The whole false self, our "lifestyle," is an elaborate defense against entering our wounded heart.

The elaborate defenses surrounding stationhouses are testaments to the hazards.

In the end, though, after the Horizon's elaborate defenses had failed, many lives were saved by simple acts of bravery, the interviews and records show.

But far more elaborate and expensive defenses would be needed to protect against missiles launched from a submarine offshore.

She guided her consciousness past the elaborate defenses of the gestalt and heard its voices.

He built elaborate defenses and strongholds, along with fortified cities.

Everybody thought he was crazy until three Omniverters hewed their way through his elaborate defenses to get him.

Althalus agreed, staring at the massive and elaborate defenses of Mawor.

There were less elaborate defenses thrown forward into the south fork valley; they didn't look adequate to hold.

Pressed by expanded drug enforcement campaigns, the traffickers could decide to mount more elaborate defenses.