defence

Fonética

Traduções

Variantes

• defences: Plural
• defenced: Pretérito, Particípio passado
• defencing: Particípio presente

Exemplos

• , require agile engineering for which the defence giants “are not innately organised”, as Kearney, a consultancy, delicately puts it

  Fonte:www.economist.com

• At the recent Honolulu Defence Forum, a security talkfest, Japan’s defence minister, Koizumi Shinjiro, had raised the alarm over “tensions that are on the brink of war across the globe” and warned, “The Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic are inseparable and indivisible.”

  Fonte:www.economist.com

• But, Mr Neill points out, some in the Western defence community are increasingly arguing that these strike groups are vulnerable, as they are effectively "sitting ducks" for any missile attacks.

  Fonte:www.bbc.com

• Lacking bellicose neighbours, armed insurgencies or much appetite to project power abroad, the defence minister, Raul Jungmann, recognises that the country’s armed forces “do not possess classic military attributes”

  Fonte:www.economist.com

• The four-day conflict between arch-rivals India and Pakistan this month ended with a ceasefire and both claiming victory – but it now appears that China's defence industry might also be an unlikely winner.

  Fonte:www.bbc.com