"defensive focus" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe someone's attention or efforts being directed toward protecting a person or interest. For example: "John kept a defensive focus on protecting his company from any potential risks."
Valverde will be criticised for his defensive focus.
Only the Knicks are, and apparently with a laser defensive focus.
When we went 2-0 up we lost a bit of our defensive focus.
It is also worth wondering why the Heat have only sporadically applied this level of defensive focus and energy during the series.
"Melo is the best offensive player I've ever coached, but his defensive focus, his demand of himself is what frustrated us more than anything," Karl said Thursday.
They have U.S.C. pushed back inside their own twenty yard line and it'll be interesting to see if they can keep up their defensive focus.
Because he's got just the right pitch — not angry, not defensive, focused on security and secondarily on costs….But all the indicators in every direction are it's too late.
Where is the protection there?" Comgest Europe might not be very sexy, but if Europe's highfliers continue to tumble, von Gaudecker's defensive, focused approach will look increasingly attractive.Comgest, at www.comgest.com, also runs two Asian offshore funds, Panda and Comgest Asia, using the same approach.
"Exercise Forward Defensive will focus on the extreme end of what may happen, it is not being carried out in response to any specific intelligence and the scenario has been planned for many months," she said.
Since early March, the N.F.L.'s dominant story line has been the New Orleans Saints' bounty program, where the league said it found evidence of a three-year, pay-for-pain system in which Saints defensive players focused on specific opponents.
The party openly admitted it was running a largely defensive campaign, focusing its attentions on about 30 of its seats that private polling suggested it could hold, and a handful of seats (including Oxford West and Abingdon, Maidstone, Montgomeryshire and Watford) it thought it could "pinch back".
