Sentences with phrase «converted for civilian use»

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The minister adds that if the MOD finds that any of its decommissioned land can not be converted to civilian use, it will attempt to find an alternative defence use for it.

The rockets feature prominently in CIS plans to convert former military hardware to civilian use, and ultimately to sell their space services for hard currency.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

Length is a significant problem for veterans converting a military resume for civilian use.