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Example sentences for "defense against"

  • The material benefits which this ruling class contribute are: defense against aggression, and promotion of the community's material gain, 60.

  • Solely, or almost solely, in the exceptional case of defense against a predatory incursion from outside, do the members of the group have a common interest of a material kind.

  • Particularly would the people's patience balk at the extensive military training requisite to put the country in an adequate position of defense against a sudden and well-prepared offensive.

  • There is now no defense against R-f2 which attacks g2 and b2 at the same time.

  • By natural selection, measles has become a powerful enemy of the human race, and a race to which this infection is newly introduced has not had the advantage of building up a defense against it by the law of natural selection.

  • I believe it can be shown that it is possible to elicit the emotion of fear only in those animals that utilize a motor mechanism in defense against danger or in escape from it.

  • Mr. Beck has tried to justify the mobilization by quoting the Russian excuse "that Russia's mobilization was only for a defense against Austria.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    commonly supposed; considerable extent; daily occurrence; defense against; defense expenditures; est une; fear not; high voice; just because; like little; little known; many lands; natural justice; previously mentioned; public servants; said poor; that has; till about; torian guard; unnamed location; upward direction; went afterwards; would tell