Sentences with word «peacetime»

Cameron hailed the partnership - the first in peacetime since the 1930s - as a «historic and seismic shift» in British politics that was necessary for the stability of the country.

Concerns are increasing over the potential impact of fully autonomous weapons under human rights law, which applies during peacetime as well as armed conflict.

And the worst public sector deficit in British peacetime history.»»

Support for Britain's first peacetime coalition in 70 years has fallen dramatically since David Cameron and Nick Clegg launched the government in the Downing Street rose garden last May, according to the latest Guardian / ICM poll.

Tory eyebrows are likely to be raised by Clegg's declaration that the rich must pay more as Britain copes with an economic downturn that is far deeper than anything he expected when he took a «collective gamble» to form Britain's first peacetime coalition in 70 years.

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

The result seemed to signal the resumption of «normal service» for peacetime government in Britain.

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

She was also the greatest peacetime prime minister we ever had.»

The disaster at the Hillsborough football stadium on 15th April 1989 was one of the greatest peacetime tragedies of the last century.

The facts of this case are clear: the ex-banker tasked with cutting Britain's biggest peacetime Budget deficit handed more than # 40,000 of taxpayers» money to his boyfriend, despite parliamentary rules banning MPs from paying rent to partners.

At this point sharp divergences appear, for while church bodies have repeatedly opposed universal military training, some Christians favor it, and while many deplore the size of our military budget as compared with other peacetime services, there are those who would think it folly to lessen it.

Heading into Veterans Day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vetoed legislation that would have authorized state pension credits for peacetime military service.

Dharma puts greater emphasis on peacetime interactions, especially for the va...

I'm here for what promises to be the culmination of an investigation into the UK's biggest ever peacetime explosion.

School reform heads the list of national priorities as we enter a new century, partake in another presidential - election process, and publicly acknowledge the increasing disparity between rich and poor in the midst of the longest peacetime economic boom in our history.

As a consequence he has a similar set of mixed emotions about peacetime conscription.

But if the budget works, they will face pressure to explain whether it was wise of Labour to run up Britain's largest peacetime fiscal deficit.

In 2012, the Society criticised Government handling of its policy of elected Police and Crime Commissioners - which led to the lowest turnout in British peacetime history.

Since our last peacetime experience of national governments in the 1930s, they have had a toxic name in Britain.

We offer lots of fun tools to help you find and Discover the stories of triumph and sacrifice of New Brunswickers at war and in peacetime dating back to the early 1600s.

Few would voluntarily choose to turn back the clock to the the 1970s, what with record peacetime inflation and Watergate, not to mention polyester leisure suits, bell - bottoms and disco.

We need to dig very deep into peacetime financial history to uncover similar episodes.

Rather, they are the same virtues necessary to navigate civilian and peacetime life faithfully.

She was undoubtedly the most successful peacetime Prime Minister of the 20th Century; she dominated the 1980s and Blair was glad to accept her legacy and live with it throughout his premiership - there is a wonderful cartoon by Martin Rowson of Blair and Thatcher - «Magdonna and Child.»

David Miliband's comments last week, that «No nation in human peacetime history, never mind Britain, has voluntarily given up as much political power as we are being invited to throw away on 23 June» is a classic of the type.

In my view, my noble Friend is the best peacetime Prime Minister that we have had.

also... too few homes built - this yr lowest peacetime build since 1924.

Could trees and bushes have been to blame for the force of one of Europe's biggest peacetime explosions?

This is likely the greatest peacetime challenge that the United Nations and its agencies have ever faced.

Lower rates have already fueled the longest peacetime economic expansion in this nation's history.

The VISA program enables a seamless, time - phased transition from peacetime to wartime operations.

But today's carbon - depleted and environmentally damaged world is very different than the post World War II environment that found new peacetime uses for chemicals.

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.

It was the worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, a tragedy that remained lost in legend for over a century.

A number of successful prosecutions were brought by the Peculiar Crimes Unit in the years that followed, with the result that the unit continued its work into peacetime.

Veterans with service only during peacetime periods and active duty military personnel must have had more than 180 days» active service.

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.

Dharma puts greater emphasis on peacetime interactions, especially for the varied nations of India and those colonial powers who want to make their fortune in Asia.

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.

To me they're peacetime issues, like bureaucracy.

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.

The collapse of Monarch Airlines has stranded some 110,000 passengers, forcing the largest - ever peacetime repatriation of citizens.

These days, Albertans are in the middle of a prolonged interjurisdictional peacetime, and not just because Notley has opted to be less confrontational with fellow premiers and the federal Liberals (she does get into spats with her right - leaning neighbour, Saskatchewan's Brad Wall, but he's been goading).

Other dimensions of culture it accepts within clear limits (economic production, commerce, the graphic arts, paying taxes for peacetime civil government).