority of Scripture or a call for Christians to study the Bible in context.

I do not have any overweening rules that call for the death of other people beyond self - defense.

And indeed, as he suggested, it would call into question the power of the Congress to act now, with the Defense of Marriage Act, in seeking merely to preserve, for the states, their freedom to refuse.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

Thus testimony makes reference to a trial, that is, to a legal action including charges and defense and calling for a judicial decision which settles a dispute between two or several parties.

If Jesus had spoke specifically about the concealed carry weapons of today that are needed for adequate defense against the foes of today (17 round semi auto handguns), they wold have called him crazy and crucified him.

These facilities are called for by the plan: (a) Community mental health clinics serving both adults and children are the main line of defense in reducing the need for prolonged or repeated hospitalization.

Thirteen theses in defense of so - called heteronormativity and other supposed heresies, from a Christian and specifically Catholic perspective, for the purpose of public debate:

What you mistakenly call an «assault weapon» is merely a semiautomatic low powered rifle used for target shooting, hunting and home defense.

The result is that religion becomes a defense against God or, at least, a defense against a deeply intimate experince of God that challenges us to become what we are — image bears of God, called to become sacraments of Divine Love in this world, not just waiting for God to «come down» and do the transforming work FOR us instead of THROUGH for God to «come down» and do the transforming work FOR us instead of THROUGH FOR us instead of THROUGH us.

The dramatic development was one of several twists on a day when President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged the Rev. Terry Jones to call off the Saturday event, timed for the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Thirteen theses in defense of so - called heteronormativity and other supposed heresies, from a Christian and specifically Catholic perspective, for the purpose of public debate: 1) Homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species that depends for its propagation and socialization on the complementary....

While the mammoth European installations have been cut back, Defense Department records show that the new operational mode calls military personnel away from home about 135 days a year for the Army.

While his literary style was experimental, his writings call for Christian morality; a defense of faith and religion.

Some recipes call for cod, striped bass, or snapper, but because these fish are considered «moderate mercury» fish by the National Resources Defense Council, they are best eaten only occasionally.

«And that's what we talked about: Shea, when he got called back up, it's all about confidence for him and playing better defense and I think we're seeing real good results right now.»