Exploring the right balance between confronting participants with unexplored perspectives on the one hand and respecting their defences on the other hand was found to be present in each of the groups.
The Ottoman governor had assumed no one could cross and had set no defences on the desert side.
Crucially, the defences on the river Cocker held (in the main).
Perhaps that's for the best, though – you wonder what Dale could do to Football League defences on a regular basis.
In the past, flood experts based defences on historical records; on how to withstand once-a-century deluges.
It can try to organise its defences on western lines, paying for armed forces from an essentially civilian economy.
Nato allies today agreed to send aircraft and ships to Turkey to strengthen air defences on its border with Syria.
Still, some of Mr Bush's officials talk airily of defences on land, at sea, in the air, even in space.
Two minutes later things were all square again, Rhys Webb doing what he does best in putting defences on the back foot.
The other £30m will be spent repairing defences on the Wharfe, Calder, Aire, Ouse and Derwent, including repairs to pumping and barriers and clearing blockages in rivers.
Regime soldiers have been fixed in their positions several kilometres from the battered city limits, while rebels have shored up defences on their side of the ruins.
