(1) A new Nimrod maritime reconnaissance aircraft will be scrapped even though £3.6bn – about the amount of money the entire defence budget will be cut by over the next four years – has already been spent on it.
(2) In August 2014, Robert travelled to Beijing with Paul Marks, the head of the Australian mining company Nimrod Resources.
(3) In September 2006, a Nimrod surveillance aircraft from RAF Kinloss in Scotland exploded in mid-air near Kandahar, killing all 14 servicemen on board, while in March 2012 six soldiers died when their Warrior armoured fighting vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Helmand province.
(4) What you can do is buy in a different kind of capability, possibly from the Americans, and refitting other airframes with some of the technology that would have been inside Nimrod.
(5) Robb brushed off a question about whether AusTrade had provided any assistance in connection with the Nimrod Resources deal, noting Turnbull had “sought all information associated with the issues”.
(6) A spokesman for Stuart Robert has told News Corp the then assistant defence minister attended in a “private capacity” a signing ceremony with Nimrod Resources’ Paul Marks and Communist party officials who run the Chinese government-owned company MinMetals.
(7) It will also represent the biggest single loss of UK life in a single incident in Afghanistan since 2006, when an ageing RAF Nimrod crashed in the country shortly after mid-air refuelling, with the loss of all 14 people aboard.
(8) The percentage of total aberrations in root tips exposed to nimrod reached 54.39% at 250 ppm for 4 h, and 64.69% in root tips exposed to rubigan-4 at 250 ppm for 6 h. The types of numerical chromosomal aberrations produced by both fungicides included: binucleate cells, c-metaphases, sticky chromosomes, polyploid cells, and laggards.
(9) She said Bellingham told her fellow Loose Women panellists: “Please, when I’m gone, have a big party for me and have a dance.” The service began with Bellingham’s husband, Michael, and sons Michael, 31, and Robert, 26, helping to carry her wooden coffin adorned with white flowers into the church as Nimrod from Elgar’s Enigma Variations was played.
(10) And then all was surrounded by a glittering blue sea as the audience was brought into the action, holding up sheets of material, accompanied by the strains of Elgar's Nimrod, performed on the greensward by a contingent from the London Symphony Orchestra.
(11) She agreed that the absence of Nimrods limited the country's defence capabilities: "It has removed a capability and increases the risks.
(12) He will also say that the loss of the MRA4 Nimrod is an example of what he calls Labour's "incompetence in defence acquisition".
(13) Turnbull sought advice from Parkinson, the head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, after revelations Robert attended an event in Beijing to celebrate a deal involving Nimrod Resources, an Australian mining company headed by Liberal party donor Paul Marks.
(14) During the course of bureaucrat Martin Parkinson’s investigation, Robert disclosed a shareholding in Metallum Holdings, which had an interest in Nimrod Resources.
(15) The deaths take the toll of British personnel killed in Afghanistan to 404 and represent the biggest loss of UK life in a single incident in Afghanistan since 2006, when an ageing RAF Nimrod crashed shortly after midair refuelling, with the loss of all 14 people aboard.
(16) We have repeatedly sought reassurances from the Tory-led government that they had properly thought through the defence and industrial consequences of scrapping Nimrod.
(17) This was followed by a meeting with the Chinese vice-minister of land and resources in the reported presence of Nimrod Resources the next day.
(18) A Paul Marks is also listed as the executive chairman of Nimrod Resources , which donated $500,000 to the Liberal party, but Marks declined to confirm if he was also the director of P Marks Investments when contacted by Guardian Australia.
(19) Today's report also points to delays and cost overruns in plans to equip the RAF with new Nimrod maritime reconnaissance aircraft.
(20) • Scrap the long-delayed Nimrod MRA4 maritime reconnaissance aircraft on which £3.5bn – more than the total cut in the defence budget over the next four years – has been spent.
Numbskull
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a relief to be treated as a numbskull, you know?."
(2) His role, Baird Whitlock, has been described – by the Coens themselves – as part of a “numbskull trilogy,” or more accurately, a tetralogy, considering this is the fourth time that Clooney has played some kind of dope for them.
(3) Watch Clooney in the trailer for the new Coen brothers comedy Clooney explains how Joel Coen told him to play his first numbskull, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(4) "Is there any way that we can stop numbskulls like Peter Drury banging on about how dull, pragmatic and solid this Brazil team is?"
(5) I put them in the other fucking bag like a fucking numbskull.
(6) Another cable revealed that the Pakistani president was described as a "numbskull" by Sir Jock Stirrup, Britain's then chief of defence staff .