Sentence examples for hamper defence from inspiring English sources

However, when a university comes under attack over an alleged lack of integrity, confidentiality provisions can hamper defence.

Those gains help offset declining US military spending, which is hampering Boeing's defence businesses.

However, author Robert C. Owen argues that the HV would not have advanced as rapidly as it did had NATO not intervened and hampered the VRS defence by denying it long-range communications.

By his own admission, Watson's first Augusta defence was hampered by the debilitating attention generated through being the reigning champion.

Although the news had not reached Europe by February 1811 when the reinforcement squadron left Brest, Mauritius had been captured in December 1810 by a British invasion fleet, the French defences hampered by the lack of the supplies and troops carried aboard the frigate squadron under the command of Commodore François Roquebert in Renommée.

We hypothesised that if induced defences are built mainly upon current photoassimilates, then carbon starvation by light deprivation should strongly hamper the production of new defences.

In Iain Davis's case, the anonymity granted to witnesses hampered the conduct of the defence "in a manner and to an extent" that was unlawful and rendered the trial unfair, he said.Police and prosecutors have increasingly resorted to promises of anonymity in order to persuade frightened witnesses to testify in cases of gangland violence and gun crime.

Defence was further hampered by the fact that the terrain had not yet been cleared of vegetation, which offered good cover for the attackers.

Previous studies have shown that older hosts exhibit a defence mechanism that hampers the development of haustoria and thus mitigates parasite infection (Runyon et al. 2006; Meulebrouck et al. 2009; Lee and Jernstedt 2013).

But McVeigh's defence team - partly hampered, it was claimed, by rulings from Judge Richard Matsch - presented its case in only three and a half days, calling just 25 witnesses.

But he warned future flood defence works might be hampered by a tight funding settlement.