Sentences with phrase «world military spending»

A Japanese boy has been injured after a window fell off a US military helicopter and landed on a school playground - the second such incident in a week US and world military spending and budgets are very high, almost back to Cold War levels.

Not exact matches

The outside world needs to apply a different kind of pressure: a diplomatic and economic push for regime - led reforms, commercial investment, and reduced military spending.

According to 2016 estimates gathered by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the United States was responsible for 36 % of the entire world's military spending.

The United States has only 4 % of the world's population, but spends more than half of its research and development dollars, much of which is tied to the military.

On the military side, Israel is third in the world in terms of per capita spending, behind only the United Arab Emirates and the U.S. Looking to future tech, it is the second biggest spender on military robots, such as unmanned aerial and ground robots, after the United States.

They are members of EDG, one of China «s top electronic sports teams, who spend six days a week in a military - style training compound to become world beaters in video games.

Apart from the occasional sound - bite on military spending, the Iraq war, and missile defence, Canada's role in the world was not part of the mainstream election debate.

The U.S. media somehow neglect to mention that the U.S. Government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars abroad not only in the Near East for direct combat, but to build enormous military bases to encircle the rest of the world, to install radar systems, guided missile systems and other forms of military coercion, including the color revolutions that have been funded and are still being funded all around the former Soviet Union.

Just think how much more peaceful a place this world would be if we spent the money on guns an military might on healthcare and clean water, food, and clothing.

Support science, knowledge, technology instead of military spending (war is the cause of a lot of famine around the world), helping and understanding people instead of suppressing them.

Two months before the presidential election of 2000, the PNAC unipolarists issued a position paper titled «Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century» that spelled out the particulars of a global empire strategy: repudiate the ABM treaty, build a global missile defense system, increase defense spending by $ 20 billion per year to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, and reinvent the U.S. military to meet expanded obligations throughout the world.

When military spending by U.S. allies is excluded, the United States is spending nearly twice as much on «defense» as the rest of the world combined.

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.

Gordimer calls for more money to develop a vaccine, for Third World debt relief, and for less military and more public health spending within Africa.

Tewelde claimed asylum in the UK after the 2008 World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh in order to avoid military conscription and he settled in Scotland after spending a traumatic childhood in Africa.

This might make sense if all the world's military spending went towards the likes of the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe.

None of them challenge the UK's massive military spending (the sixth highest in the world).

Last year it spent 3.6 % of its GDP on defence, the highest ratio of any NATO member (and the highest total military budget in the world by a hefty margin).

Craig Weller spent 6 years in Naval Special Warfare and 2 years in private security in remote areas where he helped hundreds of guys and military personnel from around the world build muscle and strength.

As a military family child, she spent most of her life traveling and observing unique cultures around the world.

Thanks to a creepy Curious Case Of Benjamin Button - like effect that puts his CGI - shrunk head atop a smaller man's body — making him look like the world's gauntest lollipop — Chris Evans (the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four films) spends the first quarter of the film as a scrawny, short, asthmatic, but lion - hearted New Yorker desperate to join the military and help fight Hitler.

If children's learning were to receive «the military solution,» namely funding equal to more than a third of what the world's nations spend on education, American schools could improve enough to be among the world's best institutions.

Could it be because we spend more on wars and military than all other nations in the world combined?

Fellows have provided financial counseling and education to more than 170,000 service members and spent more than 447,700 hours helping military families reach their financial goals in the United States and around the world.

Approximately twenty - five of the artist's seminal works from his years spent in Berlin (1913 — 1915) reveal the profound impact of World War I and elucidate the artist's appropriation of military symbols and Native American motifs.

the digital age's impact on our expectations of privacy; the increasingly pronounced economic inequality throughout the world, which leaves resources under the control of few; increased military spending at a time when basic human needs related to shelter, food, and medicine are not being met; and worldwide drought and the impact of water shortages.

Growing up during World War II, she spent her formative years working at a parachute factory sewing military uniforms.

He was an Army draftsman during World War II and spent time in a hospital after encountering racial taunts at military posts in the South.

We spend 4 billion dollars on retaining the most powerful military position in the world and somehow with all that appropriated money for outdoing every other country some 20 times over, the Navy can not conduct those same exercises outside the whale safety zone?

Defense and Energy: The military also has the world's largest budget for basic research and development, to the tune of some $ 75 billion a year (we spend about $ 1 billion a year on all energy research, as I pointed out the other day).

Defense and energy: The military also has the world's largest budget for basic research and development, to the tune of some $ 75 billion a year (we spend about $ 1 billion a year on all energy research, as I pointed out the other day).

By spending just 1/8 of the world's current military budget, we could meet the Plan B goals for basic social improvements and restoring the earth.

Environmentalists since the early 1970s had argued more generally that the world would be more secure if it spent less money on military defense and more on defense against pollution and other environmental dangers.

Obviously if the world has less evil people like tt, we could do with less military spending and easily afford mitigation.

In a world where our politicians have unwisely allowed unfettered globalization to the detriment of everyday Americans, where the Indians and Chinese are rapidly replacing the US as the dominant demographic and economic force on the planet, and where recent presidents have spent treasure on unwise military adventures abroad, our faith in ourselves is already shaken — adding the ramifications of climate science to this might be enough to break the collective American spirit.

It is not a lot that the developed nations have to do, except provide 1 % of the world's military spending, $ 10 billion, every year to the LDCF.

In 2010 the US accounted for 42.8 % of all military spending in the world (and has doubled military spending since 2001).

To put the Ceres figure of $ 1 trillion per year in perspective, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Yearbook 2013, total military spending by the nations of the world in 2012 was 1.75 trillion dollars, with just the top six spenders accounting for more than 1 trillion of that.

Let your political representatives know that a world spending nearly $ 1 trillion a year for military purposes is simply out of sync with reality in a situation where the future of civilization is in question.

«The world is now spending $ 975 billion annually for military purposes.