"defensive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It is characterised by a keep, massive for the time, whose use was essentially defensive.
- General Jovic said such "military engineering" is essentially defensive.
- While the support being sought by the United States is essentially defensive, it is still politically sensitive.
- It had an essentially defensive function that included responsibility for the early warning system.
- The early Roman army was tactically limited and its stance during this period was essentially defensive.
- An essentially defensive objective had replaced the grand aggressions of an earlier era.
- However, he favoured continued resistance against the Germans and had always been an opponent of France's essentially defensive military strategy.
- But they held power for only four years, and their guerrilla war since then has been essentially defensive.
- The fact that he had chosen aikido as his first discipline of study was telling, because its governing theories were essentially defensive.
- What started as an essentially defensive effort soon became a full-blown campaign of conquest.
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