Why so defensive, then?

Life hardened and became defensive.

Why are you so defensive about it?

The new century has dawned with us in an unenviable defensive posture.

If it's successful, it will revolutionize defensive warfare.

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

There's no need to feel so defensive, Maria.

Thus... we do disagreeable things... but we're defensive.

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

Aye, it just proves I'm a good defensive player.

Give every man an assigned defensive position he can get to in a hurry.

The measures undertaken, of an exclusively defensive nature, aimed against unscrupulous and well organized terrorist attacks, were strictly limited and have been carried out respecting the regulations and the security of citizens and their property.

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

This move has been characterized by Ethiopia as purely defensive.

It led to a significant increase in tensions, with the Forces nouvelles reinforcing their defensive positions.

They have shifted from defensive to offensive Iraqi led security initiatives.

Cairo's ordered us to take up defensive positions for two months.

We remain committed to ensuring the highest standards of responsibility in the use of these defensive weapons.

Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house

But when it comes to specifics, the familiar, defensive positions take over.

Today s tendency to view Muslim grievances in one dimensional terms reduces political discourse to a very simplistic level. Our interactions with Muslims may be unconsciously influenced by this defensive reflex, and that may encourage equally defensive attitudes on their part.

So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive.

Every gun on a B17 is designed... to give the group maximum defensive firepower.

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

If the expected results fail to materialize, States engaged in this process should consider taking coordinated defensive measures, particularly fiscal measures.

The principle of international solidarity and co operation must also apply to defensive measures. We recommend

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

Sixthly, efforts to find an alternative defensive means to replace anti personnel landmines should be intensified.

The Ethiopian Armed Forces maintained the dispositions that I described in my last report, which they continue to characterize as purely defensive.

Nothing in nature is useless.

And I was thinking, well I'm trying to think nature, nature, nature.

Since UNMOs do not carry defensive weapons, building relationships with belligerents can also play an important role in assisting UNMOs facing security challenges.

This development is equally reflected in the fact that supporters of the opposite view are increasingly on the defensive rather than the offensive.

German researchers, experimenting on mice, have found that the immune system, in addition to playing a defensive role, could also assist in the formation of cancer.

And you see that in nature.

I like taking walks in nature.

Beloved (by nature), equal in age,

Beloved (by nature), equal in age,

He was ambitious in his nature.

In fact, the interests of developing countries were much more complex, involving both defensive and offensive agendas that coalesced into a wider development agenda.

New technologies and ever changing tactics have, however, revealed their military utility to be quite modest in defensive operations and their strategic importance limited.

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

Developing countries should also have defensive preoccupations to consolidate domestic markets through support or protection of essential sectors.

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

Israel remains sensitive, however, to the impact of the necessary defensive measures it has been forced to take.