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This defensive maneuver quashed one dangerous story line--"Why are all the Republicans losing?"
It is built in a square, and the only way in is through the gate in the brick defensive wall.
Soon after this, the Spanish began building a thick defensive wall all around San Juan.
ATIRCM/CMWS is a defensive countermeasure system for protection against infrared guided missiles.
—and although they are phylogenetically distant, these pathogens seem to have independently recruited similar secreted proteins to inhibit the defensive proteases produced by their hosts.