Sentence examples for defensive language from inspiring English sources
Given these realities at play, it is little wonder that China too has begun to cloak its ASAT testing in the defensive language of missile defense systems.
Questions about how platforms like Twitter and Reddit deal with disruptive users and offensive content tend to be met with defensive language invoking free speech.
Instead, we hear this defensive language: "Everybody got it wrong".
Instead of immediately replying "I didn't mean to" or using other defensive language, first acknowledge that s/he felt the way s/he says.
Therapists often tell you this is very defensive body language, but actually most of the time I think people are just cold.
The final definitions should (1) be the same, (2) retain the "defensive intent" language and (3) include the requirement that the target system be known or suspected of cybersecurity threat.
Whoever he manages to woo, Kelner needs a little "reputation management" counselling himself: which adviser failed to stop him posing in pics to promote the agency with his arms folded, when everyone else knows that's revealingly defensive body language?
This official said Democrats hoped to put Republicans on the defensive with language like "You handed us an economy that was shedding 700,000 jobs a month, and we managed an economy that finally started to produce jobs".
I registered my friend's defensive body language when another friend asked her about work - folding her arms and breaking eye contact - and I&apos m not sure I would have really seen that before.
And if you see your audience exhibiting defensive body language, change tactics, take a break, get them to move -- and don't try to persuade them until their bodies open up.
Stigma was also reflected in non-verbal cues during interviews, such as defensive body language (leaning back, crossing arms, and looking down), tone, and facial expressions, and in the use of words that devalued their emotional experience or distanced them from the diagnosis.
