Sentence examples for defensive states from inspiring English sources

It is therefore reasonable to assume that the motility changes seen in intestinal allergy will resemble those seen in other defensive states.

In addition to simple avoidance, defensive states often actively inhibit positively valenced appetitive behaviors such as feeding or mating, which otherwise increase the animal's vulnerability to predation (Petrovich et al., 2009; Sukikara et al., 2010).

Those complex changes in genome expression lead plant metabolites toward defensive state.

From the late 1810s, the Sotho peoples amalgamated into a defensive state under the leadership of Moshoeshoe, particularly after the Boer invasions (the Great Trek) of the mid-1830s.

Other researchers have found something like pessimism in bees, something like anxiety in crayfish, and a defensive state that bears some relation to fear in fruit flies.

It appeared that the brains of these subjects were wired to equate loneliness with danger, and to switch the body into a defensive state.

According to the police report, "LaDue immediately became defensive, stating that it is his storage unit and asked what I was doing and pulling away".

The humans in The War of the Worlds initially treat the invasion with complacency but soon are provoked into a defensive state of war.

This week Mr Bush gave a somewhat defensive state-of-the-union address, referring often to the Democrats' attacks on his record, and advising America to keep the same leadership to see through the war on terrorism (see article).

Kellie Payne, research and policy manager at the Campaign to End Loneliness, says that loneliness is fatal precisely because it puts people "into a kind of defensive state where the levels of cortisol are raised.

In the reign of Abū Ghufayl (885 913) the confederation became firmly established in Barghawāṭah territory and aided in the creation of a highly defensive state that also proved to be commercially prosperous.