• My government will ensure strong arrangements for defence based on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and promote international peace and security, especially in the Middle East and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    BBC: The Queen's speech in full

  • Where after the war Attlee established the case for the NHS, state education and a welfare state, Thatcher, after the industrial wars of the 70s and the Cold War, won the arguments for a market-based economy, the private ownership of key industries and services, limits on trade union power and a strong defence policy based on the Atlantic Alliance.

    BBC: Are we all Thatcherites now?

  • Foreign Ministry officials said Moscow saw a defence system based on nonstrategic missiles and open to all nations as the best option.

    CNN: Russia rebuffs Bush on ABM treaty

  • Andy Thornton, of the Citizenship Foundation, described it as "an understandable defence of their own subject based on ignorance of another's", adding that citizenship teaching had helped transform schools, inducting pupils "into the social order of the day, empowering them to play their part in its stability and prosperity".

    BBC: Overhaul school history, urges report by MPs and peers

  • Some of the commission's findings - contained in a report entitled 'In Defence of Dignity' - are based on almost 190 calls or written submissions following a public appeal for information.

    BBC: Edwin Poots defends Northern Ireland care workers

  • Well he came over to London to see Lord Carrington, Secretary of State for Defence on 3 August, and they had a long talk and my advice based on General Tuzo's advice at the time was that there was no need to ban the march in Londonderry.

    BBC: Transcripts: Lord Carver - Chief of the General Staff

  • But the University of Chicago palaeontologist argues in his paper that competitive sparring and self-defence were more likely roles for the fangs, based on a microscopic examination of teeth from Pegomastax and its kin.

    BBC: Dwarf 'vampire' dinosaur was a plant eater

  • The youngest author to be nominated is 25-year-old Israeli Shani Boianjiu whose novel, The People Of Forever Are Not Afraid, is based on her national service in the Israeli Defence Force.

    BBC: Hilary Mantel up for third major book award

  • The Supreme Court has ruled that appeals based on lawyer error must prove not only that a defence lawyer was incompetent, but that his incompetence changed the outcome of the trial.

    ECONOMIST: The criminal law

  • Capello picked Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in central defence with Michael Dawson ruled out, a surprise selection but one based on logic and the evidence of the powerful partnership he forged with Phil Jagielka when the pair played together at Everton.

    BBC: Switzerland 1-3 England

  • The SNP policy is based on assertion and presumption none of which constitutes a proper defence policy for Scotland.

    BBC: Scottish independence: Warning over 'weakened military'

  • On Thursday, defence lawyers questioned Dr Perlin's computer based statistical analysis.

    BBC: Patrick Azimkar (left) and Mark Quinsey

  • Under the changes, the partial murder defence of diminished responsibility has been replaced with "a modernised definition", based on the concept of "an abnormality of mental functioning which arose from a recognised medical condition", the ministry said.

    BBC: Defence law changes for killing after domestic abuse

  • Already, defence planners are considering whether a drone aircraft should be able to fire a weapon based on its own analysis.

    ECONOMIST: Robots go to war

  • The doctrine of "shock and awe" is based on a book by military strategist Harlan Ullman, who is admired by both Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell.

    BBC: Analysis: US 'shock and awe' tactic

  • The Scot takes on Norwegian-based Colombian Andreas Evensen at Glasgow's Braehead Arena on 4 December in the first defence of his title.

    BBC: Ricky Burns confident ahead of bout with Evensen

  • Its space and communications division, based in Seal Beach, California, is the lead contractor working on America's national missile-defence system, as well as the provider of the future combat system that is part of the integrated battlespace system for the army.

    ECONOMIST: America's defence companies are turning dual-purpose

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