Sentence examples for may defence from inspiring English sources

In May, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel suggested he would be open to lifting the ban – or, at the very least, that it "should be reviewed" continually.

This week's decision may make defence bosses more scrupulous about providing it or more timid about sending out their troops under-equipped.Inquests could also be improved.

The direct effects of these microbial inoculants on the plants are in line with earlier work showing that Pro and RhVi may elicit defence responses in plants [41, 56], thus directly affecting the plant's metabolism.

However, many crop cultivars have been genetically altered in comparison to their ancestral stocks and may have defence systems that differ from those in naturally co-evolved plants.

Conversely, cell wall-degrading enzymes may activate defence responses by releasing oligosaccharides as elicitors.

Thus TAG5 may modulate defence responses at various levels that collectively contribute to a degree of resistance.

In response to parasitic infection, hosts may evolve defences that reduce the deleterious effects on survivorship.

Thus, inadequate protein and carbohydrate supplies during pregnancy can induce short-term as well as long-lasting effects on immune responses in piglets, and thereby may impair defences against potential pathogens in the offspring.

In addition, you may have defences to claims that something is defamatory, so don't jump over the hot coals straight off.

While immune defence may bring increased survival, this may come at a resource cost to other physiological traits, including reproduction.

Thus, fish-induced defences may be less costly than inducible defences against small invertebrate predators like Triops; the latter defences could no longer be expressed when the host had already invested in fighting off the parasite.