Sentence examples for defensive barricade from inspiring English sources

But the rules of online engagement with China have taken a nasty turn.As its nickname suggests, the Great Firewall is a defensive barricade against foreign web content which officials see as undesirable.

After 12 noon, they begin to construct defensive barricades against further police onslaught.

The powerful centre pairing Tevita Kuridrani and Reece Hodge helped shatter Wales's defensive barricades last weekend and if Australia have as much possession as they did in Cardiff it may be another long afternoon for their supporters.

The island site, like much of Copenhagen, is constructed on reclaimed land heaped over the centuries into defensive earthen barricades.

Charleston was principally located on a peninsula, and so Lincoln aligned his Continental units in defensive works that barricaded the "neck" of the peninsula, using a line of redoubts, redans, and batteries.

He plays power forward and center, and has become a barricade on the defensive end of the court, where he averages 2.6 blocks a game.

Granted, such a draconian measure sounds implausible, especially considering the fierce pro-gun lobby that pulls together at times like these, barricading itself behind defensive and inflammatory rhetoric.

He barricaded the soldiers into defensive positions and vowed a "massacre" if rebels attacked the base.

Carleton addressed the weak points of the town's defensive fortifications: he had two log barricades and palisades erected along the Saint Lawrence shoreline, within the area covered by his cannons; he assigned his forces to defensive positions along the walls and the inner defenses; and he made sure his inexperienced militia were under strong leadership.

Which is bad enough when you're just hearing about it on the phone from the safety of your own sofa, barricaded in by Christmas trees and defensive piles of crackers.

B9 Defensive Maneuvers FEARS AT HOME -- In Pendleton, Ore., barricaded airstrips and fear behind closed doors.