Sentence examples for purpose of defence from inspiring English sources

Not all the elements of castle architecture were military in nature, and devices such as moats evolved from their original purpose of defence into symbols of power.

It is evident that the division of Iberia by Pharnavaz into saeristavos served first and foremost a military aim, namely the organization of people for the purpose of defence.

"Not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the guy who was asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder," he wrote.The purpose of the defence tactics is not entirely clear.

But the general added: "I think that we live in a world now where it is not the purpose of the defence budget to underwrite elements of industry.

Treatments with higher doses (50 and 100 ng/mL) exerted prooxidative effects in the fungus, leading to an increased formation of TBARS (Fig. 3a), and the GSH/GSSG ratio (Fig. 3b) which indicated an immense upregulation of GSH synthesis with the purpose of antioxidative defence.

Saudi media claim the kingdom has mobilised as many as 150,000 troops to its southern border primarily for the purpose of homeland defence, but also clearly to afford the kingdom the option to stage a ground war should it so choose.

Common law also allows a pre-emptive attack for the purpose of self-defence if an attack is "imminent".

Victorian historians such as George Clark and John Parker concluded that British castles had been built for the purposes of military defence, but believed that their history was pre-Conquest – concluding that the mottes across the countryside had been built by either the Romans or Celts.

What would be the purpose of a European defence force?

"The primary purpose of a national defence force is to defend the nation against enemy combatants," the Oz said.

The purpose of the digital defence day was to expand the students' perspective on the complexity of the threat to the public from this new breed of digital attack, inspire new ways of looking at the problems and inspire research ideas to tackle the cybersecurity challenge.