Sentence examples for a general defence from inspiring English sources

The BBC's immediate response was a general defence of everything Gilligan had said, and that included the indefensible.

Next morning came the bad news that the final part of our trip, the night train from Munich to Paris, had been cancelled; disappointing, because I had hoped to mount a general defence of sleeper trains, which are quietly being phased out across Europe.

Sensing PAMPs triggers a general defence response referred to as PAMP-triggered immunity (PTI), which operates against most pathogens.

Whatever the fate of such a general defence of the notion of a structural analogue, there is another (compatible yet independent) response.

This can be contrasted with the United States doctrine of fair use, which provides a general defence rather than rigid and specific categories of acceptable behaviour.

Robert Potter's 1783 is a general defence of Gray, John Scott's Critical Essays (1785) praised the poem along with a close analysis of the text, and Wakefield's 1785 edition of Gray's poems refuted various statements made by Johnson in the notes to the text.

We also observed that a number of genes that play or that may play a role in general defence responses are over-expressed in esk1-5 in control conditions.

Plant acids are known to have anticarcinogenic activity [ 19]. and phenolic compounds are believed to be an important part of the general defence mechanism of many plants against infections [ 20].

Overcoming these general defence responses is a pre-requisite for the two next stages of ectomycorrhizal development in which the mycelium ensheaths the root during mantle formation.

The case heightened their wariness of Mr Sisi who as a general and defence minister overthrew the elected president, Mohammed al-Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood member, in July 2013.

We find that although there was an overlap between the two hosts in terms of general defence, the moderately resistant host was able to regulate defence responses such as hormone levels that may limit the spread of the disease.