Defensive formation.

As a defensive measure, the enemy country responds by unleashing a defensive cyberattack that results in the allied nations' power grids going down.

They have no stockade.

No stockade?

This move has been characterized by Ethiopia as purely defensive.

Yes, civilization seems to be on the defensive.

Did you surround your camp with moat and stockade?

She's on the defensive, but it's a façade.

Now, during the Cold War, that may have been a defensible position for the United States to take.

It was reputed to be the most difficult military defence line in North Africa.

This sudden move of the United States being on the defense... has come as a complete surprise.

The ruling on the case, which had been brought by the Philippines in 2013, quickly put China on the defensive.

And the less convinced people are about their future, the more they tend to focus on their identity in a negative, defensive manner.

Last but not least, a work of advocacy will be undertaken for the implementation of judiciary and police reforms.

Can a truly defensive military doctrine really be based on nuclear arsenals as pillars of security?

And, evolutionists, confronted with this response, tend to circle the wagons and insist that everyone is in agreement.

When a war of salvation and survival turned into a war of conquest, occupation, and annexation, the international community recoiled and Israel went on the defensive.

The first line of protection was a moat 60 feet wide and 22 feet deep, stretching all four miles from coast to coast.

Properly used, they are an effective means of deterring attacks, and thus have a definite place in the defensive arsenals of States.

So this right here, this is the complement system, which is really just a set of proteins that always just floats around and they are a good kind of first line of nonspecific fight against some type of invading pathogen.

A sweeping defense review that Japan recently carried out reaffirms that it will continue to oppose its immediate neighbors possession of nuclear arms.

So as soon as it pierces the first line of defense, as soon as it pierces your skin, a couple of things are going to happen.

In a historical reversal, Japan has found itself on the defensive against the increasingly muscular foreign policy of its former colony and old rival.

True, their security from military attack is currently no longer at stake. But NATO is more than just a defense pact.

By early 1982, the Iraqi occupation forces were on the defensive and were being forced to retreat from some of their forward lines.

In contrast, Obama expanded the war in Afghanistan which he considered to be a war of necessity and put the Taliban on the defensive.

The negotiating attitude and position of developing countries regarding the various areas of Doha negotiations should not be interpreted as simplistic defensive or offensive approaches.

The implementation of a national anti missile defence system could trigger an arms race and lead to the development of more advanced missile systems and an increase in nuclear weapons.

The United States wants to establish an anti missile defense system that is supposed to protect America and parts of Europe against missiles from the Middle East.

They decided that the German army in the west would go over to the strategic defensive for most of 1917, while the Central powers would attack elsewhere.

The landslide election of Shinzo Abe, who campaigned on a robust defense platform, may well lead to a serious Japanese push to invigorate the country s military capabilities.

The argument against the fence on the West Bank assumes that the settlers are there illegally and therefore are not entitled to the protection of a defensive barrier.

line of defense, keep these things out and then if they were to get into your body, to kill and eliminate them from our system so that we don't get sick and so that we don't die.

11. At 1010 hours on 25 August 1993, four soldiers from the Iranian side were seen carrying out maintenance work on a defensive position opposite the Bajliyah post inside the area of separation.

Perhaps the paranoid style in public debate, focusing on motives rather than substance, is a useful defensive tactic against rabid critics.

A number of American strategists are eager to ring China with a NATO like defensive barrier, building outward from the US Japan Security Treaty.

And the Kremlin is aggressively portraying the planned establishment of a modest US missile defense installation in Poland and the Czech Republic as a threat to Russia s vital security interests.

In that connection, the Ethiopian Commissioner stated that the redeployment of the Ethiopian army was a purely defensive measure , in contrast to Eritrea's characterization of the same development as provocative .

The Anti Secession Law is a domestic law of China, and a defensive measure for safeguarding State sovereignty and territorial integrity and for enabling a prospect of peaceful reunification.

A special defence agreement with Turkey, a sort of integration, which also holds true for foreign affairs should be pursued. quot (Ankara TRT Television Network, 18 July 1994)

The combatants of the two opposite factions ceased all hostilities instantly, and went on to build a formidable defensive perimeter in a perfect circle of 30 kilometers around the plateau located right in the middle of Daskasan.

NAIROBI The science of climate change has been on the defensive in recent weeks, owing to an error that dramatically overstated the rate at which the Himalayan glaciers could disappear.

If that happens, we can move forward to create a missile defense system that not only defends the Euro Atlantic community, but that also brings it together.

The Court convicted the company and imposed a fine of 80,000 NIS, as part of a plea bargain. (Cr.C.

But the Allies did not launch massive assaults and instead kept a defensive stance this was called the Phoney War in Britain or Drôle de guerre the funny sort of war in France.