Sentence examples for degree defensive from inspiring English sources

There is a whole shelf of older movies about Baader-Meinhof, most of them elegiac and to some degree defensive.

The citation language is the point where the Pulitzer committee may have been just a degree too defensive.

The Heineken move appears motivated to a significant degree by defensive thinking – not necessarily at the top of its shareholders' agenda.

If escalation, or predator-driven evolution, is a valid hypothesis, there should be a correlation between the diversity and/or abundance of shell-breaking and drilling predators and the degree of defensive ornamentation and armoring of prey species.

The Cottagers are a point off the relegation zone and, after a 4-1 home loss against Sunderland last week, can take some encouragement from a performance which contained a greater degree of defensive resilience.

Another pivotal factor influencing the degree of defensive specialisation is whether loss of host alternation or other factors have influenced each species' innate predisposition for producing dimorphic offspring.

The data essentially broke down the floor into many discrete zones and calculated the odds of Bryant making shots from different places on the court, under different degrees of defensive pressure, in different relationships to other players — how well he scored off screens, off pick-and-rolls, off catch-and-shoots and so on.

You don't want them swinging while they're thinking". The data essentially broke down the floor into many discrete zones and calculated the odds of Bryant making shots from different places on the court, under different degrees of defensive pressure, in different relationships to other players — how well he scored off screens, off pick-and-rolls, off catch-and-shoots and so on.

The degree of insect defensive behaviour is a reliable measure because it is directly related to the number of insects attacking the host [ 8, 26, 27].

"We've to some degree taken on a defensive posture.

An adult is confident and emotionally mature to such a degree that knee-jerk defensive reactions become unnecessary.