Sentence examples for adopt defensive from inspiring English sources

Similarly, parasites can cause hosts to adopt defensive strategies that reduce infection risk.

Predators often cause prey to adopt defensive strategies that reduce predation risk.

A board's decision to adopt defensive devices which "lock up" a merger mandate special scrutiny under the two-part test set forth in Unocal.

The High Contracting States will jointly invite third States whose internal peace is menaced by the disintegrating work of the Communistic International, to adopt defensive measures in the spirit of the present Agreement or to participate in the present Agreement.

According to Montessori, children, who are the unhappy victims of adult suppression, have been compelled to adopt defensive measures foreign to their real nature in the struggle to hold their own.

It warned that "China's armed forces will adopt defensive emergency measures to respond to aircraft that do not co-operate in the identification or refuse to follow the instructions".China released a map of its new zone (pictured to the right) and said enforcement was in immediate effect.

The marines and the hostage-rescue team adopted defensive positions.

They adopted defensive strategies when their country was weak and pursued expansive goals, such as territorial acquisition, enemy destruction, and total military victory, when their country was strong.

I pass over the practical difficulty implied by this balancing test: how can a board know, at the time of adopting defensive devices, the terms of a transaction that emerges at a later time?

Both teams adopted defensive tactics in the first half but Donegal showed the greater ability to break tackles as Frank McGlynn and youngster McHugh were able to burst into threatening positions on a number of occasions.

Captain Preston immediately called out most of the 29th Regiment, which adopted defensive positions in front of the state house.