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Italy, the younger line-up, called upon know-how to survive, with the captain Fabio Cannavaro commanding the final with another demonstration of defensive acumen and, as required, grit.

After the circus that surrounded the game against the Cobblers, the Londoners needed to guard against a sense of anti-climax at Adams Park but the clean sheet was a reassuring demonstration of defensive discipline, so we see no reason to turn our noses up at odds of 5/1 about the visitors here.

We have previously reported on associations between some measures used in this paper (i.e., startle reflex, Flanker ERN, and parietal asymmetry), along with a behavioral measure of child defensive reactivity, in a pilot demonstration using a small subset of children included in this report (N ≤ 17; Moser et al., 2015).

In the weeks since the teens of Parkland have become known to the nation, it's become conventional to point to the paradox that they are "the adults in the room," just as it has become a popular trope to describe the President, who responded to the demonstrations with a defensive and uncharacteristic silence, as a big baby, or as a tyrannical toddler.

This was a victory for a rearguard tuned to near-perfection: a virtuoso demonstration of the Italian defensive arts, without a single Italian on the field.

He gave countless demonstrations of his plunging forward defensive, and went 49 balls - spread over an hour and a quarter - without scoring during one particularly stubborn period in the afternoon.

Still, Sunday's demonstrations put the Kremlin somewhat on the defensive, or at least in search of a new public-facing message of the kind that gives authoritarian governments such as Putin's a sense of legitimacy.

On 21 April, the Grand Fleet conducted a demonstration off Horns Reef to distract the Germans while the Russian Navy relaid its defensive minefields in the Baltic Sea.

Detailed ecological investigation of the three study species provided a clear demonstration of which factors are likely to have had the predominant influence in producing divergent defensive strategies through evolutionary optimisation of the aphids' life histories (Table 2).

Not defensive.

"Defensive back?