Sentence examples for performance of a defensive from inspiring English sources

It is hard to evaluate the performance of a defensive secondary using conventional statistics.

Thus, it was a bad team loss, one in which the Giants were so out of sync it might be hard to gauge the performance of a defensive unit looking desperately to make amends for last season's 31st ranking in the N.F.L.

It was not a classic, it was never going to leave the canvas swilling in blood and guts, but it was a pure performance of defensive boxing by Mayweather.

It was a virtuoso performance of defensive efficiency and ruthless counter-attacking football.

On Nowitzki's final drive, Bosh, who struggled with a 4-for-16 performance, guarded him instead of Udonis Haslem, who has more of a defensive reputation.

Like a drug addict, the market is starting to get stressed in the absence of a new stimulant.The chart shows the relative performance of defensive versus cyclical stocks in the US market.

"The performance of cyclicals and defensive stocks is almost the opposite of what you'd expect to see in a risk-off market," Mr. Paulsen said.

Hummer was more of a defensive player.

I'm more of a defensive person".

In fact, her performance of grief is an act of disremembering, a defensive strategy of radical innocence.

After failing to win their four previous matches – including a home loss to Caen last week – Marcelo Bielsa's players put on a performance of attacking verve and defensive solidity against a poor Toulouse side who were overrun from the start.