They see the armed forces as the guarantor of secularism and the last defence against the rise of fundamentalism.
EADS, admits there is some attraction in getting closer to France's Thomson defence-electronics group, the last unaligned defence company of any significance in Europe.
The last strategic defence review was completed in 1998, a year after Labour came to power.
But it will be much more potent if the courts act as the last line of defence against the corrosiveness of arbitrary government.
"As the last line of defence in the cabin and key aviation partners, we believe that these proposed changes will further endanger the lives of all flight attendants and the passengers we work so hard to keep safe and secure, " the group said in a statement.
Minutes later, Collins' shot cleared the static Sorenson but full-back Kelly was on hand as the last line of defence to head the ball away to safety.
He is the last witness for the defence and is expected to continue testifying on Friday, including giving an alternate theory about how Jackson died.
On the last day of the trial, defence and prosecution lawyers gave their closing arguments, and Gabriele made a final appeal.
The last bastion of defence in favour of our superiority was cognition.
His sureness of touch which dazzled the Wolves defence last season was again evident when he was played in by Davies, rounded Krul and tapped in.
Infection by MRSA bacteria is increasingly common in hospitals, and there have been cases of bugs which show resistance even to vancomycin, an antibiotic traditionally regarded as "the last line of defence".
"It functions as the last line of defence, so if you can fit a laser onto it, you have a longer reach and an unlimited magazine, cause it keeps on throwing out photons, " he added.
Byrne, who has 27 caps, has made precious few over the past two seasons, whether joining the attack with his superb angles of running, pinning the opposition back with his booming kicks or pulling off cover tackles as the last line of defence.
The last four witnesses called by the defence, the Vatican police officers, told the court they had removed more than 1, 000 incriminating documents - including originals initialled by the Pope himself - from the butler's home before his arrest.
Announcing the release of the injury figures last month, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth said the MoD was committed to being "open about casualties suffered" by British forces.
Applying sun cream should be the last, not the first, line of defence.
This has managed to mutate to resist even the antibiotic described as the "last line of defence" against such staph infections.
But last month the defence minister, Gotabhaya Rajapakse (brother of the president, Mahinda Rajapakse), made it clear where the government's priorities lay.
The defence review last year signalled the end of RAF Kinloss and left the future of RAF Lossiemouth, both in Moray, in the balance.
Last year the defence ministry adopted a new policy that measures the army's success by the number of guerrilla captures or desertions, rather than the body count.
Matthew Upson will deputise for King and Carragher against Slovenia and is likely to partner John Terry - who was first out on the training pitch as he attempts to move on from the headlines of the last few days - in the centre of defence.
Mr Gwynne asked if ministers had learned nothing from the case of Liam Fox, the defence secretary forced to resign last year after an inquiry into his links with an adviser, Adam Werritty.
While the role of the Home Guard during World War II has been widely celebrated, very little is known of their counterparts in the Auxiliary Units, who would have been Britain's last line of defence in the event of a Nazi invasion.
Quins started the second period with renewed purpose and put together a period of sustained pressure that at last asked questions of the Blues defence.
Last month the Ministry of Defence confirmed that 13, 500 military personnel - more than the 10, 000 that were deployed to Afghanistan - will be part of the 23, 700 security force for the Games.
"The public accounts committee is right to acknowledge that it will take time to undo the consequences of years of over-promising and financial mismanagement by the last administration, " said defence equipment minister Philip Dunne.
Last month US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said he expected the transition process to be complete by mid to late 2013 - ahead of the timetable outlined by the UK Ministry of Defence last year.
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But the breakthrough was supplied when Denisov at last broke through the centre of the Rangers defence after 72 minutes.
Robinson added another penalty in the 73rd minute to give his side further breathing space and then, in the last minute, Tindall drove through another gap in the Leeds defence to cross in the right corner.
The last chapter is a return to sanity: a brilliant defence of the man from Stratford.
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