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The word "defensive" is a correct and usable word in written English and it can be used as an adjective or a noun
Example sentence: He adopted a defensive posture when speaking in public.
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defensive
adjective
Intended for defence; protective.
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Taking one point from BMO Field could be seen as a good thing and the comeback might temporarily drown the lackluster defensive performance for Les Bleus de Montreal' There isn't a defense problem at the Impact: there is a "defensive" mind-set problem at the Impact.
"It is really important for the party that it is not defensive about the past but is absolutely honest and clear-eyed and faces up to the truth of what people are saying".
Moore, in his home debut, scored his first goal for Toronto with a tap-in in stoppage time after a defensive miscommunication.
Ibrahimovic's first shot rebounded off the defensive wall.
The spray, which proved a success at World Cup 2014 in Brazil during the summer, is used to mark the distance between the ball and the defensive wall, making it harder for the defending side to encroach.
The 1985 Bears were bona fide pop cultural icons – punky QB Jim McMahon would join the show later that season ahead of Super Bowl while Walter Payton and Mike Ditka also made appearances – yet none came with the fanfare of Chicago's 335lb defensive tackle and occasional short-yardage runner.
Here Schürrle had a secondary role too, his acceleration and willingness to run behind Arsenal's high defensive line a vital quality in the absence of a genuinely pacy centre-forward.
Of the starting XI, only four of them played three days earlier, in what is theoretically your strongest side: the goalkeeper, two full-backs and a defensive midfielder.
It's this kind of defensive response that makes it so hard to speak out about sexism.
Ryan Lambert at Puck Daddy has some: "His personal underlying numbers (relative corsi of 9.0, fourth on the team) only seem to get better as he's sheltered from tough competition — he's facing the weakest opponents of anyone on the Flames, as you might expect — and beginning just 25 percent of his shifts in the defensive zone, and yet 48.5 percent end there.
It may be that the police service does not communicate with the public it serves enough to explain the dilemmas that have to be faced by a modern police force before problems emerge, but the danger in the present atmosphere is that the service may become defensive and isolated.
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