Sentence examples for defence upon from inspiring English sources

One important aspect of many warning displays is the secretion of some or all of the chemical defence upon attack.

After being forced off Steeple Tree Hill, Miyake, commanding the main Japanese defensive unit, the 80th Infantry Regiment, decided to concentrate his defence upon the saddle at "Point 10" which was positioned to the west of the 2200 feature, at Sattelberg itself and on the 3200 feature to the north-west.

Increased defence upon pathogen attack during the daytime has largely been attributed to the length of the light period following infection [ 9].

More recent research, however, provides evidence for the activation of JA-mediated defence upon attack by phloem-sucking insects, such as aphids and silverleaf whitefly nymphs, which try to avoid tissue damage during feeding [ 5- 10].

When you have a column of armoured forces loyal to a ruthless dictator advancing on a city full of weakly-armed rebels (initially non-violent protestors who took up arms in self-defence) upon whom he has openly promised to wreak bloody vengeance, you pretty much have the paradigmatic case for military intervention.

"It should not be a vehicle by which the regulator or the defence comments upon the correctness or otherwise of the decisions," Quinlan says.

Because even including defence expenditure upon order and not delivery, under the new recording method the revised state deficit figures in the critical year (1999) became 3.1% of GDP against 2.5% of GDP previously.

The growing gulf between Saudi Arabia and its more sceptical western partners is nowhere more apparent than in the key area of security and defence cooperation, upon which the relationship was founded in 1915.

Appointed defence minister upon death of his brother Crown Prince Sultan.

The concern, he believes, is that "strategic defence impacts upon strategic offence; devaluing the deterrent value of Russia's own nuclear arsenal".

The Chamber pointed out that the imposition of a defence counsel upon an accused who does not want one was a feature of inquisitorial systems, but not of adversarial systems (Prosecutor v. Milošević 4 April 2003, para. 21).