Sentence examples for practical defences from inspiring English sources

Great keeps such as Castle Rising's were also important ceremonially and symbolically in the 12th century, however, and historian Thomas Heslop has described Castle Rising as "a fortress palace", with the keep forming the palace, and the surrounding earthworks the more practical defences.

But that view is contested by others who continue to believe the jihadis are a more practical defence against Indian hegemony than even nuclear weapons.

"The one thing that politicians don't address when they talk about Britain's nuclear weapons is how they do or don't actually figure in practical defence policy for the next 10 or 20 years.

The Pentagon even removes the platters from their hard drives and minces them in a mechanical shredder.If physical destruction isn't practical, defence officials recommend that you use "multiple block overwrites".

The South West Coast Path is no longer used by the Coastguard but it has been transformed from a practical defence system into a resource for recreational walkers.

His call for debate about "practical self-defence" packs a lot of his personal commitments into a very small space.

Milton Keynes this year opened its Floodplain Forest reserve: as the name suggests, such rewilded spaces also provide practical flood defence for urban areas.

Michael Clarke, director general of the RUSI thinktank, argued that the practical implications for defence are being ignored.

We also told him that it would cause huge practical problems if defence lawyers sought blanket orders to taken down material which could be seen by jurors.

Guns are the only technology that makes individual self-defence practical and we take this right so seriously that we are willing to suffer the few crimes that might otherwise have been prevented by gun prohibition.I wonder what a civilised Englishman is expected to do if he encounters a gang of thugs who are intent on beating him to a pulp.

Not a conspiracy theory, rather a practical acknowledgment that "oil, defence and politics... are not mutually exclusive interests".