Sentence examples for passive defensive from inspiring English sources
The immune defense system of insects consists of behavioral barriers, passive defensive barriers (cuticles), and cascades of active responses that follow after cuticular injury and exposure of the hemocoel to pathogens [ 16, 17].
They refused to challenge this passive defensive formation and did not move the puck forward.
Our missile shield, more science fiction than science, has become a metaphor for our passive, defensive, retro crouch.
Most viewers do not realize that the slow loris pet trade is illegal or that the docile behavior of the animals in the videos is a passive defensive reaction for dealing with stress.
According to Nekaris, these videos are misunderstood by most people who watch them, since most do not realize that it is illegal in most countries to own them as pets and that the slow lorises in the videos are only docile because that is their passive defensive reaction to threatening situations.
We can only conclude from the present data that the typical duration of a rat's rearing episodes reflects a stable trait such that rats predisposed to longer rearing episodes are less likely to display passive defensive behavior in the form of freezing in response to a CS.
An innovative culture also discourages passive-defensive attitudes such as conformism, conventionalism and traditionalism.
James Bourie, a cybersecurity entrepreneur, told me, "Companies are tired of being passive and defensive.
Some players grow passive and defensive, keeping the ball in play and hoping for an unforced error.
Other measures can be passive or defensive; these might range from highway checkpoints and screening of airline passengers to legal measures against travel or even to the building of walls and fences in order to control movement.
