Sentence examples for defensive initiative from inspiring English sources

But it is not how we envisioned it coming about and we must hope that the government recognises the value of the BBC's generous, if defensive, initiative.

The 1986 Challenger disaster rocked the space program and the collapse of the Soviet Union ended the cold war, rendering less urgent Mr. Reagan's plan, officially called the Strategic Defensive Initiative.

As if that were not enough, Vodafone and Vivendi also appeared poised to unravel Mr. Esser's other major defensive initiative: a major alliance with the European business of America Online.

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), byname Star Wars, proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks—as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union.

While Twitter is super for defensive branding initiatives, Facebook is a great forum in which to engage consumers in a more significant way, to share more and to get them to share more of themselves in the process.

British war correspondent Philip Gibbs noted Amiens' effect on the war's tempo, saying on 27 August that, "the enemy...is on the defensive" and, "the initiative of attack is so completely in our hands that we are able to strike him at many different places".

Capello had just been forced to replace Ashley Cole, injured in an early tackle on Valon Behrami, with Leighton Baines and the Everton defender could only watch as his defensive colleagues handed the initiative to the Swiss.

[Memo to Roy: shots that hit the post are off target.] There were age-old failings in the predictability of the football while defensive sloppiness handed Germany the initiative.

Although several German states initially sided with Austria, they stayed on the defensive and failed to take effective initiatives against Prussian troops.

In the face of this constant rationalist innovation, conservatives often found themselves forced to adopt a merely defensive role, so that the political initiative lay always in the other camp.

Dauman sounded defensive on the call, outlining several initiatives that he has launched during his nearly 10-year tenure in the top job.