Sentence examples for is too defensive from inspiring English sources

Even then, as Mr Issing makes clear, the Bundesbank believed the single currency needed greater political union.Mr Issing's book is good on the technicalities of setting up the ECB and designing its (mostly successful) monetary policy, even if he is too defensive over its early communication failures.

They believe the strategy is too defensive.

Everyone thought that Aquaria can come off as snide and that The Vixen is too defensive.

But she also has many detractors who believe she is following the wrong path and that her leadership is too defensive and top-down, rarely marked by efforts to consult colleagues and constituents.

I was too defensive".

"People said in the first game we were too defensive.

He thinks the messages from No 10 are too defensive.

Part of the problem is that students are too defensive of their institutions.

I don't see any point in being too defensive on this.

People say there weren't enough goals and teams were too defensive.

We're too defensive in the first half away from home.