Why so defensive, then?

Life hardened and became defensive.

Why are you so defensive about it?

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.

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

This move has been characterized by Ethiopia as purely defensive.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

When you pull a B17 out of a formation, you reduce the defensive power of the group by ten guns.

Together with Professor Lindt, we will produce a defensive weapon that will make all offensive nuclear weapons obsolete, and thereby...

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

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

The defensive intentions of my Government, with regard to the S 300 missile system, have been made very clear all along.

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 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.

However, the idea that it might elaborate a treaty banning anti personnel landmines is not gaining acceptance, because landmines are defensive conventional weapons.

The agreement sets ceilings for ground forces and combat and defensive aircraft within a 100 kilometre zone on both sides of these borders.

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

Therefore, the Paphos military airbase brought into service for use by the Greek military aircraft cannot be said to have a defensive purpose.

The second of these points relates primarily to the radiation effects on modern microelectronics, which is critical to both offensive and defensive systems.