Sentence examples for a defensive axis of from inspiring English sources

It is clear, though, that Ferguson regards Jones and Smalling as a defensive axis of the future, even if Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand remain the men for the present.

Under Rabah Saadane, an impermeable defensive axis composed of veteran defenders was established.

He would played at the European Championships had the Olympic team manager also taken the national side to Poland but he was part of a central defensive axis with West Ham United's James Tomkins which looked deeply, deeply uncomfortable.

Together with Germany, it forms a natural defensive axis through the continent.

"There may be a defensive lack of documentation," he said.

We are creating a new Axis of Intervention.

Too cute, there being Axes you might follow: an Axis of Continuity, an Axis of the Holocaust.

Instead of devising a policy toward North Korea, Mr. Bush devised an epithet: "the axis of evil".

President Bush's accusation that Iran belongs to an "axis of evil" has transformed the sharply divided political landscape here, bolstering old guard conservatives who had seemed on the defensive.

Earlier this year, President Bush identified Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil".

President Bush included North Korea in an "axis of evil".