Sentence examples for state of defensive from inspiring English sources

Considering the circumstances, the Knicks' best option is to try to catch the Heat in a state of defensive transition, and apply pressure with quick — but careful — passing.

I suspect the situation was more like a group of homeopaths – a community of believers building their own insular bubble, convinced that a "treatment" works, and living in a state of defensive denial.

Priming is a physiological state of enhanced defensive capacity elicited by special stimuli, in which the innate defenses of the plants are potentiated for rapid activation upon subsequent challenge from fungi, bacteria, viruses, or nematodes [ 6].

Induced resistance is a state of enhanced defensive capacity developed by a plant reacting to specific biotic or chemical stimuli.

On the other hand, Merkel has to deal with the growing, slightly simplistic conviction in Washington that the only way to get Putin to back off is to supply state-of-the-art defensive weapons to the Ukrainian government, an option Merkel - like most EU leaders - firmly believes would make matters worse.

This week Mr Bush gave a somewhat defensive state-of-the-union address, referring often to the Democrats' attacks on his record, and advising America to keep the same leadership to see through the war on terrorism (see article).

This state leads to a number of defensive maneuvers--including outward displays of emotion, argumentation, silence, and withdrawal--in order to restore racial equilibrium.

In this study 55% of the sampled doctors stated that they practice this form of defensive behaviour.

This state of apparent threat arousal or defensive motivation may share properties in common with the emotions that humans subjectively experience as 'fear' or 'anxiety' (Phelps and LeDoux, 2005; LeDoux, 2012; Adolphs, 2013; Anderson and Adolphs, 2014).

The GDR saw it as the international frontier of a sovereign state – a defensive rampart against Western aggression.

"That was probably the play of the game, Kansas State's defensive coordinator, Phil Bennett, said.