deployment
Example Sentences
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She added that the Minister of National Defence and the chief of defence staff make decisions on future deployments.
From BBC
The deployment of Soviet nuclear missile sites on the island triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when Washington and Moscow came close to war.
From Barron's
The police have denied raiding the opposition leader's home, saying the security deployment was to protect him as a presidential candidate.
From BBC
Hamburg port authorities meanwhile said navigation hasn't been blocked in the city harbour thanks to the deployment of several icebreakers last week.
From Barron's
But domestic popular hostility to American military deployment, and continuing tensions over the U.S. alliance with Israel, meant there was to be no Middle Eastern replacement for Ramstein or Lakenheath.
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