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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
For me, I just go out there and play defense, hit some open shots and keep it rolling.
All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day. — © Libba Bray
All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.
Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe that in terms of an individual's development they are followed by mechanisms of secondary emotions, which occur once we begin experiencing feelings and forming systematic connections between categories of objects and situations, on the one hand, and primary emotions, on the other.
Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.
I think we will have to spend more on defense, for infrastructure, for extension of the broadband network and also for domestic security.
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
When I was elected as president, it was prohibited for any American or NATO officer even to enter our Ministry of Defense.
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
You name me a Super Bowl that had a pacifistic defense, and I'll give you my paycheck. I'm serious. There aren't any.
I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules. — © Rupert Friend
I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules.
Passing and defense are two things that help build your team, brings the best out of people.
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.
In the digital world, content has the tendency to lose value, especially on smart devices. We finally found solutions to the problem. We will not merely port games developed for our dedicated systems to smart devices just as they are - we will develop brand new software which perfectly matches the play style and control mechanisms of smart devices.
If the men and women who protect the country are to succeed in the missions they are assigned, we simply must invest more in defense.
You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.
I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.
We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.
I go out every day and try to play great defense. I know my hitting will improve.
Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays.
The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.
I'd rather save a home run than hit one. I've always been like that. Defense is what I pride myself on.
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish 'psychic distance' from the 'mental facts' to which Köhler referred, and then to explore the possibilities for developing explanatory theories... We must recognize that even the most familiar phenomena require explanation and that we have no privileged access to the underlying mechanisms, no more so than in physiology or physics.
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.
The National Defense Strategy remains our guiding document, and everything we do should support its stated objectives.
We are now living in a completely digitalized world and a completely globalized world, so we have to find some new mechanisms and values to deal with this post-digitalized and post-globalized world.
Today, we are not likely to need to organize local militias for our defense now we have something called the Pentagon.
But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.
At the end of the day, if I can keep playing defense, I'm going to be able to stay on the floor, and obviously that's what everyone wants to do.
Britain's independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion.
When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.
We know our job. We are grinders and we are physical and we need to make their (defense) look back over their shoulders.
The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. — © Vaclav Havel
The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
Many activists and antagonists who are on the wrong side of an issue employ the tactic of, 'the best defense is a good offense.'
President Trump is a defense lawyer's worst nightmare - and a dream defendant for special counsel Robert Mueller.
The decision to withdraw our missile defense sites from Poland put us in greater jeopardy, in my view.
I've been putting 100% of work into defense like I do hitting because that way I can help my team more.
Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.
With all the talk of the 3-point line, it's still most important to build your defense inside to out.
Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.
Before I was a prosecutor, I was a defense attorney. I took a cut in pay because I wanted to stand up for the victims.
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is. — © Kofi Annan
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.
Regardless of what you do, or who you have, at the end of the day you have to be able to execute better than the defense does in order to score points.
That the mechanisms of mass-production, which feed the demand for endlessly growing consumption in one generation can radically effect the possible futures for subsequent generations. Furthermore, to undo the effects of one generation's actions is not temporally relative. What is done, cannot be undone in the same timeframe. Like the factories themselves, the effects linger, they haunt us long after their final breath.
I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines.
I guess people looked at me in college, said I couldn't shoot or play defense. I proved them wrong.
The Democratic Party has been perceived to have a deficit of credibility on defense issues since the Vietnam War, unfairly or not.
I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same.
I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
State and local governments in New Jersey are a critical line of defense in the effort to respond to COVID-19.
I do all the dirty work: play defense, grab rebounds, block shots and finish strong around the rim.
Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.
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