Sentence examples for defence to combat from inspiring English sources

By the time the Luftwaffe High Command (OKL) had begun organising an air defence to combat the United States Army Air Forces' (USAAF) strategic bombing campaign, they were already engaged in a war of attrition for which they were not prepared.

Schmidt thinks that understanding the process of spontaneous remission is vital, since it could help refine the emerging class of "immunotherapies" that hijack our natural defences to combat cancer.

They made the more assertive start and threatened to take the lead three times in the first 10 minutes, during which time the United defence failed to combat two corners from Gylfi Sigurdsson, resulting in headers from Gomis, who had one cleared off the line by Herrera.

Upon infection by microbial pathogens, plants activate a multitude of defence responses to combat the attacking intruders [ 1].

Thus, most patients were initially treated with hydroxyurea, busulfan or interferon alpha, the latter of which attempted to use the body's natural defence proteins to combat the disease.

Bacterial genomes and plasmids may encode a wide variety of defence mechanisms to combat phage infection, such as restriction-modification systems (R-Ms), abortive infective (Abi) systems and CRISPR-mediated immunity [ 8, 9].

Some are based on statistics, like the fact that there are one million women serving as members in village councils; others are small - yet significant - cultural shifts, such the increasing number of girls taking self-defence classes to combat sexual violence.

A defence system exists to combat ROS and to secure a redox-balance where oxidants are kept at nontoxic levels.

Oxidative stress occurs when natural defence systems are inadequate to combat the production of ROSs.

In the first, which is deadly serious, the Pentagon (where Jon Voight is Secretary of Defence) goes on red alert to combat these alien forces.

Oxidative stress as defence strategy is not restricted to combat fungal infections.