Sentence examples for mount defensive from inspiring English sources

Today's secularists must do more than mount defensive campaigns proclaiming that we can be "good without God".

While the naval and air forces available for the protection of shipping in Australian waters were never adequate to defeat a heavy or coordinated attack, they proved sufficient to mount defensive patrols against the sporadic and generally cautious attacks mounted by the Axis navies during the war.

A subset of people with diabetes fail to mount defensive counterregulatory responses (CRR) to hypoglycemia.

Plants wield typical basal and resistance (R) gene-mediated defense mechanisms and mount a defensive response to pathogen attack to delay or arrest potential pathogenic microorganism growth [ 3] through pathogen-associated molecular pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered immunity (ETI) systems.

By conveying this information to the lymphoid system, the body is able to mount a defensive immunologic response to the foreign material.

Such is the reach of the latter's reputation that the Australian outfit has had to mount a defensive public relations exercise to head off contamination of its brand.

At the time, Dr. Janeway explained that T cells, which protect against pathogens, forming the body's adaptive immune response, must first be instructed to mount their defensive attack by the activation of specific receptors on immune cells that line the body's surface and recognize foreign microorganisms.

When an herbivore eats a plant it selects for plants that can mount a defensive response.

Thus, our demonstration of METH-induced expression of the chaperones, Hsp27/Hspb1 [79] and BiP/Grp78 [80], suggests that striatal cells are able to mount adaptive defensive HSP-modulated networks against the toxic effects of the drug.

This immunopathology is a major difference between murine and insect models, since insect hosts mount a defensive immune response to C. albicans infections based on phagocytic cells and the upregulation of antimicrobial peptides but do not develop septic shock [12], [13].

This polymorphism is driven by the need to interact with a plethora of pathogenic organisms and mount appropriate defensive responses.