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  • Obama supports expanding the size of the military, and re-equipping for 21st century tasks.

    Matthew Yglesias » Requests We Can Believe In 2009

  • While she stood firm against Heseltine's attempt to create a traditional Tory drive to save Britain's inner cities, Whitelaw set about re-equipping the police with more modern helmets, shields and batons that would prove as important as building up coal stocks in Thatcher's showdown with the miners in 1984.

    Thatcher government toyed with evacuating Liverpool after 1981 riots 2011

  • Projects can include "re-equipping, expanding or establishing manufacturing facilities in the United States to produce advanced technology vehicles or qualified components," according to the Department of Energy.

    GM withdraws application for $14.4 billion in federal loans Peter Whoriskey 2011

  • We are re-equipping for Agincourt on the brink of Waterloo.

    The readers' room: What you thought of G2 this week Phil Daoust 2010

  • OK, it meant throwing away most of those pans which had been part of my kitchen life, but name me a cook who doesn't get a thrill out of re-equipping from time to time.

    Induction seduction 2010

  • Referring to the transition from a situation when the focus was almost entirely on tackling terrorism and militancy to the present situation where priority is on the handling law and order situations, the Chief Minister said that paradigm shift require a re-orientation of mindset and re-training and re-equipping of State Police for handling law and order situation.

    JK CM Calls for institutionalizing LoC trade arrangements & stresses on removing AFSPA 2009

  • There is a provision in the 2007 Energy Bill that allows the Energy Department to dole out up to $25 billion to domestic auto makers to pay for, as the bill spells out, "the cost of re-equipping, expanding, or establishing manufacturing facilities in the United States to produce" low-mileage vehicles.

    Will Small Be Beautiful for GM? 2009

  • For these reasons we need to focus on projects of proven national benefit, such as speeding up the re-equipping and refurbishing of the military and expanding and upgrading the electrical grid.

    Investors Want Clarity Before They Take Risks 2009

  • There needs to be a significant increase in defence expenditure not only to allow for the expansion of the army, which would allow Britain to put more boots on the ground in missions like Afghanistan, but also to allow for a re-equipping of the force.

    Tories must pledge to spend more on defence 2009

  • There needs to be a significant increase in defence expenditure not only to allow for the expansion of the army, which would allow Britain to put more boots on the ground in missions like Afghanistan, but also to allow for a re-equipping of the force.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

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