Sentence examples for to deflect attack from inspiring English sources

Part 3, disguise, covers methods of mimicry that provide camouflage, as when animals resemble leaves or twigs, and markings and displays that help to deflect attack or to deceive predators with deimatic displays.

Cott describes markings that help to deflect attack, such as the eyespots of butterfly wings and the twitching cast-off tails of lizards, both acknowledged to Poulton, as well as the distraction displays of birds such as the partridge mentioned by Gilbert White in his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.

Another strategy used to deflect attacks is to rate software based on its reputation.

And the campaign has hired Stephanie Cutter, a veteran strategist, as her chief of staff, who will seek to deflect attacks.

"Woe betide its growth, the flowering of its culture, the drive behind its science and technology, its image and its influence in the world" Yesterday's thinly veiled criticism of big EU governments was intended to deflect attacks from members of the 105-strong convention, who today begin their first debate on the draft constitution's full text.

As some earlier biographers have noted, many of the most enduring ideas about the Brontës were rooted in Charlotte's own conflicted feelings about herself and her projection of a demure, ladylike persona to deflect attacks from people who found her novel "Jane Eyre" immoral, subversive or morbid.

Whyte responded in predictable style , trying to deflect attacks on him by suggesting they were assaults on the name of Rangers.

Ann Romney's speech at the Republican Convention attempted to deflect attacks from Democrats about the success Mitt has built.

Charlton attempted to deflect attacks made on Hughes to a party conference, but Hughes left the party before a decision could be made.

The skills and reputations that they lease to predatory for-profit colleges help to deflect attacks and allow abuses to go on, year after year.

They see a political benefit in supporting a plan, which they can use to deflect attacks on their more orthodox gun votes.