Example sentences for: defenses

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  • The NYT seems to think that Warner-Lambert will attempt to fend off Pfizer in the courts, but the Journal notes that Warner-Lambert's anti-takeover defenses are weak: Shareholders, through a spontaneous mail-in election, can dismiss the entire board at any time.

  • Scorecard: Significant damage to the Serbs' air defenses and command centers, but not to Serb ground forces, which are escalating their assaults on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

  • TNFα and TNFβ have been extensively studied and are involved in immune and pro-inflammatory responses, playing an important role in host defenses against infection and other disease states [ 4 5 6 7 ] . The biological effects of TNFα and TNFβ are mediated through the two membrane associated receptors, TNFR1 (p55) and TNFR2 (p75), that are expressed on the target cells [ 8 9 ] . The postulated pathogenic roles for TNF include sepsis and other bacterial and viral pathologies [ 10 11 12 ] , certain cancers [ 13 ] , metastasis [ 14 ] and chronic autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis [ 15 16 ] , multiple sclerosis [ 17 ] and Crohn's disease [ 18 ] . It is worth noting that TNFα mutants have been identified that selectively bind TNFR1.

  • Huge legal fees involved in successful defenses against such charges by the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber are cited as creating the market.

  • Under a 99-year lease, the US acquired about one-tenth of the land area of Bermuda for the development of naval and air bases, modernizing the defenses of Britain’s “Gibraltar of the West.”


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