Sentence examples for initial defence from inspiring English sources

Policymakers might find incentives the best initial defence against unsustainable abstraction, says Bird.

A | Russia appears to have come out all guns blazing in its initial defence.

In her initial defence of the story, Phillips said the investigation "was carried out following information from a reliable source".

So much for no one being able to see the right clips, which was the club's initial defence.

Spurr's initial defence, that the emails were part of a "whimsical linguistic game" is the most offensive excuse commonly trumpeted after racist abuse.

Paulson's initial defence of letting Lehman fail, that he believed the market had had time to prepare, gave way to the one he uses today, echoed by Bernanke.

Variation in presentation of the disease between pathogens may be the result of differences in the capability of the innate immune system to mount initial defences.

This implies that the immune system of D. magna is rather ineffective against P. ramosa once the parasite could overcome the initial defences.

Karzai's initial (ridiculous) defence was that he had not read the law before signing it the first time.

In the initial release, defence officials blanked out the final sentence, referring to the warheads, because "the notes were incomplete information and therefore potentially misleading".

Les Bleus won a scrum against the head and the influential Picamoles broke the initial line of defence before feeding 6ft 5in winger Malzieu, who beat four men on a spectacular solo run to the line.