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Offense's opposite
Answer for the clue "Offense's opposite ", 7 letters:
defense
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In many team sports , defence or defense is the action of preventing an opponent from scoring. The term may also refer to the tactics involved in defense, or a sub-team whose primary responsibility is defense. Similarly, a defense player or defender is ...
Usage examples of defense.
With several other delegates, Adams spent a day inspecting defenses on the Delaware.
Like other Republicans, Jefferson failed to understand how Adams could reconcile negotiation for peace with measures of defense, and in private correspondence accused Adams of willfully endangering the peace.
Though it was clearly a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, its Federalist proponents in Congress insisted, like Adams, that it was a war measure, and an improvement on the existing common law in that proof of the truth of the libel could be used as a legitimate defense.
While his entire political standing, his reputation as President, were riding on his willingness to make peace, Adams was no less ardent for defense.
The German Air Force had built a big airdrome outside of Mannheim where a fighter wing had been based, back in the days when the Third Reich had an effective air defense system.
Nonetheless, Major Tim Benson, airdrome defense officer, scrambled every available fighter ready for takeoff.
That was standard procedure on Alii Drive in winter storms: first sirens, then roadblocks and panic, and finally forced evacuation of all beachfront homes by Civil Defense rescue teams.
By the time the amtracks were coming ashore, the most stubborn defenses had already been overrun or neutralized.
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During these years Gombos paid a visit to Ankara and Warsaw with the aim to create with the help of Turkey and Poland a line of defense against the imperialistic threatening from the West and from the East.
And reports were just coming in from overhead imagery that the transports had unloaded the ZIL-85 antiair defense systems vehicles and that they were already being dispersed about the island, hidden under the canopy of trees in the interior.
If you allow them to establish a couple of squadrons on the island, along with their antiair defenses, there will be no way we can gain air superiority immediately.
According to the analyst, there was no indication that there were antiair defenses in place, and no indication that they would be installed.
We forget that antibacterial defenses were developed by bacteria themselves long before the evolution of plant or animal life on Earth.
Strategic Defense Initiative, an antiballistic missile and space vehicle weapon.