Significados de defensive measure em inglês

The sunken road leading to the bridge had been a defensive measure.

Telecom has been accused of retaining its 75 per cent stake purely as a defensive measure.

This dirt bath is a defensive measure against the hordes of ticks that infest the rhino.

They called Barbara every time he escaped, a courtesy and probably a defensive measure against future lawsuits.

The convoy is purely a defensive measure.

Randall Clayton had schooled himself since Jack Witherspoon's departure in every defensive measure against the secret plotters.

If we are to deploy patriot missiles it would be a purely defensive measure to defend and protect Turkey.

The success of such a remedial and defensive measure would naturally depend upon the adequacy of the franchise aimed at.

Rasmussen has said any missile deployment would be a defensive measure to counterattacks, and not to enforce a no-fly zone.

Alexander's sounding of the Poles was a defensive measure, seriously undertaken only after Napoleon's refusal to discourage the Polish nationalists.

The main town is set on a hill above its port of Kapsali, a common defensive measure in the days of piracy.

That is a defensive measure, you must observe, because even if I talked it quite slowly they would understand just as little.

From Britain's point of view, the 1800 Act of Union was primarily a defensive measure to secure its western flank against the French.

Moreover, war in itself, excepting as a defensive measure or on a point of honor, seemed rather poor business to the thrifty Rivermouthians.

A hard turn away from Keynesian policies could now be justified as an urgent defensive measure, lest your country abruptly turn into another Greece.

Most, however, just get rid of the helmet as a defensive measure to signal to exuberant team mates not to thump them on the head.