Sentence examples for a defensive way from inspiring English sources

Each Frenchman acts in a defensive way, as if he himself had been accused.

The reason to stop referring to military spending as "defence" is not so much that it's not always used in a defensive way as that it's almost never used in a defensive way.

"It's such a defensive way to live," said Seena Gershwin, who has lived in her East 50's co-op since 1979.

By putting a small number of troops into Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland we are simply asserting our legal right to protect those countries in a defensive way".

"What we're seeing now is a sentiment change with big corporates really paying more attention to innovation and investment, some in a defensive way and others genuinely looking at it as the future of their business.

The journalist began to talk about the newspaper in a defensive way, and Willie understood that the newspaper didn't like Indian independence and was not friendly to India, and that the journalist himself had written some hard pieces after his visit to the country.

Lying during a conflict may seem like a good, defensive way of getting someone to leave you alone but it binds you even more tightly to that person because you've made things less clear and have evaded your real needs rather than stood up for yourself.

"All they have to feel is a very minute threat to respond in a very defensive way".

Having established her take on class and status, Wilson makes the point again in a less defensive way on "Here for the Party" 's title track: "Well, I'm an eight-ball-shooting, drinkingisond drinking sof of a gun / I wear my jeans a little tight / Just to watch the little boys come undone".

That is a great defensive way to play the German internet sector".

Finally, Beckman Coulter is a cheap, defensive way to take advantage of biotechnology's future at 90% of revenue and 6 times cash flow.