Sentence examples for defense upon from inspiring English sources

In the breach, many settlers took their defense upon themselves.

She also exhibited obvious tenderness and muscular defense upon arrival.

Part of his strategy called for the acquisition of colonies in the Caribbean Sea which would serve as coaling and naval stations, and which would serve as strategical points of defense upon the construction of a canal in the Isthmus.

Recently, the same WRKY protein and its paralog HvWRKY2 have been described as repressors of the PAMP-triggered basal defense upon infection with Blumeria graminis [ 8].

Our data provide further insights into the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms repressing additional putative negative regulators of plant defense upon treatments with pathogen-mimicking stimuli.

All these data support the hypothesis that oysters, continuously exposed to an environment rich in microorganisms, have developed specific strategies of innate immunity to increase the antimicrobial defense upon infection through effector diversification.

At the end of the story called "Self-Defense," upon realizing the true background of a man he has recently helped release into the world, this defense lawyer lets loose a single muted expression of disgust, directed not so much at his client as at himself.

We reasoned that heightened oxidative defenses upon differentiation may render decidual cells largely unresponsive to environmental ROS, thus accounting for the restricted activation of MAPK pathways in response to H2O2.

There are at least three explanations for why water frogs continued to resist chytridiomycosis upon experimental innate-immune reduction: (1) Host frogs increased synthesis or expression of antimicrobial skin peptide defenses upon exposure to Bd. Skin peptides were initially reduced, but when collected again after 64 d, peptide levels had recovered to previous quantities.

A potential all-American, Church will need to continue his stellar play to help the Toledo defense improve upon its dismal 2007.

The defense seized upon the prosecution's unusual practice throughout the trial, and especially in closing, of simply raising questions of what might have happened, rather than proving its own case or presenting its own theory about the facts.