Sentence examples for defence increase from inspiring English sources

It will be the first defence increase the country has seen in 24 years.

Bellamy himself was desperately close with a 20-yard free-kick and then the pressure on the Hammers' defence increased when Tomkins received his second yellow card, for a foul on Campbell.

The method is then used in a range of optimisation problems covering the design of a coastal defence, increasing fluid damping within an oscillating box by the addition of baffles, and design of a multi-body configuration for minimum drag in supersonic flow.

We cannot therefore support a common military defence, increased defence costs financed from the Community budget or a collective defence clause.

MPs warn that the flood defence maintenance budget is shrinking as the number of defences increases.

Herbivory-induced volatiles function as defences increasing fitness of the native plant Nicotiana attenuata in nature.

Other plants that sense (eavesdrop on) the volatiles up-regulate their own defences, increasing their fitness if they are attacked by herbivores (Karban et al. 2014).

Acting on adenosine receptors (AR), adenosine augments antioxidant defences, increases oxygen supply, improves blood flow, inhibits the release of neurotransmitters, stabilises cells by stimulating K+ channels and inhibiting Ca2+ channels, triggers anti-inflammatory responses, and promotes antiapoptotic pathways [ 4– 6].

Given there appears no obvious cure for a shaky defence, an increase in potency will be vital.

It was the "lowest defence budget increase in six years", the official news agency Xinhua said, adding it came "in the wake of rising economic headwinds and last year's massive drawdown of service people".

Alteration in antioxidant defence and increase in oxidative stress that results in tissue injury is characteristic of diabetes.