Sentences with phrase «last defense of»

Ahhh, personal attacks and obscenity — last defense of those who know they have no leg to stand on and a true sign of maturity (that last part was sarcasm in case you didn't pick up on that).

Teetering on the brink of destruction, the Romans are the last defense of civilization in the early medieval world.

Will UTLA be party to a rescue or the last defense of a failure?

As these financial changes happen, the last defense of the status quo — district - level implementation — will begin to crumble.

Not exact matches

My dad was a bartender; my mother was a maid,» and a polished defense when erstwhile front - runner Jeb Bush criticized Marco Rubio in the last GOP presidential debate over his attendance record, helped nudge the Florida senator ahead of many of his rivals.

«During the Trump Administration, we will shift from playing defense at the FCC to going on offense,» Ajit Pai said in December last year, a month before president - elect Donald Trump appointed him as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

«Remember that no one cares as much about your money as you do, and you are ultimately your last line of defense against fraud,» he added.

Two came on great reads by the Seahawks» defense (though one throw he probably should have held onto), and the last, as mentioned, came in an end - of - game, desperation situation.

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis presented his National Defense Strategy on Friday, outlining how the Department of Defense will carry out President Donald Trump's National Security Strategy, which was released last month.

Despite the setbacks, writers and editors must soldier on — you're the last line of defense.

Much of this coverage focuses too much on the political rhetoric at the expense of the people who actually perform the work of financial regulation; the ones who will be the best and last line of defense against another financial crisis.

Army Col. John Hope was the director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

That comes close on the heels of a similar meeting in Shanghai last December, showing that a Sino - Japanese «strategic relationship of mutual benefit» may be heating up while Tokyo feels secure under the U.S. defense umbrella and enjoys full access to American markets.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

Zzyym's lawsuit, filed last year by the LGBT rights legal firm Lambda Legal Defense Fund in federal court in Denver, argued that the policy of requiring either a male or female designation on passport applications violated due process and equal protection rights for intersex people.

President Donald Trump is coming to Arizona this week to bring his circus of hate after doubling down on his defense of the Neo-Nazis and white supremacists that wreaked havoc in Charlottesville, Va. last weekend.

As an added bonus, everyone will be happier and more relaxed knowing that they aren't the last line of defense.

I am convinced that the Congress is the last line of defense.

«It is possible that the acquisition of COL is the first step in separating UTX into two entities: a Commercial Operation and a Defense and Aerospace Group,» Howard Rubel, equity analyst at Jefferies, said in a note last week as speculation about a deal being struck by the two companies increased.

Microsemi, which has grown in the last few years through a wave of acquisitions, has said it wants to expand further in aerospace and defense.

He might not have had the triple - doubles of Russell Westbrook or the defense of Kawhi Leonard, but anyone who watched basketball last year knew that if Harden was on the court it was in your best interest not to look away.

Their usually stout defense has been riddled with injuries and exposed in every facet of the game over the last three weeks.

The good news, according to Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall, is that a range of measures put in place over the last half - decade have made a positive impact on the Pentagon's buying power while trimming costs across a range of major defense programs.

Last November John Borowski, CEO of Borjohn Optical Technology, a small defense contractor in Burlington, Mass., was sentenced to jail and heavily fined for «knowingly endangering others.»

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

Harward met with top White House officials last week and has the backing of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.

«Without sounding overly melodramatic, and I want to apologize if it does, the last victim of John Muhammad sits at the defense table today.»

We were the last line of defense, an actor and his foundation were the potential last line of defense.»

Artificial intelligence took a step forward last night, at an annual tournament for players of the tactical wargame Defense of the Ancients 2.

Remaining as the last line of defense saved his entire platoon, but it also cost him his life on March 7, 1951.

Some 235 gigabytes of military documents were taken from South Korea's Defense Integrated Data Center in September last year, Democratic Party representative Rhee Cheol - hee said in radio appearances on Wednesday, citing information from unnamed South Korean defense offDefense Integrated Data Center in September last year, Democratic Party representative Rhee Cheol - hee said in radio appearances on Wednesday, citing information from unnamed South Korean defense offdefense officials.

Last year, at a conference, Ackman said that executives of Herbalife were hiring criminal defense lawyers implying that they would soon be charged with a crime.

Chuck Hagel, who served as defense secretary from February 2013 to last February, told the Atlantic Council earlier this month that backing down on the red line «hurt the credibility of the president of the United States.»

One of the examples he cited was the recently announced Digital Defense Service, a sort of Defense Department job shadowing project in which technology workers can team up with the government on projects that could last up to two years.

Last week, as news of the skeptical analyses spread in Israel, the Defense Ministry issued a statement deploring «baseless claims» that relied on «amateur YouTube videos.»

It can be your last line of defense in an economic crisis — a form of wealth insurance, if you will.

About 40 per cent of the increase over the last three years has been in the law and order departments (Correctional Services Canada and related agencies, Justice and the Canada Border Services Agencies) and defense civilian staff.

Though the German government is notionally committed to the alliance's 2 - percent defense - spending target, it only spent 1.2 percent of its GDP on defense last year — an amount her coalition partners, the Social Democrats, and more than half the German public oppose increasing.

His last public statement (on Facebook, of course) was a mixture of regret and defense, reading, in part, «I am deeply sorry that my actions are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners.

As the last witness for the defense in the Justice Department's legal battle against AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, Mr. Stephenson portrayed the 140 - year - old phone giant as being in an existential crisis and in need of the deal with Time Warner to compete against tech companies.

Last year's men's singles defending champion and # 1 seed Georgie Jecminek will have his title defense challenging by 19 year old Kyryll Kryvchun of West Vancouver.

Last Thursday, James Mattis, the Defense Secretary, published a public letter concluding that the decline of the American industry as a result of unfair trade posed a threat to national security, a position aligned with the Commerce Department's.

Echoing then - Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's remarks last month, Goldfein said most view the January strike in Libya as a B - 2 strike, but forget that its journey and mission were supplemented by Air Force tankers, maintainer airmen and weapons loaders, among other «family of systems.»

The success of the Iron Dome rocket defense system in the fighting in southern Israel last week should end for once and for all discussions about whether it is worthwhile.

In the analysis that he undertook for Bar Ilan University's Begin - Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Rubin describes the last round of fighting in Gaza as «an absolutely formative event in Israel's active defense system.

Last week, Minister of Defense Ehud Barak met Panetta at the Pentagon to discuss a range of issues, including Iron Dome, Iran, and Syria.

It's led to especially collegial relations with Roman Catholics, with President Harrison writing a letter in June of last year thanking the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their defense of religious freedom.

«Thou shall not kill» do not apply in the last resolve of self - defense, combats in war, and lawful executions.

With the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act last year and same - sex marriage now imposed by court after court, it's hard to sustain the illusion, much cherished by the secular left as a scare tactic, that our country is on the brink of a theocratic takeover.

At his sentencing today, Scott Roeder - the man who killed Kansas abortion provider George Tiller last year - gave a long, scriptural - laden defense of the slaying, arguing that he was protecting unborn children and obeying a higher law by killing the doctor.