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Example sentences for: defensive

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The New York Times raises the possibility that Milosevic's defiance shows the bombing strategy was "fatally flawed" and adds that "NATO officials here are on the defensive, insisting day after day that it was not their bombing that sparked the Serbian attacks or the huge civilian forced exodus from Kosovo."
The Ottoman admiral bypassed the defensive chain by having his ships dragged overland under cover of darkness, opening a second attack.
ATIRCM/CMWS is a defensive countermeasure system for protection against infrared guided missiles.
Such remarks inspire Storr's rather defensive observation that "unlike fascist art and architecture, Smith's sculptures and buildings were insistently built to human rather than superhuman scale."
Their change of expression (or lack thereof) is itself a comment on the meaning of nakedness--many appear more defensive unclothed, as if to counteract any vulnerability--and the effect is almost anti-erotic.