Life hardened and became defensive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Category 2 Defensive firearms and their ammunition as well as weapons and their ammunition used for marksmanship, shows and decoration

As long as such a hostile policy continues, the self defensive nuclear deterrent means will likewise continue to be strengthened.

Not surprisingly, a contagious globalization that increases vulnerability inevitably triggers preventive and defensive strategies that are not always proportionate or reasonable. The xenophobia and chauvinism that some of the defensive strategies can awaken may end up doing more harm than the threats from which they were intended to protect us.

The continued development of new nuclear weapons and defensive doctrines rationalizing their use were not consistent with the Treaty's strategic goals.

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

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

Well, the healthcare system has been transformed a culture pervaded with defensiveness, universal distrust of the system of justice, universal practice of defensive medicine.

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

It would seem sensible to distinguish between offensive and defensive weapon capabilities, but again, this is not an issue on which all nations agree.

In order to evade the criticism caused by unconstitutionality, Japan tried to cover up and sophistry to put the attack aircraft carrier under defensive weapons.

A deep Keaghan Jacobs free kick then found skipper Craig Halkett but his defensive partner Alan Lithgow could only stab wide at the back post.

The security fence was a temporary, non violent defensive measure to prevent suicide bombing and, contrary to the Special Rapporteur's predictions, had been dramatically successful.

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.

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.

On the flip side, only the top six had better defensive records though no other club could claim to regularly line up with four centre halves.

By eliminating free radicals from our body, we interfere with important defensive mechanisms for eliminating damaged cells, including cancerous cells. So antioxidant substances can also harm people.

Archeologists will dig us up in a thousand years and they won't know about defensive medicine and stuff, but they'll see all these labels, Contents are extremely hot.

As the economy struggled, optimism gave way to a more defensive and insular view that values self reliance. Accompanied by creeping economic controls, the narrative became more nationalistic.

The key questions are whether NATO s doctrine of common defense is currently directed at one country in particular, and whether nuclear force remains the Alliance s major defensive tool.

The nationalist impulse can be aggressive or defensive, directed against others or inward looking. Either way, it vitiates all attempts to create an international community of open societies.

The Ethiopian Armed Forces maintained their forward positions, which they continue to characterize as defensive, 25 to 40 kilometres from the southern boundary of the Temporary Security Zone.

In most cases, Government forces were on the defensive as the rebel movements conducted small scale attacks against Government convoys or small units of army or police personnel.

In the work of WIPO, particular focus should be given to defensive protection of indigenous traditional knowledge aimed at preventing unauthorized obtention of intellectual property rights over its use.

Views also differ on whether weapons used for the defensive or peaceful use of space would be classified in the same way as offensive space or anti space capabilities.

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

As a result of the Palestinian leadership's failure to confront terrorism, Israel was left with no choice but to find defensive measures to protect itself, such as the security fence.

Other experts reported on use by their communities of intellectual property tools to protect aspects of indigenous traditional knowledge, particularly to provide defensive protection against unauthorized or inappropriate use by others.

But above all, what we have to do is we have to help the good guys, the people on the defensive side, have an advantage over the people who want to abuse things.

But a cultural heritage should not be maintained everywhere, nor should it ignore cost. And it should not be a defensive policy of the sort that tends to concentrate on poor quality land.