Sentence examples for defensive preparation from inspiring English sources

Winfield's scorched-earth assessment prompted Tice to meet with the defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell and take a more active role in defensive preparation.

By operating as interspecies chemical signals, they could create selective pressure for the evolution of heterotrophic organisms that can sense these signals and then to respond by altering their metabolism in defensive preparation for the imminent adversity while conditions are still favorable.

The German defensive preparations and the lack of any defense in depth indicated that their plan was to stop the invasion at the beaches.

After the meeting, Georgia's defense minister, David Tevzadze, said the military was making necessary defensive preparations, but he did not elaborate.

They dug defensive preparations in a wooded grove near a water source.

That episode was another indication that Iraq was trying to make defensive preparations and that the American military was equally determined to thwart them.

The disadvantage is that on television you don't often get to see the patterns of play unfolding — the forming attacks and defensive preparations — which require a complete view of the ice.

Khrushchev criticized Stalin for having failed to make adequate defensive preparations before the German invasion of the Soviet Union (June 1941), for having weakened the Red Army by purging its leading officers, and for mismanaging the war after the invasion.

To oversee defensive preparations, Hitler appointed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, former commander of the Afrika Korps, as inspector of coastal defenses and then as commander of Army Group B, occupying the threatened Channel coast.

In addition to describing the landings with precision and drama, Wieviorka covers the planning and diplomatic background, Allied relationships, German defensive preparations, morale of the armies, economics and logistics, political and military leaders, and civilians' and soldiers' experience of the fighting.

But how real was the threat and what defensive preparations did the British make?