By the late 4th and 5th centuries, Roman fortresses were being built on easily defensible ground with irregular outlines that conformed to the topography; clearly, passive defense had become the dominant design consideration.
Using crime data for Seattle, this study investigated the effectiveness of CPTED principles associated with two different space design approaches (i.e., permeable space and defensible space) with respect to reducing residential crime.
The brief was for a defensible space, with no place to hide, and no complicated elements that would be hard to maintain or easy to damage.
Far less defensible, along with the racism, was the short-sightedness of his car-centric vision: Moses simply couldn't comprehend a future in which mass transit, bicycles or walking might play a central role.
After Thursday's newspapers explain how (defensible) fiddling with thresholds will mean more strivers paying 40% tax, Mr Osborne could find that the resentment he had hoped to rouse against the workless will turn back on him instead.
Whether Commius headed for an existing Atrobates settlement at Silchester, or started to build on a greenfield site, a defensible hill with excellent views, near the navigable Kennet and Thames, is, Fulford suggests, "a million-dollar question – why here?" They have found nothing earlier than 50BC – yet.
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is a discipline that offers a defensible methodology with requisite structure to ensure that the initiative stays on track towards its dual objectives of mission effectiveness and installation resiliency, and avoids superficially focusing upon narrowly-defined thermodynamic targets (e.g., zero net energy, water and/or waste).
But other Republicans maintain their position is defensible, consistent with what they say is the Senate's co-equal role in the process to offer advice and consent — or in this case the lack thereof.
Importantly, a policy of selective referral to coronary angiography based upon high-risk findings is defensible, patients with mild to moderate abnormalities managed medically having outcomes comparable to those undergoing invasive evaluation and subsequent angioplasty [ 133].
Our paper provides further insight into the ethical dilemmas and ethical challenges met by high level decision-makers', which is important since the overall responsibility for elder care that is also ethically defensible rests with them.
