Geography rich soil, a safe harbour or navigable river, ample fresh water, easy defence, later minerals like coal was the start of many a town.
There's an easy defence here, of course, if you care to seat No Balls (I'll use the abbreviated version, if I may) in the time-honoured tradition of ghastly political satire.
Deila admits that the title race could go all the way to May despite pre-season predictions of another easy defence by Celtic.
"I suppose they thought matchmaking Proksa and myself would be an easy match up for him, an easy defence," said Hope. "But I had other intentions and I trained hard.
"I thought somewhere along the line someone like Sturm would take a gamble on me, thinking that I can't punch and I'll make for an easy defence".
Incident response matters We're living in a world where attack is easier than defence and where a sufficiently skilled, motivated and funded party will always succeed.
Industry sources suggest that other, smaller parts of the European industry, such as Alenia, an Italian aerospace concern, will join in.Working together may not prove easy, as defence mergers in America show (see article).
"So when people say what an easy job defence is having at the present time, they might want to come and look at the books at the MoD and see if they feel the same," he said.
This would've made it pretty easy for defence lawyers to argue a woman is a liar--and they don't need to prove she lied about sexual assault before, mixing up some dates, or lying about when she last used Match.com have been good enough to discredit victims in Canadian courts this year.
