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defence force

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meanings of defenceand force


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defence
noun
uk /dɪˈfens/ us /dɪˈfens/
the act of protecting someone or something against attack or ...
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force
noun
uk /fɔːs/ us /fɔːrs/
physical, especially violent, strength ...
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Examples of defence force


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It has a unique ability to be a local defenceforce.
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To go in for an immense defenceforce must simply weaken the regular army.
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It has since been steadily robbed as a field force in order to create an anti-aircraft defenceforce.
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Such provision will be essential if we are to create a civil defenceforce that will be effective, should the need arise.
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The majority of them—about 2,500—are forced to fight with the rebels and the rest are recruited by the civil defenceforce.
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The corollary of the stay-put strategy is that the population has no conceivable protection, however much the civil defenceforce is expanded.
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That gap is the need to strengthen our home defences through the creation of an effective volunteer civil defenceforce.
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That may satisfy the expeditionary force, but, obviously, some new system will have to be devised for the home defenceforce.
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This would have solved the recruiting problems both of the armoured squadron and of the home defenceforce.
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I served throughout the war in an integrated defenceforce.
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If you are going to take care of that problem, you must have a first-rate defenceforce to do it.
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You can train people to fight as individuals or you can train people to fight as a defenceforce.
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Did this give us a proper defenceforce?
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However, there are some who talk in terms of creating a kind of self-generated defenceforce—separate entirely from the military and police forces.
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It is less than six months ago that we were called upon to raise a defenceforce of 60,000 or 70,000 men.
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The big under-expenditure referred to is due to two causes, first of all the slowing down of the expansion programme for the home defenceforce.
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Will there be the defenceforce necessary to protect the rigs?
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I must say a word here on the proposals for a local defenceforce.
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We are discussing not the need for the defenceforce, but whether it should be more than 4,000 men.
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I warmly welcome what has been achieved already in terms of expanding the territorials and creating the home service defenceforce.
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