Sentence examples for defensive elements from inspiring English sources

This kind of test also implicates missile defense, calling into question the supposedly defensive elements of some BMD-related technologies and their potential for doubling as offensive ASAT weapons.

The rookie Chris Kreider is said to have a great deal of promise but not yet to have sufficiently apprehended the defensive elements of the game.

People are going to notice that the defensive elements, in this particular scrimmage of sensibilities, are members of the putatively vanguard aristocracy of wealth and social clout.

Bastions were used as the main defensive elements.

One of the castle's most important defensive elements is the confusing maze of paths leading to the castle keep.

The castle was built using the trace italienne style popular during the seventeenth century; its floor has a geometric design, and bastions are the main defensive elements.

Disguise is a crucial defensive element.

The defensive element came to prominence, symbolized by armour.

Market practices are already converging, mainly to the Anglo-American model of accountability and shareholder rights—a tribute to America's recent success.There is also a defensive element to the new-found zeal for shareholder value and for improving legal and other systems.

It has a defensive element to it that should hold up well if the market is very weak.

As Nature's gift, some aminoglycosides possess natural defensive structural elements that can circumvent drug resistance mechanisms.