Sentence examples for defensive umbrella from inspiring English sources
The easy answers were expensive placebos, like President Reagan's fantasy of an impermeable defensive umbrella, or before that the brief national obsession with civil defense.
The Kremlin vehemently opposes any extension of NATO's defensive umbrella over former Soviet republics, in particular Georgia and Ukraine.
The shield would leave Europe outside the defensive umbrella and would perhaps incite China to build up its nuclear arsenal further, thus triggering further escalation in the arms race between India and Pakistan.
The anti-missile defence programme assumes an American president rejecting nuclear blackmail from a newly armed opponent secure in the knowledge that US cities are under a defensive umbrella.
For, while President Bush's envoys have been assiduously selling the 'son of Star Wars' as a primarily defensive umbrella that would protect America and its allies from surprise missile strikes by pariah states such as North Korea or Iraq, the reality is very different.
Therefore Benjamin Netanyahu, during his first term of office as Prime Minister of Israel, reportedly offered Jordan "a defensive umbrella of Arrow 2".
Iran, as the regional rival to Saudi Arabia, would be the prime beneficiary if the Saudis were to lose their defensive US umbrella.
By the 1700's, she writes, Britain was probably mining five times more coal than the rest of the world combined, and Londoners "took to carrying defensive black umbrellas" to protect themselves against the soot that soiled their clothes whenever it rained.
The Giants' alignment, known as the umbrella defense for its shape, had the two defensive ends drop back from the line of scrimmage and the four defensive backs spread out.
The "umbrella" obviously is defensive, that is, to protect American allies against the first use of nukes.
Weinmeister and his fellow tackle Al DeRogatis were anchors of the line while the defensive backs -- most notably Landry and Emlen Tunnell -- spread out like an umbrella.
