The Portuguese formed a defensive square.

(xiii) Construction of defence bunkers

And there's some obvious ones.

Life hardened and became defensive.

So your best response of defense is trying to be undetected.

She became very defensive, almost violent.

The homeland war was a defensive, just and legitimate war.

And it reminded me why I play defensively in things like my house.

It's just my little defensive mechanism, as you call it.

Selective memory is a defense mechanism with which we are all familiar.

At the same time, the forces were modernized and reoriented towards a defensive posture.

The Framework also lists a total of 1,622 defense organizations.

For many years, it needed virtually no budget for defence.

Bilateral efforts should also be launched to develop other defense technologies.

18. EAU presupposes the establishment of a single defence area in order to coordinate defence activity

India and Japan should, for example, jointly develop new defense capacities.

He decided upon a full scholarship from the University of Miami to play defensive tackle.

In this connection, the promotion of defensive postures for armed forces would be useful.

We must attack the narcotics cartels from strong regional and multilateral defences.

In response, a new Japanese defense review identified China as a threat.

This force is defensive and there is no intention to increase its strength or develop its offensive capability in the future.

In order to reach UCA, it was necessary to pass through the defence cordons of the military complex.

Europe is preoccupied with its attempt to save the eurozone, and has no common foreign or defense policy.

Firstly, the concealment of the MOTAPM, as a major defensive weapon, has important military significance.

Local governments that were inept tended to act defensively, thus undermining and impairing the involvement of communities.

And so, they're joining China, whose doctrine of use for 15 years has been both defensive and offensive.

So, you just had a hugely defensive stalemate.

At the same time, though, there is no hesitation about waging a tough defensive war against Palestinian terrorism.

Now the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina are being asked to choose between a just, defensive war and an unjust peace.

One potential mechanism for advancing these objectives is a South American Defense College, now under consideration.

The main elevation is articulated by four turrets with a central clock tower (a gift from Sir Paul Chater in 1930).

... To many in the media CAMERA is ... an advocacy group trying to impose its pro Israeli views on mainstream journalism.

As a defensive weapon, MOTAPM should mainly be used by countries within their own territory against foreign invasion.

But we still have very defensive attitudes and little ability to meet these new challenges aggressively.

The seizure of the Paracel Islands from Vietnam in 1974 by Chinese forces was another example of offense as defense.

As the economy struggled, optimism gave way to a more defensive and insular view that values self reliance.

When they do bring it up to employers, for example they use apologetic, self defeating language.

Yet, in the absence of a European government, there can be no common defense policy, let alone a common army.

The Austrian Army did develop a defense plan in 1938 against Germany, but politics prevented it from being implemented.

These consequences would be even more serious than the possible destabilizing effect of the introduction of strategic missile defence systems.

MOTAPM with anti handling devices (AHD) are a defensive weapon permissible according to international humanitarian law.

(d) The Namibian Army is an extremely young and small defensive force of some 7,000 servicemen and women.

Many new initiatives now being put in place are defensive responses to existing regional trading arrangements.

So there's a very sharp decline in liberal ideas in the Muslim world, and what you see is more of a defensive, rigid, reactionary strain, which led to Arab socialism, Arab nationalism and ultimately to the Islamist ideology.

As for climate change, the positions of the emerging economies were until mid 2009 negative or defensive.