Sentence examples for defences include the from inspiring English sources

The city's new defences include the world's largest drainage pump station (whose 11 pumps can fill an Olympic swimming pool in four seconds), along with a series of closure gates designed to prevent water from funnelling into canals and other more vulnerable channels.

These indirect (carnivore attracting) defences include the release of herbivore-induced volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and secretion of extrafloral nectar (EFN).

Tasmania had also a small Torpedo Corps, while Western Australia's only naval defences included the Fremantle Naval Artillery.

More basic defences included the placing of heavy weights over the coffin, or simply filling the grave with stones rather than soil.

Covering the approach, the monitors opened fire on German shore defences, including the powerful "Tirpitz" battery, which carried 11 inches guns.

The country hosts several hundred US trainers who are part of a military program to bolster the kingdom's defences, including the stationing of F16 fighter jets that use Jordanian airfields to hit IS positions in Syria.

Then, he assaults the fort and captures the outer defences including the fixed guns, killing Edwardson in the process before finally destroying the fort's command post and lowering the Company's flag from the nearby flagpost.

The draining of Norfolk's coastal marshes commenced in the late 17th and 18th centuries, and sea defences including the "Old Lord's Bank" at Titchwell were shown in maps from 1786 and 1797.

The main impact was psychological; creating popular fear of an impending Japanese invasion and forcing the Australian military to upgrade defences, including the commencement of convoy operations to protect merchant shipping.

Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L). is a model plant for studies of inducible indirect anti-herbivore defences including the production of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and extrafloral nectar (EFN).

Other planks of the Gehry defence include the fact that, pre-Bilbao, his architecture was not about titanium monuments, but making the most of humble materials, such as plywood and the chain-link fencing that is much used in his adopted home town of Los Angeles.