Sentence examples for protective reaction from inspiring English sources

Official spokesmen here openly acknowledged that there had been a raid in that region, but described it as a reinforced mission of "protective reaction" against antiaircraft guns to protect unarmed reconnaissance aircraft.

[In Washington, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said in a statement at 2 55 A.M. Saturday: "As part of our publicly announced poli cy and determined effort to protect American lives we are conducting limited dura tion protective reaction air strikes against missiles and antiaircraft gun sites and re lated facilities in North Viet nam south of the 19th parallel.

"As part of our publicly an nounced policy and determined effort to protect American lives we are conducting limited dur ation protective reaction air strikes against missiles and an tiaircraft gun sites and related facilities in North Vietnam south of the 19th parallel.

This appears to be the primary protective reaction in living brachiopods, the closure of the shell protecting the soft-tissue from potentially harmful agents in the external environment [ 32].

Nixon: He [General Creighton Abrams, the American commander in Vietnam] is to call all of these things 'protective reaction.' Just call it protective reaction.

Just call it ordinary protective reaction….Who knows or would say they didn't fire?" "Just call it protective reaction"—this was exactly what got Lavelle in trouble.

Obese subjects tend to fall backward or sideways rather than forward, and this, together with impaired protective reactions to falling, may protect the wrist from the impact.

These data clearly indicate the direct participation of lectins in the formation of protective reactions of plants against pathogens.

When potato tubers were treated with low concentrations of AA preparation (from 10−7 to 10−8 M), no necrosis or PA were formed, but tissues acquired the capability for rapid mobilization of the whole complex of protective reactions in response to the subsequent contact with the late blight pathogen, P. infestans.

It arises when conditions of normative threat trigger protective reactions by those with the disposition.

When we appreciate the degree to which all of our relationships are enhanced by breaking the habit of responding to differences with defensive and offensive patterns, we've already taken the most important step in the process of becoming liberated from our automatic protective reactions.