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Usage examples of "defensive measure".
Designed to deploy decoy enhanced-drive missiles as a defensive measure, those seven launchers were all he had to fire AMBAMs, and if the Bugs had been close enough to hammer his battle-line while it was still pinned down on the warp point, the entire operation would have had to be scrubbed.
No defensive measure there, Pwent led his forces down the slope farmer than any dwarves had previously gone, shattering the orc line and their supporting allies.
NO DEFENSIVE MEASURE THERE, PWENT LED HIS FORCES DOWN THE SLOPE FARMER THAN ANY DWARVES HAD PREVIOUSLY GONE, SHATTERING THE ORC LINE AND THEIR SUPPORTING ALLIES.
Banging straight aft for a trailer is a logical defensive measure, but he can't go punching holes all over the ocean, can he?
Small commands of Legion foot soldiers had already descended the mobile rampway on the left flank and staged a short counterattack into the enemy ranks as a defensive measure to protect the mounted regiment's only link with the besieged city.
That defensive measure proved unnecessary, however, for his initial passage delivered Shorrosh to the primary fortress of the Aliz.
Amain, reflecting on the merits of attack as a defensive measure, waved a cab up to the balcony and had himself ferried to the first setback of the.
I believe that the city is somehow replicating itself as a defensive measure.
You too, my pupil Plinio, the moment you received the blow -- or what you exaggeratedly thought a blow -- should have applied the first defensive measure against psychic assaults and resorted to slow, carefully controlled breathing.
The long narrow passage, obviously constructed as a defensive measure against intruders, followed the curve of the main wall until abruptly it opened into a clear space, again choked with dense green thorny growth, and dominated by a tall cylindrical tower of lichen-covered granite blocks.