Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] department " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defence Department is believed to have strenuously opposed use of US forces , once again , during Tuesday 's meeting . |
| 2 | But under intense congressional pressure the Defence Department says that it will kill the programme next year unless the services manage to iron out serious flaws . |
| 3 | FET has been instrumental in blocking experimental release of genetically engineered organisms into the environment ; has helped halt a BioWar facility in Utah : and has fought successful court battles with the US Department of Agriculture , the National Institute of Health , the Environmental Protection Agency and the Defence Department . |
| 4 | Noel Koch of the Defence Department came across North one day in the corridor , frazzled ; it was the same story . |
| 5 | Last June , the Defence Department sent scientists , led by Haroun Tazieff , a prominent vulcanologist and President Mitterrand 's commissioner for natural disasters , to Mururoa . |
| 6 | Apparently there are no specific plans to recruit more scientists to do the job , according to a Pentagon official who oversees the defence department 's research grants to university scientists . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's a man inside the Defence Department who we want to know more about . ’ |
| 8 | The State Department appears to be in favour of that proposition , whereas the Defence Department is against it . |
| 9 | On Aug. 3 the US Senate approved an amendment , first approved on July 29 by the Senate armed services committee , chaired by Senator Sam Nunn ( Democrat ) , to the Defence Department budget which stated that the USA should reduce its troop numbers in Europe if any of its NATO allies undertook unilateral cuts . |
| 10 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 11 | It was revealed in October 1989 that the Defence Department had rejected an internally commissioned report which suggested that homosexual men and women be allowed to undertake military service . |
| 12 | The report , Non-conforming Sexual Orientation and Military Suitability , was produced by the Defence Department 's Personnel Security Research and Education Centre , and it concluded that there was no evidence that homosexuals were any more likely than heterosexuals to threaten the integrity of the services . |
| 13 | The Defence Department announced on Sept. 18 that it proposed to end or reduce operations at 151 military sites in 10 European and Asian countries . |
| 14 | Officials described the termination as the largest weapons contract ever to be cancelled by the Defence Department . |
| 15 | In early December 1990 the Defence Department had released an internal report which cited " errors of judgment and failures of supervision " in the programme which was estimated to be at least $1,300 million over budget and 18 months behind schedule . |
| 16 | The escalation of the A-12's costs was seen as a failure for the fixed budgeting principle much praised by the Defence Department during the 1980s . |
| 17 | Cheney 's decision to cancel rather than rescue the stricken programme was also widely interpreted as an attempt by the Defence Department to repudiate the long-standing convention that defence contractors could enter into unrealistic contracts confident that the government would make good any losses suffered in cases other than fraud or gross mismanagement . |
| 18 | The fact that Cheney felt able to cancel the A-12 was indicative of the altering priorities of the Defence Department in the post-cold war era . |
| 19 | It included $2,890 million for the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI ) programme ( $1,700 million less than originally requested by the Defence Department ) ; $2,350 million for the B-2 Stealth bomber project ; $688 million for the MX and Midgetman intercontinental ballistic missile programmes ( although no funds were authorized for MX rail deployment ) ; $1,840 million for the purchase of 52 Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles ; and $964 million for the development of a new generation of fighter aircraft . |
| 20 | On Aug. 13 the Defence Department ( Pentagon ) disclosed that 35 of the 148 US service personnel killed during the Gulf conflict died as a result of " friendly fire " — they were killed accidentally by US or allied forces . |
| 21 | Dropped from the bill was the proposal presented on Oct. 31 by Democrats Les Aspin ( Wisconsin ) and Sam Nunn ( Georgia ) , respective chairmen of the House and Senate armed services committees , to divert $1,000 million from the Defence Department budget to help the Soviet Union combat hunger and demilitarize its economy . |
| 22 | Succeeding Heinz Häsler , he had previously been in charge of the Defence Department engineering corps . |
| 23 | Sean C. O'Keefe , the Defence Department 's chief financial officer , was appointed as acting Secretary of the Navy on July 7 . |
| 24 | In June the Navy 's investigation was suspended and the matter was transferred to the Defence Department Inspector General for a thorough review . |
| 25 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 26 | On Aug. 14 the US administration announced that the Defence Department was to take charge of a two-month US operation to airlift food into Somalia ( or into Kenya for onward distribution into Somalia and use in refugee camps ) . |
| 27 | The Defence Department Inspector General , Derek J. Vander Schaaf , released on Sept. 24 his report into the Tailhook affair , the most serious sexual scandal to have broken in the US military for decades . |
| 28 | Timing of the airdrops was to be determined by the defence department in co-operation with the United Nations , the president said in a written statement . |
| 29 | The defence department predicted that the domestic changes would result in the loss of 57,000 civilian and 24,000 military jobs over a six-year period . |
| 30 | We are running this in the off season , which means that only the Park Department is running motorized rigs and that there are only 25 launches a day . |