Sentence examples for a defensive purpose from inspiring English sources

In nature these toxins serve a defensive purpose; indeed, D. auratus has very few natural predators.

Schulz's obsessiveness about his strip, he said, seemed to have a defensive purpose.

Some paleontologists suggested that the enormous weaponry of the Irish elk served a defensive purpose, to kill predators and fight off rivals for mates.

Glen Powell of Imperial College London and colleagues have now shown, in a paper in The Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciencess, that this chemical warfare system does in fact serve a defensive purpose.

This clause requires Twitter to seek approval of the inventor for any assertion that is not for a defensive purpose.

If Assignee needs to assert any of the Patent claims against any entity for other than a Defensive Purpose, Assignees must obtain prior written permission from all of the Inventors without additional consideration or threat.

There is no evidence that the moat served any defensive purpose, and as with many other moated sites it was probably intended as a status symbol.

Rapid forces, whether for an offensive or defensive purpose, were needed to deny vital locations to the enemy.

Insight means understanding how a problem emerged and what defensive purpose it serves.

"The F-35 is a weapon of offensive war, serving no defensive purpose," reads the petition now in circulation, initiated by a dozen organizations.

3.40am BST Email Christopher Henderson writes: Has a team ever replaced a player for defensive purposes while down four runs in a must-win game?