Sentences with phrase «largest peacetime»

TfL has said that the transport challenges posed by the Games are the «largest peacetime logistical exercise» ever.

At one point on the channel is Point Arguello, a headland near the city of Lompoc, and the site of the Honda Point disaster in 1923, in which seven US Navy destroyers run aground, in the largest peacetime loss of US Navy ships.

The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships.

Well, Reagan had the luxury of running the largest peacetime deficits we have seen, but at least it eventually bore the fruit of the «peace dividend,» that Clinton got to harvest.

When Partition established Pakistan and India as sovereign states, the new boundary resulted in a colossal transfer of people, the largest peacetime migration in human history.

But Balls will not acknowledge mistakes in notching up Britain's largest peacetime deficit.

Not exact matches

The world's largest plane maker is in the midst of its biggest peacetime boom, churning out 20 percent more planes than when the last big cycle peaked in the 1990s.

And the fiscal deficits since the crisis in many developed countries have been the largest ever in peacetime as a share of GDP.

And next week, when I go to the G7 meetings in Washington, I will represent the country with the single biggest structural budget deficit - indeed the largest deficit in the peacetime history of Britain.

It takes time to understand how the party that preached «prudence with purpose» left government with the largest Budget deficit in our peacetime history.

Several countries have budget deficits around 10 percent of national income or larger, and their governments must show their publics and the financial markets that they have a plan for dealing with these unprecedented peacetime imbalances.

Weintraub's account of the 1946 baseball season uncovers a fascinating chapter in the sport's history, but the larger story of the country's sometimes painful transition to peacetime gives the book its staying power.

A new large supply source instantly changes the flexibility limitations for military conflict for both superpowers as well as their peacetime economics of course.