Sentence examples for defence in the form from inspiring English sources

A coastal defence in the form of the Delta Works was built for protection against future flooding.

These include increased cellular antioxidant defence in the form of higher glutathione and FtMt levels, higher GPx activity, and lower FtH levels.

This means that the transgenic plants employ only direct defence (by releasing protease inhibitor proteins that disrupt enzymes in the digestive system of the herbivores), whereas the wild-type plants employ both direct defence and indirect defence (in the form of herbivory-induced signalling).

Compared to J16 cells, HJ16 cells exhibited much higher resistance to H2O2-induced oxidative damage and necrotic cell death (up to 3 mM) and had enhanced antioxidant defence in the form of significantly higher intracellular glutathione and mitochondrial ferritin (FtMt) levels as well as higher glutathione-peroxidase (GPx) activity.

The south-west gateway was given extra defences in the form of earthworks before being abandoned and filled in.

Here are the comments: The hypothesis outlined in the title of this paper, that indirect defences in the form of herbivory-induced volatiles increase plant fitness, is being continuously discussed in the literature, without there being much definitive evidence for this phenomenon occurring in nature.

Daniel Keohane, of the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank, says the new EU constitution may well include a mutual defence guarantee but in the form of a protocol rather than in the main text; that will make it easier for neutrals like his native Ireland to opt out.

Once the size of the defence budget has been determined, choices are required about its allocation between each of the three armed forces and their contribution to the UK's defence output in the form of peace, protection and security for its citizens.

This secondary defence response in the form of the synthesis of Hsp70, the most conserved heat shock protein [35], did not yield a significant heritability estimate in either coral host population.

The field fortifications constructed throughout Britain included large numbers of hardened field defences: mostly in the form of pillboxes.

It was Dell'Utri's idea that the then media mogul's best form of defence was attack in the form of a political career which, in the event, protected him from justice for decades.