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I don’t want you to explain to them the next time you are having an argument, that they are being defensive, being argumentative and being closed minded
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Liz’d got terribly defensive, baulking at the expenditure
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WRONG in the world!” is the typical defensive reaction the
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The missile program in South Africa can be used to instruct African nations to defend themselves from incoming missiles and engage in defensive battles
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He could see that she was on the defensive, but decided to call her bluff anyway
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The experience can be very thrilling but it’s important that you be on the defensive when you meet for the very first time
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It took many visits, but she became more and more open and less defensive
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indifference and Helen’s defensive walls would be breached
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Somewhere along the corridor the sound of a vacuum cleaner resumes its low drone and Carol's defensive brusqueness breaks as Dave's shirt absorbs the moisture that spills from her eyes and onto her cheeks
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defensive positions around the causeway
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Carol dams the flood of words threatening to overflow her defensive walls
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Only gZarvik had really seemed defensive, that was because he was known to have predicted favor for those who brought in a body for the ghost
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Such combinations, however, are frequently resisted by a contrary defensive combination of the workmen, who sometimes, too, without any provocation of this kind, combine, of their own accord, to raise tile price of their labour
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But whether their combinations be offensive or defensive, they are always abundantly heard of
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Apparently the defensive strategy, dreamed up by Rafe and Brice, involved turning the city streets into a 'death trap for the dead', as Rafe put it
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Drau’d was a genius builder, his talents easily adapting to defensive construction of the battlefield
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Ome was on the verge of directing the Elders and Chosen into defensive formations, maybe barricade themselves within the Hangar before the Dark Army found them, when suddenly a Chosen shouted out in warning
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It is a defensive reaction of the nature
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Perhaps the dream parallels a waking situation where it has put you on the defensive
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You need to be on guard and on the defensive
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"It looks lethal," we observe, and Pong instantly goes on the defensive
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‘You mean to kill it?’ said Danny who wished immediately that his words had not sounded so defensive
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These would be used later on either on raids or as offensive defensive weapons when you used the bombs you would light the fuse and let it burn for a few seconds and then heave it
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‘A mere defensive strategy is no longer acceptable
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And you don't have to be so defensive
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She realized Jeff was putting her on the defensive and she didn’t have to be!
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How can it be supposed that he should be the only rich man in his dominions who is insensible to pleasures of this kind ? If he does not, what he is very likely to do, spend upon those pleasures so great a part of his revenue as to debilitate very much the defensive power of the state, it cannot well be expected that he should not spend upon them all that part of it which is over and above what is necessary for supporting that defensive power
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” A defensive Jack then told the
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Pomegranate and grape seed extract keep sunscreen in the very top layer of the skin, where their defensive action is needed
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“Our Division the 31st has been given the job of forming the defensive flank of the whole Fourth Army this will involve us driving east to capture the village of Serre and then turning north and consolidating our gains
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Now the Americans were in Russian territory they could be subject to the most extreme defensive actions
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And so it had been agreed, drawn up by treaty, not to deploy them as an offensive or defensive weapon
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Ushon Ping has signed an agreement to provide a military force of five hundred and twenty thousand to initially set up a defensive zone around the core European countries, effectively creating land and air confinement
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‘This so-called defensive confinement is a clear strategy to provoke an aggressive response,’ he began
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There were just too many small differences regarding ‘what if’ scenarios, the defensive strategies if the conflict spread
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“This is Hawk Moth Flutters,” she said as she swung the sword through the air, twisting the two swipes around her form, another defensive move that was also deadly
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safety of her life pod as her ship had hurtled through the black infinity of space, the defensive array
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He is certainly the dominant defensive football player in football
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No huddle keeps the defense in their defensive look longer, allowing the QB to get a better look at what they’re doing
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The defensive players also have to stay in their stance longer tiring them out
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As a middle linebacker, he anchored and led the defensive team
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He was a very positive guy and he worked both sides of the ball in practice, encouraging the defensive and the offensive players
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This was supposed to be the job of the defensive coaches and they started out telling Tony to mind his own business, just run the offense, but he kept doing it and after awhile they just left him alone because it was a positive influence
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You show him every kind of defensive trick you have and keep unrelenting pressure on him and that’s what Baltimore had done
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But, when you blitz, you take defensive players out of their regular positions and charge the quarterback, leaving players in single coverage often mismatched
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Tony Reilly went in with the offensive coordinator to look at defensive formations and discuss second half strategy as they usually did
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something defensive about that, because from one week to the next you could never be sure where
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Minnesota defensive lineman put his hand up and tipped the ball thrown to the Tight End on a crossing pattern
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The ball hit the receiver in the shoulder, bounced up in the air and into the arms of the Defensive Back who ran it 30 yards into the end zone untouched
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He was a defenseman back in an era when the defenseman position was a defensive player
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But in that case they’d have also come out with shields up and in a defensive
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With the defense out of position, Reilly found his Tight End all alone in a defensive mix-up for another 25 yards
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She automatically ducked beneath the blow, rolling to the right and coming up in a defensive crouch
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" His voice took on a defensive quality
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As of mid-November, the UNITA/SADF force had destroyed the Cuito Cuanavale airfield and pinned down thousands of FAPLA's best remaining units clinging onto the town's defensive perimeters
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Wood‘s enormous talents have ―suffered‖ a recent set back, his ―denial‖ is merely defensive posturing common among many successful athletes whose skills have diminished and are no longer able to perform on a level many have grown accustomed or who simply find themselves in the throes of a protracted slump
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She felt closed in, hot, angry, and defensive
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I wondered if he was retreating into a defensive shell and this interview had all but ended
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He started to back slowly away from me his hands held up in a karate defensive position – like maybe he could catch a speeding bullet
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The meeting progressed with an update on their defensive plan and the state of the various troops available to them
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Round and round they circled each other in the defensive crouches that kept their weapons well out in front
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It constantly compares all the files that you download with a list of already discovered viruses and takes a defensive action every time a match is identified
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Pennsylvania said once he never heard of a defensive use of a firearm
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The governor who told Lott he didn’t know of a single defensive use of a gun was the same guy who went to Florida to help get the military votes disqualified in the 2000 presidential election
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Not that there is anything like a Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy or anything! It’s done to put their opponents on the defensive
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“No need to get defensive!” She smiles
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She isn’t defensive, which means she might be telling the truth
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The Persians were mainly defensive, with their armor, spears and round shields
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defensive and strange behavior of its agencies, for instance, the FBI and NTSB, in the TWA 800 case?
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Instead of retreating to Santillo and forming a defensive line, he and his impatient army chose to fight at the fortress town of Monterrey
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The enemy’s forces pulled back into a tighter, more defensive stance
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Cloud was quick to adopt a defensive stance as he and the young
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Yukino stood there in a defensive stance, silent, her breathing steady
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We quickly built the bridge across the river, crossed it, and set up defensive camp
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The defensive nanobots inside her body are trying to fight them off, but are being overpowered
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Ishvara glared around us, scanning our surroundings, growling the way vampires do when they’re on the defensive
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Jiva’s body was arched in the defensive position vampires take, but you just had to look at her once to know that her body was trying to appear a lot more heroic than she felt inside
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Their main tasks are scanning through solid objects, detecting threats’ defensive and offensive systems, opening subspace portals and guiding an EIS’s molecules through optic-warp
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He has to choose which defensive and offensive weapons he wants
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Jaden tries to block and stays on the defensive
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Jaden sees the offensive and defensive weapon systems on the screen
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‘Okay, skip the rest, I can figure out the defensive weapons
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In any defensive or offensive maneuver, his part of the operation was the most vulnerable and time-consuming
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defensive treaty with Rome
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defensive and tell me that she was completely innocent and for me
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defensive when I asked her about it
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earshot of her, she became very defensive about it, even
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“He sucked every detail of our forces and deployments out of my brain in a moment, and did the same with the rest of the commanders as well! Then he had a plan, as quick as if he’d had a year to think about it! He’s formed mixed companies for both defense and attack, reassigning units to new postings all over the world, from a few individuals to legions in size! Over a fifth of the alliance’s military were thus reassigned to mobile forces, and he’s building defensive formations around every major military target with more layers than an onion! And it’s all traps within traps, warriors hidden by spells, spells hidden by warriors, tricky and cunning thinking, every bit of it!
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Where were options or awards of equity? Where was my retirement agreement? On the rare occasions when Park was on the defensive, his dark eyes under the bushy eyebrows shown with threatening intensity
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The following year we traded inventory with Penn Outdoor in two counties in Pennsylvania for 55 thirty-sheet faces in Elmira, Watkins Glen, Bath and Utica, mostly as a defensive measure to prevent further expansion by competitors in our markets
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All of their barriers and defensive spells now face inward, rather than out
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I doubt the distinction has improved his disposition any, since he was always defensive about his size, and quick to challenge any who slighted him
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As they re-appeared they could see that the twenty Sylvan had reached the objective stone, and that half of them were already starting to dig it out, while the other half assumed a defensive formation before it
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Talia is watching behind Mark and casting a constantly shifting series of defensive spells and Shields designed to protect them while being uninhibiting to Mark’s attack
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The other pair remained on the ground and on the defensive as the female Shielded against the Firebolts, and the male skillfully deflected the javelins with two small steel shields strapped to his fore-arms, oblivious to their crackling discharge
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“He says; ‘We fear not your magic! If you wish to defeat us, you will have to come down here and taste my axe!’ His mate appears to be a defensive specialist, and she could likely hold that Shield for a week
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We could curtail our citizens’ newly-enhanced luxuries and joys, and militarize as thoroughly as they have in Venak, but that wouldn’t help our defensive position as much as you might think
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The only other course that has been proposed with any seriousness involves fighting a very long defensive war, and relying on the tactical advantage that such a defensive stance conveys
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Meanwhile, Mark attacked on the physical plane while Talia re-formed their shielding with a completely different set of defensive spells than she’d used previously
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They no longer seemed to fear the occasional defensive arrow flung in their direction