Sentence examples for defensive step from inspiring English sources

The leader called last week's nuclear test "a self defensive step".

He is leading a team and himself toward redemption one defensive step, principle and practice at a time.

Its moratorium on further deals is a defensive step by an agency that should instead be opening its industry to foreign money, know-how and control.

Nervous about their own back-pedaling, Palestinian officials worked hard to cast their decision as forward-thinking rather than as a defensive step.

Later this month the United States and more than 25 other nations will hold the largest-ever minesweeping exercise in the Persian Gulf, in what military officials say is a demonstration of unity and a defensive step to prevent Iran from attempting to block oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz.

But even those defensive steps have not allayed fears about the bank.

The White House has never said whether Mr. Obama embraces the idea that the United States should use cyberweapons, and the public announcement on Friday is expected to focus solely on defensive steps and the government's acknowledgment that it needs to be better organized to face the threat from foes attacking military, government and commercial online systems.

Part of PPG's success can be explained by the defensive steps taken by its CEO, Raymond W. LeBoeuf, that softened the blow of recession.

If he believes it to be dangerous, he takes appropriate defensive steps.

Reports of these plans made their way to the commanders of the besieging forces, who decided that additional defensive steps were necessary.

It was "in retaliation against this," said the North Korean report, that the North's warships "were compelled to take a self-defensive step" in which there was "an exchange of fire between the two sides, causing losses".