German preparations would require at least a few weeks, but all defensive precautions were made with an extreme sense of urgency.

That would have been only fifty-some years before; recent enough to justify any defensive precautions on Colum's part.

She had also eliminated a host of enemies immediately after seizing power, taking such action as a defensive precaution.

"We have taken only defensive precautions," Defense Minister Husnu Dogan said in an interview.

Yes, we did, but those don't seem to me like adequate defensive precautions.

We wrapped up our session by planning those defensive precautions we'd undertake over the course of the next two days in order to "protect our own."

It would be foolish to ignore the obvious signs of recession at home and not take the necessary defensive precautions.

Holroyd drew a deep breath, said, 'If your defensive precautions are at all nor- mal, you won't have to worry.'

But the chief reason for the failure to take defensive precautions appears to have been that the British command severely underestimated the Zulu capabilities.

The ground floor is fairly complete with vaulted accommodation, with two guard rooms, each having a single door; a typical defensive precaution of the time.