"set up defenses" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the act of building or establishing defenses, such as barriers or fortifications, to protect against potential threats. Example: The army was called in to help set up defenses around the city to prepare for the approaching hurricane.
They set up defences against the aggressor.
When a player is near a portal, they can take it over, set up defences and then link it together with the rest of their side's territory.
He sank a crossing barge at the western end of the gorge once all his men were across and set up defences.
Its plot was derived from village scenes in the film, where players can choose their squad from the cast, set up defences and battle the enemy.
The Poles set up defences in front of the town, utilising some earlier German and Russian First World War trenches and digging new positions.
Labrador's strategic value was recognised by the British as early as 1843 when plans were made to set up defences to protect Singapore, an important trading post founded by Sir Stamford Raffles of the British East India Company in 1819.
The two sides play quite differently: Corporations play a bluffing game, setting up defences and punishing the runner for diving too deep while trying to protect their Agendas long enough to score them for points.
"You have the criminal interrogators for the military, and this new unit that the Pentagon sets up; defence intelligence agents, special project teams importing these enhanced interrogation methods.
Cameron became "distracted by a range of other things" and the then French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, "wanted to trumpet the flights he was taking in the air campaign, despite the fact that we had wiped out all the air defences and essentially set up the entire infrastructure".
The members of Unasur, a fledgling South American political union, set up a defence council intended to defuse conflicts.
However, what followed at the Philips Stadion did not bode well for the next few months if this is how Louis van Gaal intends to set up his defence.
