Sentence examples for constant defense from inspiring English sources

It has proved surprisingly solid over time, but it requires constant defense — as we are reminded by the belated emergence of the memorial slogan "Je Suis Ahmed" — after Ahmed Merabet, the Muslim policeman who was killed protecting Charlie Hebdo's right to caricature his religion.

I'd rather live life through a lens that sees the world as one that is beautiful and kind, instead of being in a state of constant defense, layered with armor to protect me from what may, or may not happen, Stop waiting for the other shoe to drop -- it is the root cause of much unnecessary anxiety.

In plants grown under normal light conditions or constant darkness defense-related stimuli result in suppression of FORCA-mediated reporter gene expression, while in plants grown under constant light exposure, defense-induction results in enhanced FORCA-mediated expression.

In a constant downpour, the defense eventually became porous.

In "Hope," he writes, "These efforts seem exhausted, a constant game of defense, bereft of the energy and new ideas needed to address the changing circumstances of globalization or a stubbornly isolated inner city".

The local power of the army and the constant need for defense led to the formation of a militarized landed aristocracy and indeed to a military identity for free landowners at all levels and thus to social patterns that were not at all unlike those in the Lombard states.

While permanent defenses evolve under constant predation pressure, inducible defenses are adaptations to heterogeneity in predation risk [ 1] and likely evolved under divergent selection regimes.

While the U.S. is now spending almost $700 billion annually (constant dollar terms) on defense -- a $300 billion increase over defense spending in 2000 -- major cutbacks to levels of a decade ago would both keep U.S. defenses strong and provide almost $300 billion annually for deficit reduction.

Peterson, though, had been a constant in the Giants' defense.

The best defense is constant attention; young plants are easy to pull out.

In a camp in which there has been almost constant talk about the defense's adjustment to a new system, and about how quickly quarterback Vinny Testaverde can learn the new West Coast offense, the offensive line has operated behind a scrim.