Sentence examples for to be defense from inspiring English sources

The Crew are leaking goals, spelling doom for a team supposed to be defense first.

To the casual observer, Wilson's strong suit appears to be defense.

After his defeat, he flirted with the idea of accepting an offer from Mr. Sharon to be defense minister.

Mr. Hagel would be the first enlisted combat veteran to be defense secretary, a grunt who has seen war from the trenches.

We have to continue to do what it takes, get in our minds that our identity has to be defense and hard work.

Like Mr. Habibie, he is a protege of Mr. Suharto, having been appointed by him to be defense minister after serving for years as his personal adjutant.

The BLS would probably not consider lobbyist jobs to be defense-related, but maybe they should because the Center for Responsive Politics, a research group that tracks money in politics, reports that the industry spent $149 million on lobbying firms to get its points across to Congress and the administration last year.

Previously, SCAmpPs gene products have been proposed to be defense-related based on transcriptional profiles [ 7].

That is, some appear to function in plant growth and developmental processes such as morphogenesis, organogenesis and hormone signaling, while others appear to be primarily involved in mediating responses to biotic or abiotic stresses and therefore can be said to be defense-related.

So that, to me, is defense not offense.

So the only place left to look is defense.