Example sentences of "the three service " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it came about that while the Operational Staffs of the three Service Ministries were grappling with the Suez crisis of 1956 , which entailed increasing the Defence effort and calling up reservists to fill gaps in the order of battle for the contingency plan Musketeer , they were answering questions posed by the Hull Committee about the implications of halving Service manpower by April 1960 or 1961 at the very latest ! |
| 2 | His Chief Staff Officer was not even a full member of the Chiefs of Staff Committee , the chairmanship of which was rotated between the three Service ‘ Chiefs ’ . |
| 3 | Defence policy in Macmillan 's second term of office was dominated by four streams of events : an acceleration in the rate of change in weapon technology ; the ‘ Winds of Change ’ in Africa ; Britain 's first attempt to join the EEC ; and the Mountbatten reorganization of the three Service ministries into a unified Ministry of Defence . |
| 4 | The three Service Chiefs welcomed his preference for evolution rather than continuing and abrasive revolution , but the doubts and suspicions that they had about Mountbatten 's impartiality made it difficult for him to rebuild complete confidence between his staff at the Ministry of Defence and the Service ministries . |
| 5 | Macmillan astutely side-stepped the opposition by appointing General ‘ Pug ’ Ismay , Churchill 's wartime Chief Staff Officer , and General Ian Jacob , who had been one of his deputies and then Director-General of the BBC , to use their acknowledged experience of the workings of Whitehall to produce a blueprint of the most practicable way of bringing the three Service ministries together into a single Ministry of Defence . |
| 6 | The project manager was a senior social worker and the three service managers all had nursing backgrounds . |
| 7 | For this purpose the Defence Operational Analysis Establishment was formed , thereby bringing together specialist staff from the three service departments . |
| 8 | Short-term contract working in manufacturing differed from short-term contract or seasonal working in the three service sectors described above and , indeed , from the other forms of temporary working we have examined in this study , ion that many of the temporary workers concerned were " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 9 | The three service chiefs were among the few officers unaffected . |