Sentence examples for Inner defence from inspiring English sources

Certainly as long as Tony Blair is prime minister, the usually stand-offish British are likely to want to be part of an inner defence core.

The Global Times said the Cowpens came within 30 miles of the Chinese squadron, inside what it called its "inner defence layer".

But poorer, pro-American countries, notably from central and eastern Europe, sense a plot to keep them out of an inner defence group that would be dominated by France and Germany.

In her book, Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat, Curtis argues that our inner defence mechanism probably extends to other signposts of disease: the sweaty, unkempt appearance of someone who is unwell; the smell of rotten food; the sight of rats, flies and parasitic worms.

The next day at 19 30 the brigade moved back to man the inner defence line.

The village had been fortified with a line of trenches around the outskirts and an inner defence zone of five pillboxes and all the house cellars, which had been converted into shell-proof dug-outs.

The inner defences are strongest at this point, with a cluster of towers connected by a thick wall.

The besiegers under Regent Mar had only seven guns, and while they did manage to breach the Flodden Wall, the inner defences were too strong for an assault.

The barbican today is only half of its original height, and includes its own gate, designed to trap intruders within the inner defences.

The central island held Caerphilly's inner defences, a roughly square design with a walled inner and middle ward, the inner ward protected by four turrets on each of the corners.

Around 16:45 the field artillery batteries of Józef Bem were free to leave the safety of the inner defences, return to the battlefield, and open fire on the Grand Battery.