Sentences with phrase «than a defense of»

Democrats, it is widely thought, are instinctive doves who are entirely comfortable only with those exercises of American power (as in Kosovo) where humanitarian impulses, rather than defense of the national interest, are the primary imperative.

violence for any reason other than the defense of yourself, your property, or your family is just violence with no cause.

Net neutrality is more important than the defense of the United States.

A voter deemed neurotic might be shown a gun - rights commercial featuring burglars breaking into a home, rather than a defense of the Second Amendment; political ads warning of the dangers posed by the Islamic State could be targeted directly at voters prone to anxiety, rather than wasted on those identified as optimistic.

Not exact matches

Besides the U.S. Department of Defense, Anthem is Express Scripts» only client that accounts for more than 10 % of its revenue, according to a filing.

That aviation company consists of what he calls the world's largest air force, with more than 50 jet fighters, and offers simulated threats for training exercises for one of its clients, the U.S. Department of Defense.

Theranos» technology was never deployed by the U.S. Department of Defense and generated a little more than $ 100,000 in revenue from operations in 2014, the SEC said.

Big pharma is a popular target for righteous anger from many quarters, but Governor Brown's defense of the law rests on reducing income inequality rather than sticking it to the man for its own sake.

For example, GS Engineering, based in Houghton, Mich., has secured more than $ 1 million worth of contracts with defense giant Lockheed Martin, thanks to its involvement with the cluster, both through networking and marketing, Glen Simula, president of GS Engineering, said in an email sent to Entrepreneur.com via Kulju.

U.S. military fighter - attack jets, bombers and drones have dropped more than 67,000 bombs since the 2014 start of Operation Inherent Resolve, the Defense Department's mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, according to information provided by Air Forces Central Command.

Defense projects make up less than a third of Boeing's total revenue and have been flat for the past few years.

While some people may have concerns there's not enough regulation, it's less of an issue in the U.S. than in other jurisdictions, said Yaya Fanusie, director of analysis for the Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.

It has thus far donated 51.4 % of its cash to Democrats, making it one of only two defense companies out of the top 20 that have given more to Democrats than Republicans.

Significant incremental adoption of SES Networks» O3b based services by the U.S. Department of Defense was the main driver of growth in U.S. Government revenue with more than 20 sites in operation and more than five gigabits per second now under contract, most recently with U.S. Africa Command.

But Obama fired Flynn as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 — and Flynn's security clearance would have been renewed at the DIA level rather than by the upper echelons of the White House.

The logic: Purdue has been one of my favorite teams to watch in college football this season, with a sparky offense and better - than - expected defense capable of getting a stop when the moment calls.

By contrast, the 2012 Pillar of Defense interceptions apparently blocked less than 32 per cent of threatening rockets.

However, the low altitude flight profile of an attacking Tomahawk, its ability to use terrain masking for cover and concealment and its relatively small size, significantly smaller than a manned combat aircraft, make it a difficult target for even the most advanced air defense systems.

«After more than a decade combatting violent extremists and conducting contingency operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and most recently Syria, [the Defense Department] has prioritized the rebalancing of its forces in recent budget requests to build and sustain the capabilities necessary to prevail across a full range of potential contingencies,» states a Government Accountability Office report released in June.

«The diplomatic portion of the federal budget is very important and you get results a lot cheaper frequently than you do on the defense side,» McConnell told reporters.

The Defense Department's annual steel requirements comprise less than 0.3 % of the industry's output by weight.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials,» explained CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday.

While much of the venture capital activity in the United States is concentrated in Silicon Valley, in recent years a sector of the economy with closer ties to Washington, D.C., than San Francisco has been upping its investments in start - up technology companies — America's defense industry.

«The Elliott book of deals is probably the most instructive, and it's also one of the most far, far reaching,» says Marty Lipton, founding partner of the law firm Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and inventor of the poison - pill corporate defense strategy, who has lately faced Elliott more frequently and on more fronts than ever before.

In a day of closed - door meetings with NATO foreign ministers, Pompeo appeared to charm European allies with tough talk on Russia and a more sure - footed approach than his predecessor Rex Tillerson, but he still carried Trump's familiar demand for higher defense spending.

Hackers who stole security clearance data on millions of Defense Department and other U.S. government employees got away with about 5.6 million fingerprint records, some 4.5 million more than initiall...

«Before his conviction, Mr. Libby had rendered more than a decade of honorable service to the Nation as a public servant at the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the White House.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials.»

More than four years later, Zambada — who currently resides in a federal prison in Milan, Michigan — still has not been tried, in part because of endless wrangling by prosecutors and defense attorneys on the size and scope of the pretrial legal discovery.

Ivi's defense was that it was operating no differently than any other cable company, and that it is part of a new trend of vertically - integrated start - ups that are now being classified as Online Video Distributors.

But factors other than political ones were at play as well, including a big (5 percent) drop in shares of defense behemoth United Technologies after it announced plans to buy another company for what some analysts deemed an exorbitant price.

Every defense of current P / E ratios must assume either a higher long - term growth rate than is evident from historical data, or it must assume that investors are willing to hold stocks for a long - term return of substantially less than 10 %.

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.

But this wrenching concern over the deficit — particularly when the situation in Puerto Rico remains so dire — is hard for some to swallow when conservatives are simultaneously pushing forward a tax reform package that could leave a more than a trillion - dollar hole in the deficit and have signed on to spending bills that added more than $ 100 billion to defense spending, without the immediate promise of offsets elsewhere.

For some context, that's more than the total 2016 outlays for the Department of Defense and Education... combined.

Service Eligibility: (a) are not a direct competitor of The Defense Alliance of Minnesota; (b) do not have more than one Defense Alliance account at any given time; and (e) that you have full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and in doing so will not violate any other agreement to which you are a party.

We continue to hold index put option coverage under about 90 % of our stockholdings, though primarily as a «stop loss» against any major continuation, rather than a defense against moderate declines.

Among the largest U.S. defense contractors, Northrop Grumman Corp has spent more than $ 12 billion on share repurchases since 2010, even as revenue has declined in each of the past five years.

In addition, borrowers who have lump - sum payments made on their behalf under a student loan repayment program administered by the U.S. Department of Defense may also receive credit for more than one qualifying PSLF payment.

The Department of Defense alone obligates more than $ 300 billion a year to private contractors.

That will be more than we spend each year on defense or Medicaid, and as a share of GDP, it could be the highest in history.

Lotte Mart wants to inject more than W400 billion in emergency funding into its supermarket chain in China, which has been hit hard by an unofficial boycott over the stationing of a Terminal High - Altitude Area Defense battery in Korea (US$ 1 = W1, 128).

«It is more important than ever to re-energize the national dialogue surrounding the nation's armed forces to inspire and influence business, government, nonprofit leaders and the general public to get involved,» said former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

The empirical analysis suggests that Iron Dome batteries intercepted less than 32 percent of all hazardous rockets during Pillar of Defense, but between 59 and 75 percent during Protective Edge.

It highlights how interception was far less influential for Pillar of Defense than for Protective Edge.

For Pillar of Defense, the adjusted claims rate was 32 percent lower than that of Second Lebanon but 10 percent higher than that of Cast Lead, suggesting the batteries intercepted at most 32 percent of the hazardous rockets, and perhaps much less.

Restricted / Closed Defense sector (except weapons production) Traffic information systems (air, maritime, land) Alcoholic beverage production Marijuana cultivation Casinos Historical and sacred sites Chemical material industry that can damage the environment Pre-design and consulting services Architectural design services and architectural services Utilisation of natural coral for aquariums, souvenirs and accessories Small and medium enterprises Any business with investment value of less than 10 billion rupiahs

Second, Republicans once more look utterly craven in their continued defense of Trump, whose lies are piling up faster than we can track them.

More than half of the $ 1.3 trillion spending bill that Congress passed and Trump signed in March is going toward defense.

It is true that, in the Middle East, things happen which require the defense establishment to prepare for dealing with new extraordinary threats that require a lot of money, even more than what will be freed up by cutting the salaries of career officers or selling their company cars forcing them to arrive at IDF HQ by hitchhiking.