Sentence examples for necessary defence from inspiring English sources

I am beginning to wonder if his stoicism is the necessary defence against the more painful effects of self-scrutiny.

He has a well-honed sense of the absurd, both as a sensible reaction to his world, and a necessary defence against it.

It taught us that ideals are most often a seductive chimera, and that doubt is not a fatal weakness but a necessary defence against fatal beliefs".

Apart from anything else, that last sentence is a necessary defence against the accusation that Dawkins sees humans simply as the "survival machines" he described in The Selfish Gene, organisms whose only purpose is gene reproduction.

A Russian woman who visited East Germany in 1986 on a Soviet school trip described to me recently how their East German official hosts explained the Berlin wall as a necessary defence against the hordes of West Germans who wished to storm into East Germany to escape West German economic misery and join in East Germany's success.

I'm not sure if my generation could really fathom the thought that anti-tank barricades were once necessary defence expenditure.

"Deploying necessary national defence facilities on its own territory is China's exercise of self-preservation and defence, a right granted by international law to sovereign states," he said during his regular press conference on Tuesday.

He said Deso was necessary because "defence sales are political".

Do what is necessary in defence of your own cleanliness and leave him to fester in his own dirt.

First, he will never hesitate to use military power, unilaterally if necessary, in defence of the nation's core interests.

But everyone in peaceful societies – not in Imperial Germany or Hitler's – wants to spend as little as necessary on defence.