Sentence examples for compromised defense from inspiring English sources

The challenge is to write a thriller that's both a courtroom drama and a police procedural, with perfectly balanced roles for Harry Bosch, the conscience-driven Los Angeles police detective who has long been Connelly's main man, and Mickey Haller, the ethically compromised defense attorney who's proud to call himself the "defender of the damned".

Enhanced disease susceptibility mutants including eds5, pad4, npr1 and sid2 have previously been reported to exhibit enhanced susceptibility and compromised defense responses to both virulent and avirulent isolates of Pst DC3000 [ 19, 20, 38].

He could have returned Knoblauch to second base, but Torre acknowledged that he did not because of Knoblauch's compromised defense.

First up, Sidney Lumet's film starring Henry Fonda as the president of the United States, who must deal must with a compromised defense system that may lead to World War III.

The ultimate test is whether the host, with its compromised defense mechanisms, is still capable of sustaining the total injury and continuing to defend itself against opportunistic pathogens.

Taken together, as expected the resistant GA06/18 genotype showed a compromised defense response when inoculated with VIGS construct 1 or 2 prior fungal inoculation.

However, one possibility is that, in the susceptible mice, the lower levels of Muc2 result in a network that may compromise defense because of inappropriate presentation or concentration of other host defense proteins in the environment of the worms.

"Now they have not compromised their defense, but they are a much better offensive team, and they have a tremendous amount of depth in shooting".

But more promising than the elegant step-back jump shots and crafty crossovers were the moments when Smith seized control of the offense, compromised the defense and found an open player.

"What you saw is a Cleveland team that used to play a lot of random offense, get the ball to LeBron and let him create something, and they would go through offensive droughts which compromised their defense," the TNT analyst Doug Collins said.

For example, neutrophils played a protective role at the early phase of infection with M. tuberculosis in one study; where neutrophil depletion significantly compromised host defense [45].