Sentence examples for that defences from inspiring English sources
But the average yards per play using the strategy have fallen from 6.2 to 4.7, suggesting that defences are getting better at neutralising it.
They argue that defences will only provoke further proliferation and, depending on how America goes about things, they could indeed be right.
Some Czech towns are already under water and there are warnings that defences could be breached within hours.
The biggest factor must be that defences are getting better, not just first-up defence but the scramble defence (once the first line of defence has been breached) as well.
The extra £30m - on top of the £100m announced by Mr Cameron on Wednesday - would "cover costs incurred during the current emergency response and recovery, as well as essential repairs to ensure that defences are maintained", said Mr Pickles, who was standing in for Environment Secretary Owen Paterson, who is to have emergency eye surgery.
However, just weeks before the floods in December, the Yorkshire regional flood committee warned the government that defences were not being maintained well enough.
CONVENTION has always had it that defence is different.
(Although now she's here, that defence gets thinner).
From another perspective, that defence smacks of western privilege.
Carlo Scognamiglio, the defence minister, reckons that defence spending will have to rise by half a percentage point.
Mr Kudrin told the newspaper Vedomosti this week that defence spending affected the entire political system.
