He recently confided in an internal document that a conciliatory approach to Beijing on trade was not yielding results and suggested that greater use should be made of trade-defense instruments.
Their findings have been remarkably consistent in supporting the hierarchy of defenses, suggesting that instruments which could readily yield an accurate assessment of defensive functioning would prove clinically useful in identifying characteristic personality traits.
Elizabeth Weinfield, who leads the New York viol group Sonnambula, recently wrote a spirited defense of her instrument.
That simple observation, presented in a letter from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, summarizes Google's single best line of defense against the blunt instruments of government regulatory dismemberment.
The Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ) is the most widely used self-report instrument for defense measurement with validated versions in numerous languages, including Chinese, Dutch, Arabic, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Norwegian [ 20].
The French prime minister, François Fillon, told members of the governing party this week that "we are stuck with a major difficulty — to convince Germany that we should arm the euro zone with an instrument of defense for our currency with a certain evolution of the role of the central bank".
Finally, gurus sold Cubic, a San Diego, Calif.-based technology company that designs and manufactures a variety of systems and instruments for both defense and mass transit.
But things gather pace when the sword becomes an instrument of personal defense.
