In each case - India, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam -- China justified its sneak attack as "self-defensive counter-intervention".
Defensive or even pre-emptive intervention to avoid negligence claims is a reality.
It looked like Wolves would be left to rue their defensive mistakes until Edwards's late intervention.
The white militia assumed defensive positions out of concern over possible intervention from federal troops.
Mechanisms of cellular defensive response to ischaemic stress and pharmacological interventions were investigated using animal, tissue, and subcellular models, particularly in mice, rats, and rabbits, and, to the lesser extent, large animals.
Immediately after t0, participants were presented with an intervention consisting of information about the actual defensive reactions to threatening health messages in the Brown et al. study and an explanation of the dynamics of processing threatening information (see Intervention section).
But the visitors' defensive solidity came to an end with Ryan Taylor's disastrous intervention as half-time neared.
US officials said Saudi Arabia was moving heavy military equipment including artillery to areas near its border with Yemen, raising the prospect of military intervention, though Saudi sources said the move was purely defensive.
When comparing antibiotic prescribing rates between the intervention groups we will take into account the physicians defensive attitude and general antibiotic prescribing behaviour as possible confounders, besides other personal characteristics (e.g. sex, age, practice type,…).
Aleksander Golts, an independent military analyst in Moscow, said the Russians' discussion of defensive weapons shipments "undoubtedly" serves as a warning to Western countries contemplating an intervention.
