General Nathanael Greene advocating moving the entire Continental Army to this position, believing the Christina River to be a more defensible point, but Washington declined, instead ordering Maxwell to monitor British movements and slow its advance while the rest of the army fortified the Red Clay Creek and Wilmington.
In his book "Battle of Brooklyn," John Gallagher writes of the road, "Where it passed through the hills, it was called Clove Road because it 'clove through,' making a pass that was an easily defensible choke point".
Whether or not this view is finally defensible, the point here is just that such a Pyrrhonian compromise is available and attractive to those who want to avoid dogmatic moral skepticism but see no way to refute it.
The Strata Diocletiana, built after the Persian Wars, which ran from the Euphrates North of Palmyra and South towards northeast Arabia in the general vicinity of Bostra, is the classic Diocletianic frontier system, consisting of an outer road followed by tightly spaced forts – defensible hard-points manned by small garrisons – followed by further fortifications in the rear.
Among their mansions they built an armory in 1880, "defensible from all points against mobs".
The discount element is – up to a point – defensible.
We want to play fearless rugby to a point but don't want to tap and go when you can take three points Stuart Lancaster Less defensible has been the way that the arrival of this tournament has seen a central part of Lancaster's selection strategy cast aside.
Whether their use is right or morally defensible is a moot point for administrations since ethics and morality will never trump safeguarding the nation's security.
Several other cut points would be defensible, for example, removing individuals with more than 3 missing landmarks, 5, and so forth.
From Europa Point, which pushes into the sea on the south side, to the highest point of the Rock, there is not a single point that has not been put into a defensible condition... Proceeding towards Europa Point, at the entrance of the town, fortifications, magazines, barracks, and batteries are placed wherever the nature of the surface would permit".
