defence budget

基本解释

In short, the new American defence budget would spend more on today’s wars inIraq and Afghanistan and less to stave off future threats from China or Russia.
总之，美国的国防预算把精力和重点放在当下，放在激战正酣的伊拉克和阿富汗战事，而不是为来自未来中国或俄罗斯的威胁枕戈待旦。
Most developing countries are still military pipsqueaks: China does not yet own a single aircraft-carrier, and its defence budget is less than the annual increase in America's.
大多数发展中国家依然是军事小国：中国还没有一架简单的空中加油机，它的国防预算也少于美国每年的增加额。
Now an overstretched defence budget faces a massive cut: as part of the bid to address Britain’s fiscal deficit, defence faces a cumulative squeeze of between 10% and 20% over five years.
现在已经捉襟见肘的国防预算还将面临大规模的削减：作为造就英国财政赤字的一大部分，国防支出在未来五年将面临10％至20％的累计缩减。

Ms Siddiqa defines military business as any capital appropriated by soldiers outside the defence budget.
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They will also be watching Uganda's defence budget carefully and, by implication, Uganda's involvement in Congo.
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Over the past 20 years the base defence budget has averaged 3.3% of GDP.
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