The phrase "a form of defensive" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks clarity.
It can be used when discussing strategies or behaviors that serve to protect or shield against something, but it needs to be part of a more complete thought.
Example: "In psychology, denial can be seen as a form of defensive behavior that protects the individual from facing uncomfortable truths."
Alternatives: "a type of defense" or "a method of protection".
This kind of treatment is a form of defensive medicine, meant less to protect the patient than to protect the doctor or hospital against potential lawsuits.
Publication gives you a form of defensive strategy, preventing others from patenting your good idea.
The rise in the caesarean section rate has been viewed as a form of defensive practice in a number of developed countries including the UK and the USA [ 31, 32].
It's understood that Mayweather often elects to throw fewer punches, opting for a stouter form of defensive boxing — rattling off a combination or two, winning the round and receding.
Since running is an alternative form of defensive behavior23,34, we next analyzed locomotor behavior excluding all freezing and grooming bouts, hence only periods classified as walking (>4 mm s−1).
The Cow Tower was deliberately designed to house gunpowder artillery when it was first built, making it a very rare form of defensive structure for its time: the only equivalents in England are God's House Tower in Southampton, and the West Gate at Canterbury.
Many managers in this group practice a form of denial we call "defensive avoidance": Rather than acknowledging a problem and taking steps to correct it, they convince themselves that the problem doesn't exist.
For example, worker Forelius pusillus ants have a form of pre-emptive suicidal defensive behavior (Tofilski et al. 2008).
Already an orthodoxy and inevitability have shaped around it: if you take what was traditionally red, add a bolt of blue in the form of defensive nationalism, then of course you get purple – it has the solidity of a physical law.
And third, how would a board determine, in advance, that one particular form of defensive device, would be the "least coercive" of any array of devices?
Lung, who first teaches his particular form of defensive martial arts to young fellow immigrants (which provides a metaphor for the film's title) and then cooks in New York's Chinatown, gets the same unwelcoming treatment as that experienced by the visiting parents in Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story.
