The phrase "active defences" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to security, military strategies, or cybersecurity, referring to measures taken to actively protect against threats.
Example: "The military implemented active defences to counter potential missile attacks."
Alternatives: "proactive defenses" or "dynamic defenses".
The document also underscores the need for active defences, including missile defences, and for possible pre-emptive measures.
These can all be countered to some extent by selecting different classes of armour or active defences too, so there's no one-size-fits-all weapon that'll give anyone an unfair advantage.
The Modern Benoni is one of Black's sharpest and most active defences against 1.d4.
However, Te-0 infected tissues showed no signs of active defences (ROS accumulation, callose deposition, or cell death), in a response clearly distinguishable from that of infected Kas-1 tissues.
Thus, the following evidences support the possibility that Te-0 is altered in components necessary for compatibility with G. cichoracearum: i) genetic nature of plant resistance (recessive), ii) susceptibility of the plant to other biotrophic pathogens, including a close relative species; iii) absence of active defences (markers of PTI, ETI, SA and JA pathways) in this interaction.
If the host is not able to activate an active defence syndrome, like in the case with the tolerant Tugela- Dn2, an alternative defensive strategy must be sourced.
But they can at least lay booby-traps to confuse and deter – a concept known as "active defence".
One senior official was said to have claimed that Turkey had moved to "active defence from passive defence".
A large minority, descendants of old cold-war socialists, would never brook Mr Koizumi's calls for more active defence forces.
The Soviet army, on the basis of a strategic plan prepared by Stalin long before, used the tactics of so-called "active defence," i.e., tactics which, as we know, allowed the Germans to come up to Moscow and Stalingrad.
The Bosnians held off from active defence because they thought NATO would provide air support; the UN refrained from seeking NATO support, at least in part, because it feared for the lives of the Dutch soldiers.The Dutch have reluctantly blamed themselves, and been blamed by others, for failing to use whatever limited room for manoeuvre they had.
