Sentence examples for defences that from inspiring English sources

Slattery said the Environment Agency had built defences that had protected his home from flooding recently.

Japanese firms are embracing poison pill defences that might deter foreign bidders.

All that has gone, along with the improvised defences that used to ring the building.

It's confusion about Government investment in flood defences that is putting so many homeowners at risk.

Instead of erecting a single barrier, they now set up several lower defences that reduce rust's harm.

He said:  "The flood defences that were built here in 2012 haven't been breached, they have been over-topped.

Predator-prey relationships can give rise to an "evolutionary arms race" where prey species develop a variety of defences that protect them from their predators.

Sixty-eight years on, some of the military defences that lined the coasts of northern Europe – Allied countries' last line of defence from German attacks – still stand.

If you look at the state of our flood defences, over 1.3m homes have been protected by the flood defences that are in place.

This has allowed plenty of time for one of humankind's most vicious enemies to develop ways to beat the defences that were engineered to fight it.

· Bring local flood defences back up to their target conditions, with an additional £10m invested through the Environment Agency to repair defences that were damaged over the weekend.