Sentence examples for certain defence from inspiring English sources

A deal would shake up the global aerospace industry, but the companies said that certain defence contracts "would be ring-fenced… particularly in the USA".

"I think what we were trying to say was that she has certain defence mechanisms for dealing with the fact that she was very unhappy … I don't think that she loved drinking or one-night stands; I just think she was very immature".

Although the resistance mechanism conferred by the wheat germin gene is uncertain, a number of possibilities have been suggested, including the direct effects of increased levels of H2O2 on the insect herbivore, increased signalling leading to the upregulation of certain defence genes, and the modification of plant cell wall chemistry, decreasing the palatability of the transformed plants.

Our results thus sketch a subtle picture in which there are strong genotype × genotype interactions, but still certain defence systems may have more impact than others.

Progress has been made in terms of making the common foreign and security policy operative, and certain defence elements have even been raised.

Bad writers bulwark themselves against a confrontation with their own badness by reference to other writers with whom they feel they share certain defence-worthy characteristics.

On the other hand, typical exposure to gas from cookers is in the form of high peaks of pollutants, and in case of repeated exposure peaks, certain lung defence mechanisms may be overwhelmed, especially in subjects who are more vulnerable.

In fact, beside their harmful roles during the phase of a necrotrophic intracellular nutrition, fungal proteases were found to be secreted already during the earlier intercellular colonisation of spike rachis, probably to suppress certain plant defence reactions by degrading PR-proteins [ 15, 20, 21, 96, 103].

But perhaps the virulence of the attack suggests a certain self-defence.

The revised document says it is a presentation of the "fundamental aspects of the case against him, and a preliminary legal analysis of liability for torture, and a response to certain anticipated defences.

They are asked to send troops for joint training, spend a certain amount on defence and so on.