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277 examples of Defensive in a sentence

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.
And so, they're joining China, whose doctrine of use for 15 years has been both defensive and offensive.
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.
GG: Really, the one who's waiting to the last moment is the defensive octopus.
They've been in charge of offensive operations, that is hacking, but they've also been in charge of defensive operations, and traditionally they've always prioritized defense over offense based on the principle that American secrets are simply worth more.
CA: Now, you mentioned the threat of cyberattacks, and I don't think anyone in this room would disagree that that is a huge concern, but do you accept that there's a tradeoff between offensive and defensive strategies, and that it's possible that the very measures taken to, "weaken encryption," and allow yourself to find the bad guys, might also open the door to forms of cyberattack?
So when mathematicians are asked what math is for, they tend to fall into two groups: 54.51 percent of mathematicians will assume an attacking position, and 44.77 percent of mathematicians will take a defensive position.
He's one of the defensive ones.
There are two offensive and two defensive players, getting ready to do the pick-and-roll dance.
The way that we've been able to do that is to get past those defensive shells and really see the soft inside of unbelief and belief and try to respect each other while still holding boundaries clear.
To protect this masterpiece from its many enemies, Constantine's successors built the finest defensive fortifications ever made.
As a defensive measure, the enemy country responds by unleashing a defensive cyberattack that results in the allied nations' power grids going down.
The immune system relies on millions of defensive white blood cells, also known as leukocytes, that originate in our bone marrow.
We need to learn how to feel intrigued instead of defensive when we encounter some information that contradicts our beliefs.
We live in an age where truth is on the defensive.
Number three, we must go on the offensive, not the defensive.
It's why I have them memorize our 131-word defensive driving program perfectly, and then I have them rewrite it.
Life hardened and became defensive.
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.
Honed by several hundred million years of evolution, these defensive fronts have become exceptionally good at identifying foreign objects.
Unlike modern turtles, it couldn’t retract its head into its shell, but had defensive spines on its neck.
The attacking infantry advances steadily, their elephants already having broken the defensive line.
Well, the healthcare system has been transformed: a culture pervaded with defensiveness, universal distrust of the system of justice, universal practice of defensive medicine.
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."
Well, there are three main reasons why we don't have tens of thousands of small reserves: The first one is that people have no idea what marine reserves do, and fishermen tend to be really, really defensive when it comes to regulating or closing an area, even if it's small.
At work, unfairness makes people defensive and disengaged.
They could be good risk-takers, because they weren't too defensive and they weren't gambling to take huge rewards.
So science explains quite nicely why fairness is good and why unfairness makes us really defensive, but science also shows that in a fair environment, not only do we all want to be the square, but we tend to be the square, and this allows other people to be fair in turn.
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