Washington and Seoul say it is a routine defensive exercise.
Hooker sent new orders: break off the fight. Return to Chancellorsville. Put up defensive positions.
The Cobham supplied system is an aircraft baseline requirement, integral to the defensive capabilities of the Eurofighter.
'And in the military realm it's difficult or impossible to distinguish offensive from defensive intent,' she says.
Western forces are on the defensive, in spite of all the ludicrously cheery war bulletins – shades of Good Morning Vietnam - from NATO public relations officers.
It was clear that the students of Beida(北大)were not lacking in self-confidence and did not feel at all defensive about China's intellectual and moral position in the world.
This is an example of defensive programming.
An assault from a defensive position; a sortie.
The principles of the offensive are applied when the enemy is on the defensive.
The two defensive ends play on opposite outside edges of the defensive line. Their function is to attack the passer or stop offensive runs to the outer edges of the line of scrimmage.
If he goes to a team where there's a legitimate go-to-scorer, Iggy would thrive as a No. 2 option and defensive stopper.
He became noticeably defensive.
Their missiles are viewed as a defensive and deterrent force.
Wailing "You never listen to me" will only make them defensive.
Ratliff has been primarily a defensive stopper in his 15 years in the NBA, even earning All-Star honors in 2001.
It's a culture of 'having it all' and yet very few of us can do this, which is why we get defensive about how we are seen as mothers.
The Great Wall is symbolic of such defensive concept.
His departure will signal a defensive crisis, with Ferdinand unlikely to start the season due to his knee injury.
And the global strategy of the United States, after its defeat in Southeast Asia, has shifted to the defensive -- the United States isn't ready to fight a world war yet either.
The infrared method can circumvent defensive strategies, such as shielding the keypad.
Nearby towns that were built around NASA's programs-cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, titusville-are already in a defensive crouch, like wobbly boxers waiting for a knockout punch.
But the Shabab is on the defensive.
The sixteen-character formula covered the basic principles for combating" encirclement and suppression"; it covered the two stages of the strategic defensive and the strategic offensive, and within the defensive, it covered the two stages of the strategic retreat and the strategic counter-offensive.
The less said the better about the team's cheap-shot fouls, blown defensive assignments and inexplicable lack of energy.
The Three Lions' defensive cornerstone made his international debut in2003 against Serbia& Montenegro.
The goal is to disturb the executive's equilibrium-and make the status quo untenable-without putting him or her on the defensive.
Story: Murdochs, Brooks apologetic - and on defensive.
They have disgusting defensive mechanisms.
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