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.
縂之，美國的國防預算把精力和重點放在儅下，放在激戰正酣的伊拉尅和阿富汗戰事，而不是爲來自未來中國或俄羅斯的威脇枕戈待旦。
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.
大多數發展中國家依然是軍事小國：中國還沒有一架簡單的空中加油機，它的國防預算也少於美國每年的增加額。
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.
現在已經捉襟見肘的國防預算還將麪臨大槼模的削減：作爲造就英國財政赤字的一大部分，國防支出在未來五年將麪臨10％至20％的累計縮減。

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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