Sentence examples for defensive shield from inspiring English sources

In the past several years, the military has conducted tests of the different components of the defensive shield, which is scheduled to include Patriot air defense batteries, antiballistic missiles launched from Navy ships and lasers mounted on planes.

Less widely understood, Mr. Sha said, is that an advanced missile defense in Asia would also serve as a forward line for the continental defensive shield.

On the campaign trail, he promised to build a national defensive shield against missiles.

Conte's nominated defensive shield is charged as much with intercepting and closing down as distributing.

SDI consisted of a number of projects aimed at producing a defensive shield against missile attack.

Wait, doesn't Zionism mean putting a kind of defensive shield, military and statist, around Jewish ritual observance?

"Without a doubt," said the deputy defense minister, Dalia RabinPelosoff, "Operation Defensive Shield hit the terrorist infrastructure hard.

Israel responded by launching Operation Defensive Shield, by far its biggest ground operation since the eruption of hostilities in September 2000.

From the Palsars' vantage point, Operation Defensive Shield so far has been a frustration.

"We're now bearing some of the fruit of our prolonged, sustained effort which began with Operation Defensive Shield in April 2002," said Capt.

Operation Defensive Shield, the Israeli antiterrorist strike last spring, generated plenty of controversy, but it also supplies a good model for military tactics.