In this situation, central European countries must co-operate to defend their own interests, as well as their dream of a common Europe.
Four key signalling cascades triggered early-on in the innate immune response are the toll-like receptor, interferon, NF-κB and apoptotic pathways, which co-operate to defend cells against a given pathogen.
The way to get full value for that individual brilliance, and to ensure it has more space in which to operate, is to defend well.
While in earlier times many argued that energy homeostasis operates primarily to defend against weight loss, the discovery of the leptin negative feedback loop speaks for homeostatic mechanisms that inhibit uncontrolled weight gain.
And the context within which citizens must operate who want to defend a free and open Internet is one of relentless corporate lobbying and political power.
Unknown to most people, an army of epidemiologists operates around the clock to defend against microbial threats.
But until then, the U.S. will operate the Canal and Panama will help to defend it.
PARIS — NATO must be willing to fight and operate far from its borders to defend its members in a new world of terrorism, piracy and cyberattacks, according to a proposed strategy for the alliance released Monday.
Moshe Ya'alon, the Israeli defence minister, warned: "The IDF holds the Syrian government accountable for all attacks emanating from its land and will operate by any means necessary to defend Israeli civilians.
As the boundaries between philanthropy and business continue to blur with the rise of venture philanthropy, social enterprise and other "hybrid" philanthropic models, the assumption that nonprofits and for-profit businesses are essentially different and should be operated differently becomes more difficult to defend.
Outsourcing more manufacturing to emerging economies will help Airbus, which already operates engineering facilities in Russia, to defend its profitability against the weakening U.S. dollar, the currency in which its planes are priced.
