Sentence examples for defensive on from inspiring English sources

Once again the Democratic Party finds itself on the defensive on defense.

Nevertheless, Mr. Feingold is on the defensive on the issue.

Fund officials were also defensive on that unusual rebuke.

Pfizer looked suspiciously defensive on the tax point.

I don't see any point in being too defensive on this.

Even generally complacent capitalists such as Greenspan find themselves on the defensive on this issue".

Mr. Levy's move put the Lazio campaign on the defensive on Thursday.

It was a good political pitch, putting the Republicans on the defensive on the fairness issue.

But advocates of abortion rights have repeatedly found themselves on the defensive on this issue.

Company executives were forced on the defensive on Wednesday morning, insisting they put customers before shareholders.

"Just as the death tax sort of put Democrats on the defensive on the estate tax," Mr. Schumer said in a telephone interview, "the millionaires' tax is putting the Republicans on the defensive on tax policy".