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Usage examples of defensive.

Its armies had closed to the Siegfried Line, the main German defensive position in the West, and at one point, at Aachen, north of the Ardennes, they had punched a large hole in it.

Colt autopistol as the single best handgun choice for defensive use under conditions of long-term survival.

A defensive block of patrolships positioned themselves between the approaching Qin battleships and the mining station.

Kallians had retreated all the way back to their own borders, where they began building strong defensive positions.

Other topics of conversation having been exhausted, Liir asked his mates, Burny and Ansonby, about the place of husbandry in the development of new defensive systems for the Emerald City.

As it happened, Ansonby and Burny had both flirted briefly with defensive husbandry.

Their only hope was to get inside the Cebu defensive screen and strike the great pegasi down by bullet or stinger, even though the latter method would mean their own deaths as well.

Depends what the Chicoms have had time to set up as a defensive unit down here in the mud flats.

The canisters used standard missile tubes to put additional clusters of defensive birds into space, and despite her vicious damage, the ship still had three-quarters of her counter-missile uplinks, which gave her control channels to spare.

Oraibi is laid out quite as openly as any other of the group, and as additions to its size have from time to time been made the builders have, in the absence of the defensive motive for crowding the rows or groups into large clusters, simply followed the usual arrangement.

On October 31st the force remained on the defensive, but early on November 1st the gleaming of two heliographs, one to the north-east and one to the south-west, told that two British columns, those of De Lisle and of Barter, were hastening to the rescue.

Silent and whitely bitter, Lord Diegan spurred his horse to try against weather and odds to assemble a defensive deployment from mercenary captains now scattered throughout the caravan.

Gunny Holdren set up ambushes and defensive positions in other parts of the woods and in fields, and the men and dogs went on patrol after patrol.

The Ochoan soldiers in defensive positions above the castles had been wearing goggles and earmuffs that made them impervious to the power.

Vorian Atreides was not at the helm, Dante ordered his fanatically loyal neos to build up a defensive line.