Defensive
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And so, they're joining China, whose doctrine of use for 15 years has been both
defensive
and offensive.
More example sentences with word defensive
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.
So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the
defensive.
A lot of the time, when there's initial contact, if one of them is too much on the
defensive
side, the second one will sort of poke at it, grab at its tentacle and see, "Hey, do you want to fight me, do you want to turn around?
The
defensive
octopus tries to face away from the attacker until it's the critical moment it knows there's no way to avoid a fight.
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