Sentence examples similar to defence tended from inspiring English sources

Should they meet Saracens again in the play-offs, it is hard to see them enjoying a different outcome unless they can keep Itoje quiet and take the attacking gambles that Saracens' defence tend to thrive on.

Afghanistan is a large country and the total size of organised fighting forces has been quite small (perhaps 50,000 on the Taliban side, 15,000 for the northern allies, when the war started); so lines of defence tend to be thin, and when they break, vast swathes of territory can change hands very quickly.

Models of territorial defence tend to omit two characteristics of many territorial systems: repeated intrusions by the same individual and the learning processes of residents and intruders.

Those who had worked in intelligence gathering – including Putin and Sergei Ivanov, Russia's hawkish former defence minister – tended to be brighter and more flexible.

Companies listed in the FTSE Aerospace and Defence sector tend to enjoy much higher stock market ratings than engineering companies.

But this time, I've had enough of the regular defence you tend to hear – the tired line that it's "just a laugh", a bit of "harmless fun".

Since the documents analysed here focus on security and defence, they tend to place special emphasis on the potential problems, in particular the following: The danger of region-to-region contagion of economic crises due to being part of an electronically connected and highly reactive financial system [9].

On the contrary, several studies have found inconsistency of specialized metabolite profiles at various taxonomic levels and indicated that specialized chemistry and anti-herbivore defence syndromes tend to be poorly correlated with plant phylogeny [ 6, 7, 13, 30].

Generally, the defence response genes tend to maintain lower levels of diversity.

Those who have challenged this defence of the Met have tended to point out the ways in which de Menezes's death was attributable to factors under police control, identifying examples of negligent behaviour.

The home side never looked alarmed in defence, but their own attacking endeavours tended to run into futility.