Sentences with phrase «military spending declines»

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Since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, governments worldwide have been looking toward a «peace dividend,» an across - the - board decline in military spending.

He also kicked out Uganda's Asian population (mostly Indian and Pakistani citizens), and spent large amounts on the military, both of which led to the country's economic decline.

Overseas military spending obliged the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to borrow abroad to prevent the dollar's exchange rate from declining.

Russian military spending fell by a fifth last year, its first decline in nearly two decades, with tighter purse - strings likely to affect Moscow's military activity...

The federal government has promised to keep 68,000 full - time military members and 27,000 reservists in uniform, despite declines in defence spending and the closure of 12 military recruiting centres across the country in 2013.

In the words of Noam Chomsky, a venerable critic of American imperialism: «Where spending is rising, as in military supplemental bills to conduct the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it would sharply decline.

Our military is overreaching and spending billions to police the world as if no - one had ever read the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Education has gotten more expensive while military spending has declined.

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Estimating an exact scorecard is difficult however due to varying baselines and how to account for declines in spending due to such items as reduced costs for military expenses.