Initially, Clinton was highly defensive of her decision to use private email.
What I was interested in, as someone who was brought up to own up to something you did wrong, was that there was something about those men that was highly defensive.
According to this classification scheme, individuals have a repressive coping style when they are highly defensive (e.g., high score on the social desirability) scale, but also low in trait anxiety (e.g., low score on the manifest anxiety scale).
If you are trying to see how the other person intends on wounding you throughout the argument, you will be highly defensive and you can easily read into the situation that which isn't there.
Although the company's strong cash flow is attractive for Google, the bid is highly strategic, and in part, a defensive move, said Danny Sullivan, the editor of Search Engine Land, an industry blog.
Recently, a project exploring the defensive earthworks has shown that the scale of the earthworks is highly variable and that in many places it is inconsequential as a defensive feature.
His defensive schemes are constantly smart and he is highly respected by players.
Owing to increasing global terrorist activities, it is highly important to optimize the allocation of a city's limited defensive resources to protect multiple chemical facilities against terrorist attacks.
The 'low-road' affective process is highly evolutionary and is designed to protect individuals from life-threatening danger, and to elicit defensive responses without conscious thought.
Max is initially highly defensive of her, but after a stern talking to by Abra, and being implored to do the right thing by Kyla, Max admits to his social worker that his foster mother is frequently neglectful.
