Politicians Iranian and Iraqi talk of Baghdad being intact, and the government in place, thanks only to a ring of defences set up around the city by Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Quds Force; some call him "Supermani".Similarly Syria has fallen ever more under Iran's spell.
The town walls of Ludlow also began to be constructed in the 13th century, probably from 1260 onwards, and these were linked to the castle to form a continuous ring of defences around the town.
Paskevich probably did not want to enter Warsaw, and counted on the Polish defenders to abandon the city or surrender once the outer ring of defences was pierced and the city centre was threatened with fire.
"They keep saying they are not militarising, but they could deploy fighter jets and surface-to-air missiles tomorrow if they wanted to … Now they have all the infrastructure in place for these interlocking rings of defence and power projection," Poling added.
For the Frankish weapon of defence is this coat of mail, ring plaited into ring, and the iron fabric is such excellent iron that it repels arrows and keeps the wearer's skin unhurt.
Thirty seconds later the boos rang out as Bridge played the ball out of defence, and for the rest of the match there were catcalls and whistles.
Verhofstadt, a former prime minister of Belgium and lifelong federalist, urged the EU to "fight back" against "the ring of autocrats" by working together on defence and reforming the eurozone.
Gaitan and Aimar were joining the Benfica midfield to run rings around Michael Carrick and Fletcher, but once United improved their passing out of defence, they started to create problems for the visitors.
At large deformations, the membrane behaviour of the affected slabs, consisting of a peripheral compressive ring of concrete supporting tensile membrane action in the central region, represents an important line of defence against progressive collapse.
The defenders of defence have strong arguments.
