Sentence examples for a defensive maneuver from inspiring English sources

"They attacked me, and I made a defensive maneuver.

The Yankees aligned for a wheel play — a defensive maneuver intended to prevent a sacrifice bunt.

Google pursuit of patents is largely seen as a defensive maneuver, to deter lawsuits from rivals.

Should Anheuser-Busch make an offer to acquire 100% of Modelo as a defensive maneuver against InBev's planned takeover?

CVS Health's bid to buy Aetna, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, may be a defensive maneuver.

In a defensive maneuver, the two ranchers decided to put their cattle around the prairie dog town.

Clinton was executing a tactical, defensive maneuver.

Wilbur told her patient that the recantation was "a major defensive maneuver," merely the ego's attempt to trick itself into thinking it didn't need therapy.

AT&T's "streamlining" is a purely defensive maneuver.

"This was a normal defensive maneuver," says Platon Lebedev, the director of Group Menatep, the holding company that represents Khodorkovsky and his six partners.

This is a common defensive maneuver.