Example sentences for: defenses

How can you use “defenses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In April 1862, a Union naval force led by David G. Farragut capitalized on Confederate unpreparedness and penetrated the defenses of New Orleans.

  • But he warned against this tendency, saying that Israeli society's "unwillingness to sacrifice some of its standard of living to acquire better defenses against less concrete and immediate threats could be destructive."

  • Against the backdrop of the U.S. bombing campaign against Serbia, tension over the civil war in Chechnya, and Congress' failure to ratify a treaty banning nuclear tests, a Russian political establishment drifting toward intransigence seems unlikely to give the United States a free pass on missile defenses.

  • Our next (Republican) president should rebuild America's nuclear defenses.

  • They also respond by the localized activation of a cell-death program, designated the hypersensitive response (HR), and by the systemic activation of cellular and molecular defenses, termed systemic acquired resistance (SAR) [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ] . Second messengers that contribute to the development of the systemic response include reactive oxygen species (ROS), SA, JA and ethylene [ 8 9 10 ] . There is evidence for commonalities between plant responses to pathogens (referred to as defense responses) and environmental stresses (referred to as stress responses) [ 11 12 ] . Despite similarities, however, a plant's response to each environmental challenge is unique and tailored to increasing the plant's ability to survive the inciting stress [ 13 14 15 16 ] .


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