Sentence examples for defensive character from inspiring English sources

Dry Bones is a defensive character, he is good in movement and defense but poor at shooting and passing.

"Many of his largest achievements," from balancing the budget to overhauling welfare, "had a defensive character".

Canon law took on a more defensive character, with prohibitions regarding books, mixed marriages, participation of Roman Catholics in Protestant worship and vice versa, education of the clergy in seminaries, and other such areas of concern.

The defensive character of many integration projects is in some cases eclipsed by a desire to reduce transaction costs within a regional space that is seeing growth in transnational production structures.

When America broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1979 and recognised China instead, Congress passed a law obliging the administration to "provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character" to guard against a hostile mainland.That support seems to be wobbling.

The arms deal, announced last month but in the planning stages since the administration of George W. Bush, falls under a law passed by Congress in 1979 that requires the United States to make "arms of a defensive character" available to Taiwan.

In spite of this community complexity, however, the long-term phylogenetic signal indicates a strong association between host defensive characters and parasitism, indicating that the mistletoe is responsible for the extremely long spines presented by some Chilean columnar cacti, and cacti have promoted the extremely long radicle in the mistletoe.

This view is rendered credible by characteristics such as its great ability to resprout and its investment in defensive characters such as spines and dense, hard wood impregnated with resins and crystals.

Already the Sandomierz Agreement of 1570, which was an early expression of Protestant irenicism later prominent in Europe and Poland, had a self-defensive character, because of the intensification of Counter-Reformation pressure at that time.

Much of this work is defensive in character, such as managing Kurdish autonomy to prevent a wider regional war, stopping the formation of an Al Qaeda mini-state in Anbar province, and challenging Iran's clandestine warfare.

Notwithstanding the North's strident claims that the US is planning an unprovoked assault on the North, the exercises - known as Key Resolve and Foal Eagle - are defensive in character and have been taking place routinely, in varying form, since the 1970s.