Word Finder - defenses

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The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.

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Anything employed to oppose attack(s).

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An argument in support or justification of something.

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Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.

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Department of Defense

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A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

The defenses the Exemplars gave us must work for anyone trying to kill us.

Darian pierced her defenses twice.

You've had time to assess our defenses and capabilities and now, learn the placement of our strongholds.

We might wipe out the threat to the north and maintain that route, but it would take away from defenses elsewhere.

Her defenses crumbled, and she began to cry.

Xander was silent, recalling how Eden always found a way to push past his defenses enough to manipulate him.

Deidre fled to it, needing something to bolster the defenses that were dropping too fast.

Without her magic, her defenses were too limited to stop him.

Taran needs tonight to repair our defenses.

The Western Cliffs - -which formed one of Tiyan's natural defenses - -were marked in yellow, and the violent ocean edging the cliffs in blue.

He squinted to survey Tiyan's western defenses.

Vitamin B5 reinforces the body's defenses against stress by supporting the adrenal glands.

The air defenses fail to destroy a single enemy aircraft.

It's a fortified manor house and, despite its apparent defenses, it could never have resisted prolonged assault like a true castle.

It is fascinating to explore the battlements, dark passages and huge basement with an exhibition of England's coastal defenses.

I searched and searched for such defenses for him until I felt truly compassionate for him, and all of my resentment disappeared.

Louise was then employed as in-house counsel at a large cruise operator to give opinions and draft defenses for personal injury and other claims.

They will also cover existing customers where flood defenses will be completed within five years.

What they really mean, say the cynics, is the trust doesn't want to carry the cost of coastal defenses.

Your body has defenses to prevent bacteria from causing cystitis.

We will develop and deploy effective missile defenses to protect America and our allies from sudden attack.

Nevertheless, the coalition forces are still unable to penetrate the Iraqi defenses.

All attempts by the British troops to break through the Iraqi defenses from the south along the Al-Arab river have yielded not results.

Finally, this report does not provide a comprehensive analysis of theater missile defenses in the Asia-Pacific region.

While the frigates attacked the galleons, Blake's heavier warships sailed into the harbor to bombard the shore defenses.

The Cubans stepped on the gas and started to punch holes in the defenses.

Meanwhile, we have strengthened our defenses here at home, including a comprehensive reorganization of our government to better protect the homeland.

But her defenses were rock solid, the Great Wall of China against Mongol hordes.

On Thursday, large numbers of American and British aircraft were destroying Iraqi air defenses as a prelude to ground incursions.

Britain's defenses are paying an increasingly intolerable price.

Then at Klip's Drift, on the 15th, 900 men of 9th and 16th lancers charged the Boer defenses.

Essentially biological liposuction works because it is possible to trick the immune defenses into thinking that the fat cells are appropriate targets for elimination.

At the turn of the century the harbor defenses at Cork were being rebuilt to take breech loading artillery.

Other triggers cab be changes in host defenses e.g. friction during sexual intercourse inflaming the mucous membranes.

This is broadly aligned on the outer defenses and may be an intra mural walkway used defensively.

The trouble with new attacking ploys is that defenses seem to be able to find the solution almost instantaneously.

Material factor defenses Is the defense tainted by discrimination?

Five common sandpipers and 20+ turnstones were present on the new sea defenses at Glyne Gap.

Indeed, Bath was not provided with antiaircraft defenses because an attack was considered unlikely.

Last year's events of testing and the development of long-range missiles and development of missile defenses have become worrisome.

It would be the second time in a month that Iraqi defenses had brought down one of the American reconnaissance drones.

The defenses were pitiful, reminding me of defenses from relegated teams of recent years.

Do we repel invaders by running along the defenses?

The attackers had to get through a series of castle defenses before reaching this inner sanctum of the castle.

Coastal squeeze occurs where fixed sea defenses prevent the natural migration of saltmarsh inland as estuaries become subject to sea level rise.

Cirencester was held for Parliament in early 1643, but it was a straggling town with inadequate defenses.

Adur Stonecrops The Beadlet Anemones, Actinia equina, in the third image (far right) are from the syenite rock sea defenses.

Meanwhile, these accords will not impede our efforts to develop the capable theater missile defenses we need.

Bill Clinton 's first budget shifted funds from national to theater missile defenses.

On open ground, I would keep a vigilant eye on my defenses.