Line of troops and armament, fortified and set up to protect a high-value location during an armed conflict.
1Someone threw a petrol bomb as protesters formed a defence line.
2Riot police inside the building formed a defence line to prevent the protesters from entering.
3A thin defence line, that was all we had.'
4He understands what it means and keeps changing his version according to the convenient defence line.
5The Tigers said they beat back a military attempt to attack their forward defence line in Jaffna.
6Plastic bullets were fired when a number of Orangemen broke through the first barbed wire defence line at Drumcree.
7The brilliant operations on the defence line proved to be but the prelude to Marlborough's second great life disappointment.
8Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan said the Tigers foiled a bid to overrun their bunkers on the Jaffna forward defence line.
9Soldiers killed another two rebels who were trying to attack a defence line in Vavuniya, in the north, he said.
10Soldiers killed another two rebels who were trying to infiltrate a defence line in Jaffna in the north, he said.
11Soldiers ambushed and killed two rebels in Kilali south of a rebel defence line the army seized last week, he said.
12Soldiers killed another two rebels who were trying to infiltrate a defence line in Jaffna in the north on Friday, he said.
13Fresh troops were sent to the towns of Mankulam and Kanakarayankulam to rebuild a defence line to stop further advances, the officials said.
14During their initial tour of the Passchendaele system much heavy work was done in converting the shell-hole defence line into trenches, and patrolling.
15In the latest confrontation, the military said, troops had fought off a Tiger attack early on Monday on their forward defence line on the pensinsula.
16Air force jets on Saturday blasted a defence line near the port of Mullaittivu, which is the last major town the LTTE holds, Nanayakkara said.
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