The site was a militarily defensible natural redoubt that was also an especially suitable site for a capital city, lying at the centre of the peninsula and adjoining the navigable Han River, one of the peninsula's major rivers flowing into the Yellow Sea.
Grand Port was an easily defensible natural harbour because the bay was protected from the open sea by a large coral reef through which a complicated channel meandered, known only to experienced local pilots.
After Roman occupation in the early Middle Ages some hillforts were reoccupied and petty kingdoms were often ruled from smaller nucleated forts using defensible natural features, as at Edinburgh and Dunbarton.
The site of Rome in central Italy provided many opportunities for the development of a city: access to natural resources, defensible terrain, a ford in the Tiber River, among others.
Finally, while the paper does invite further research, it is meant to provide defensible findings on the impacts of unconventional natural gas development.
Pruitt's use of a National Guard helicopter to visit the Liberty mine is less defensible than using one to survey a natural disaster or even to celebrate a sporting event, and the fact that he tried to hide information about this and other trips suggests that he knew as much.
The establishment of a defensible baseline for ecosystem productivity is important in Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) and other assessment studies so that an estimate of the ecosystem injury can be established.
Recently, this type of IP has appeared in the form of hardware (i.e., Internet of Things/connected devices), open-source technology with defensible communities and advanced software algorithms, including computer vision, machine learning, natural language process and security.
The defensible space theory revolves around the public housing environment and seeks to reduce crime through the use of natural surveillance, natural access control, and territorial concern.
Included here are discussions of defensible space, crime prevention through environmental design, assessment of lighting, CCTV, target hardening, natural surveillance, product design, and incivility/disorder.
Suppose that we were to have in hand satisfactory accounts of natural goodness and our knowledge of it, along with a rationally defensible account of the basic goods that are the fundamental reasons for action.
