Sentence examples for defensive functions from inspiring English sources

In 2008-09, for instance, after Manchester United had struggled to contain the attacking left-back Aly Cissokho against Porto, Sir Alex Ferguson used Wayne Rooney as a wide‑forward and Cristiano Ronaldo centrally because Rooney was more diligent in performing his defensive functions.

It also laid the basis for plant genetic engineering on its defensive functions to pests and diseases.

Björkman et al. (2011) and Edreva (2005) reported that flavonoids in plants may carry defensive functions against environmental stresses, especially higher light radiation, which is evidenced by data obtained in full light treatments of our study.

Ultimately, pushing the disease deeper into the person is the result of using pharmacological agents that are explicitly prescribed for their ability to control or inhibit symptoms that are the natural defensive functions of the body.

In our study, we confirm previous studies of closely related species reporting that virulence factors are commonly found in GIs, and we find that these virulence factors are disproportionately involved in more offensive versus defensive functions.

Using the VFDB classification scheme, we note that pathogen-associated virulence factors have more offensive functional roles compared to "common" virulence factors, which are likely to be so-called "host interaction factors" with nonspecific or defensive functions.

An analysis of the sequence variation revealed that the active domains of PI genes carry the signatures of an evolutionary arms race between plants and their enemies [9], [62]; hence the ability to produce a wide spectrum of structurally and functionally divergent PIs is likely important for PIs' defensive function.

Because these transformed lines did not differ in any other measured defense traits [ 42], they allowed us to examine the defensive function of TPIs by constraining plant responses to herbivore attack and observe unconstrained herbivore behavior in response to these constrained plant responses.

Their findings have been remarkably consistent in supporting the hierarchy of defenses, suggesting that instruments which could readily yield an accurate assessment of defensive functioning would prove clinically useful in identifying characteristic personality traits.

Their defensive function is somewhat self-evident: they're stabby.

Preferably, the defensive function could operate transparently, with the ability and trust to share information about vulnerabilities.