For centuries, the Chinese have used astragalus, or milk vetch root, to treat ailments by strengthening the body's natural defenses. |
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For the last two seasons, the Texans have been one of the worst defenses in the league at sacking the quarterback. |
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Just outside their door, three Cats probed their defenses, a young notch-eared orange-haired tom and two tabby females. |
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Moss' presence also helps the running game because defenses often keep safeties deep to account for him. |
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Their speed will force defenses to use their safeties deeper to help the corners. |
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Still, he needs to read defenses better and gain a better understanding of when to call audibles. |
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I hadn't spent my whole seventeen years perfecting my defenses to my mother's attempts at shaming me for nothing. |
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The sociological truism is that a societal order is shored up by its legitimations, which provide the defenses against its despisers. |
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First, it would not require each country to expend scarce resources to build its own defenses against every air and missile threat. |
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Jones goes on to make six defenses of the IBF super middleweight title, stopping all six of his opponents. |
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This appears to weaken the car's defenses and the blonde will then be able to open both doors using a combination of her beeper and key. |
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Fruit defenses weaken after maturation, facilitating invasions by yeasts and fungi. |
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The immune system can be severely depleted, with the suppression of immunity allowing infection to overwhelm the body while defenses are down. |
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Teams looking for thumpers for the middle of their defenses won't find many of them in this draft. |
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He's tried to be tough on national defense, talking about beefing up our defenses at home, in terms of homeland security and abroad. |
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Cantus swung frantically, attempting to deflect his opponent's blows, one of his swipes finally scoring underneath Soren's defenses. |
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This is music to play when you're at the cottage, when all your defenses and pretenses are left back in the city. |
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While this was the largest battle of WWII, the outcome was preordained because the Russians dug in line after line of complicated defenses. |
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Artur, you are one of boxing's longest reigning champions with 17 title defenses. |
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To avoid predation, animals show morphological defenses and behavioral modifications. |
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At a personal level, it wastes our energies, dampens the immune system, and undermines the body's natural defenses against illness. |
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Offenses can't run up the middle on them, and many teams take plays out of their game plans when facing defenses that feature these players. |
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When it comes to cybersquatting, spoof names, trademark defenses, and legal actions, one of the fee-based services will be necessary. |
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The trademark of Stallion basketball when he was there was 40 minutes of full-court presses and trapping defenses. |
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In turn, the crossbills in the squirrel-less areas have evolved deeper bills, thereby partly countering the cones' defenses. |
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The aircraft also is configured with advanced countermeasures to reduce the effectiveness of enemy defenses. |
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Is there tension between one of the league's perennially elite offenses and one of its most porous defenses? |
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They reached the ravine and fiercely laid siege to the strong defenses made there in the last attempt to stop them. |
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Guards Timmy Bowers and Gary Ervin will be more effective feeding the ball inside and keeping defenses honest on the perimeter. |
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Many oak traits may act as selective mechanisms, including tree age, seasonal phenology, and chemical and structural defenses. |
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The guerrillas overcame the physical defenses by rigging up an improvised multiple rocket launcher. |
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The homeless people, the mistaken identity, quite a few defenses at work here, and seeing what may or may not stick with this jury. |
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Despite having the best network defenses, enterprises were helpless to maintain their peak level of operation. |
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I think we let our defenses down a bit after the Cold War and wanted to enjoy the peace dividend. |
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Another hallmark of parasites is that hosts often evolve defenses against them. |
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Thus, defenses evolved in response to one parasite can give hosts protection against other parasitic species. |
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Most skeptics are homing in on what looks like a halting drive to beef up domestic defenses against terrorists. |
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Coach Smith's system of different defenses are charted in the following diagram. |
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Strategically speaking, the Florida cession closed a vulnerable point in American coastal defenses. |
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In the past, he was so good at pounding the strong side of the formation that defenses would have to overload to that side. |
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It looks like a strike force that was going to test our defenses at Stronghold, maybe hoping to take it back. |
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He was daring and intelligent, produced huge plays and scared defenses with his orchestration of the offense. |
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There's certainly a lot to say, from articulating defenses of basic rights to strategizing about the best balance between principle and politics. |
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Michael is one of the fastest straightaway runners in the league, and defenses must change the way they play when he's in the game. |
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He and his men were to penetrate the U.S. defenses and disrupt the flow of supplies heading to their front line. |
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Building defenses to stop offensive missiles has gone global, as well it should. |
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Likewise, if your No.2 wideout is set to face tough defenses in three consecutive weeks, don't stand pat and take that kind of scoring hit. |
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The resistance genes that she and her colleagues are studying can be inserted into nonresistant rice plants to trigger their defenses. |
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Anest ducked under its defenses, and thrust his sword deep into the Demon's vitals where it stuck, half-melted. |
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On the Raiders side, you get to see one of the most vicious, ugliest defenses known to man and NFL Films. |
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Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses. |
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Handling double-teams will be easier if his teammates, especially Mercer, can make enough shots to keep defenses honest. |
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With file team's quarterback so unsteady, opposing defenses have been able to take him out of the game by double-teaming him. |
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A No.2 receiver is needed to stretch defenses and make opponents pay for double-teaming him. |
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They are predisposed to preoperative airway colonization and altered host defenses, thus creating a nidus for postoperative infection. |
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Strong defenses and a sense of denial are hallmarks of the substance abuser's psychology. |
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Our secret was to try to disguise our defenses so the quarterback didn't know what we were going to do until the ball was snapped. |
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I briefed the crew on all the maneuvers I planned to complete, including mild aerobatics, SAM defenses, and, finally, low-level defensive jinks. |
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Meanwhile, the new English King Aella plans to wed Princess Morgana of Wales in the hope of strengthening English defenses against the Vikings. |
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Everyone knew tomorrow's mission involved an armored advance against possible heavy enemy defenses. |
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In an era of the steady, dour beat of half-court offenses and slap-happy defenses, this Carolina team sings a pretty nostalgic song. |
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When a microbe or a virus invades the body, white cells are among the first of the body's defenses to attack the invading organisms. |
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The guy can still throw the ball, he understands how to read defenses and he can move the chains. |
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This large-scale, sophisticated operation collapsed the opposition defenses within a week, resulting in the recapture of the region. |
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Study your opponent, keep your defenses up and systematically exploit weaknesses. |
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When we turn our minds to matters of e-security, our first thoughts tend to be about defenses such as firewalls and intrusion detection. |
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However, as they approached and she saw the ambulance and all the patrol cars, she put her defenses on alert and prepared herself for anything. |
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Finally, group living often provides diurnal rodents with better predator defenses. |
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Mobility is supposed to be the key to success in the modern NFL, because of the blitzes thrown by opposing defenses. |
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In fact, it seems the only reason Kidd shoots is to keep opposing defenses honest. |
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It is used as an adjunctive treatment to help stimulate the immune system and increase body defenses. |
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This also marks the introduction of siege warfare and the deliberate efforts to counter static defenses. |
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In addition, steroid hormones are known to impair enzymic antioxidant defenses and directly induce oxidative stress. |
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Coach George Seifert says opposing defenses look for turnovers when he has the ball. |
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On the shoulders of these three clubs rests the continued truthfulness behind the assumption that defenses do win championships. |
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In the preseason, defenses don't disguise what they are doing to the degree they do in games that count. |
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Combat in the depth of enemy defenses is normally waged in several places simultaneously by disunited groups. |
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This force would attack south and penetrate enemy defenses around the city of Kursk to envelop remaining enemy forces in the salient. |
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The push of the main group of forces should be directed at exploiting success and thwarting the enemy's attempts to restore its defenses. |
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But since we live in a world in which diseases do exist, we develop defenses against it. |
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But in the face of biohackers, serious defenses need to be discussed, and I believe that transparency is the most realistic solution. |
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The governor is a proponent of early deployment of missile defenses to meet the threat that is emerging and growing from rogue states. |
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Fleets of aircraft, armadas of ships, armies of soldiers came across the English Channel and struck the German defenses. |
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The pirarucu's sheer size and bony armor provide defenses against predators. |
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In an extreme case, it can alert US air defenses to shoot down a suspect plane. |
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Drawn toward the city gates, they fell victim to an array of crossbows and trebuchets from within the city defenses. |
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However, because defense can only be induced with predators, the individuals with induced defenses are preconditioned to the presence of predators. |
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In another unusual move, the grand jury considered not only the basic elements of the crime, but also affirmative defenses. |
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And even as he plots defenses against American and allied air raids, he is taunting Vladimir Putin and his allies in Grozny. |
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The cruise-missile attacks were aimed largely at degrading Libya's antiaircraft defenses, which were considerable. |
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Luckily, Tor was prepared for this sort of assault, and has built-in defenses to protect against it. |
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His CO, Major Mack Conrad, ordered Grace to take one of the company's Hurricane Mobile Assault Vehicles in to recon the city and see what kind of defenses had been set up. |
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But he had his own defenses, a great off-hand resilience and a deadpan humor, and he survived. |
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Yet with all this star power, the game ended as a scoreless tie as both defenses played superbly. |
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He's one of the few players who still can dazzle defenses with his moves. |
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Will direct marketing shore up this weak spot in our defenses? |
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Alternatively, they may be used to signal to predators, the classic example being aposematic coloration in species that have noxious defenses, such as skunks. |
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Regression of the shell, development of aposematic colorations, and acquisition of toxic defenses are general evolutionary trends within the group. |
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This is why a multilayered approach to cyber system defenses is necessary. |
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Such Rambo-like defenses of home and hearth do not happen in real life, unless the home also happens to contain a meth lab. |
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Spanish artillery supported this position from a second line of defenses. |
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If you're a conservative and you're gratified that the administration seems unfettered by political correctness in toughening up the nation's defenses, don't be so gratified. |
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The value of defenses such as spines or sticky hairs, the regurgitation of plant toxins on an enemy, and the ability to mimic a snake is easy to imagine. |
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Once the Denivanian defenses were disabled, the slow, bulky troop transports would take their capitol, with escorts to defend from the remnants of the defense fleet. |
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The team is successful with shifts because Gannon is so adept at reading defenses and exploiting weaknesses, as are veteran WRs Jerry Rice and Brown. |
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Starting in the late 1960s, it figured in the public debate over antimissile defenses and the survivability of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile. |
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He's capable of martial arts tricks, but he's at home in the depths of the enemy's defenses, plumbing into their secrets and tricksily discovering their greatest secrets. |
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Or rather, he dominates opposing defenses, and he does it like no passer in football history. |
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Blake is blessed with one of the strongest arms in the league, which allows him to uncork uncannily accurate deep balls and stretch defenses vertically. |
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And then, they slipped the question in, subtly, under my defenses. |
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Something in her wiring has taught her that relaxing her defenses is dangerous. |
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There are reasons, though, to believe that Syrian airpower and air defenses are overrated. |
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Researchers speculated that organically grown plants are subject to more environmental challenges and therefore have stronger antioxidant defenses. |
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Though we can't eliminate the risk through technology, we should still build some partial defenses to reduce the risk, and also need to look for sensible non-technical steps. |
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The missile that had been readied on the launch ramp in France made it through the defenses. |
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His masses of troops had also run up against seemingly unbreakable defenses. |
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Cats, rats, stoats, possums, and ferrets have had drastic effects on native plants and bird species, many of which are flightless and have few defenses against the invaders. |
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People must learn to coexist with our coasts, live in practical areas, and, where feasible, build the necessary defenses to stormproof our society. |
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His most influential and widely cited works concern the interactions between parasitic birds and their hosts, in particular the evolution of host defenses to brood parasitism. |
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And defenses of his indefensible argument are indefensible too. |
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Neighbors who were strangers only hours ago now collaborate to erect buildings, construct roads, distribute food, establish defenses, and organize trade. |
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As Jolly notes in her introduction and own chapter in the book, the binaries of tradition and modernity are often reinforced by strenuous defenses by advocates on both sides. |
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The rivers, though generally fordable in places, afforded the Russian defenses a great advantage by channeling the German advances into more predictable routes. |
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The goal was to destroy the enemy's will to fight by demonstrating our superiority and ability to attack into their strongpoint defenses in and around the city at will. |
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I give you my pledge that if I become the President of the United States, America will keep its defenses alert and fully sufficient to meet any danger. |
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They will fire projectiles back and the longer you take to disable the defenses, the lesser of an army you'll have at your disposal to rush the remaining defenders. |
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Despite the elaborateness of many of the intellectualizing defenses in ethnic humor, we do not believe that such maneuvers actually reverse the perceptions of the victims. |
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The Yangtze flood crest will roll on downriver toward Wuhan, a city of more than 7 million people already working frantically to shore up its defenses. |
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Czechoslovakia was also in fear of Hitler and began building its own defenses. |
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The sheer destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes the quest for defenses a mug's game. |
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The Britons then requested assistance from Honorius, but when he replied in 410 he told them to manage their own defenses. |
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Caterpillars have evolved defenses against physical conditions such as cold, hot or dry environmental conditions. |
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Some researchers found that this plant species has two different defenses for when it is being fed on and when a butterfly is in oviposition. |
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As a public defender, Jonas had a crushing caseload and never felt that he could prepare his clients' defenses properly. |
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Naval forces under Farragut ran past Confederate defenses south of New Orleans. |
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Mobile defenses could be had underwater, too, in the form of nuclear submarines capable of firing missiles. |
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The Soviets had intelligence of what was to come and prepared massive defenses in huge depth in the Kursk salient. |
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With more and more courts, prosecutors, and defenses relying on e-mail and instant messages as evidence, Fisher's article is a must-read. |
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In all, Louis made 25 defenses of his heavyweight title from 1937 to 1948, and was a world champion for 11 years and 10 months. |
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But even mild brain trauma can release superoxides at levels that overwhelm the brain's natural defenses. |
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The city's defenses were not strong enough to keep out the invaders. |
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The effect of direct and indirect defenses in two wild brassicaceous plant species on a specialist herbivore and its gregarious endoparasitoid. |
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Armor, spines, and similar defenses may also have evolved in response to vision. |
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This off-the-ball running can cause all sorts of headaches for defenders, especially in man-to-man defenses. |
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The Power Pitch has simple blocking rules that are effective against blitzing defenses because they use gap-blocking principles. |
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Other groups of small organisms from the Neoproterozoic era also show signs of antipredator defenses. |
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The body's defenses are suppressed, exposing patients to opportunistic infection by harmful invaders. |
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Eventually the body's defenses can't keep up and a full blown bladder infection occurs again. |
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These approaches are being examined as possible defenses against bioterrorism, including anthrax or smallpox. |
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And it takes advantage of the Dreamcast's Virtual Memory Unit to allow you to secretly choose plays and defenses. |
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The drone has special coatings and a batwing shape designed to help it penetrate other nations' air defenses undetected. |
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Oxidative stress can reflect a disturbance between the systemic production of reactive oxygen species and antioxidant defenses against radicals. |
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Alibi is different from all of the other defenses... it is based upon the premise that the defendant is truly innocent. |
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To prevent further attacks we have vastly improved our defenses at home. |
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Sanders flourished, as she could roam free for open shots while opposing defenses concentrated on seniors Arpine Amirkhanyan and Andrea Chavez. |
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Most defenses will try to stop our stack offense by double-teaming down, as shown in Diag. |
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Still, rebel leaders insist the city is beefing up its defenses covertly. |
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For several days, the French and Americans bombarded the British defenses, and then began taking the outer redoubts. |
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The works of Palamas are theological defenses of the hesychastic practices. |
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The Migration Period caused the first chieftains to take control and the first defenses to be made. |
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Obtain a client's complete medical history early in the case so you can anticipate defenses related to preexisting conditions. |
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At first Pimienta planned to attack the poorly defended east side, and the English rushed there to improvise defenses. |
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Classical primary immunodeficiencies are usually monogenic disorders affecting host defenses. |
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A few defenses, in particular a court's lack of subject matter jurisdiction, need not be pleaded and may be raised at any time. |
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Most defenses must be raised at the first possible opportunity either in the answer or by motion or are deemed waived. |
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Apart from proof that there was no breach of duty, there are three principal defenses to tortious liability. |
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However, affirmative defenses such as duress or unconscionability may enable the signer to avoid the obligation. |
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Most cases are litigated in state courts and involve claims and defenses under state laws. |
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One manifestation of this is that injunctions are subject to equitable defenses, such as laches and unclean hands. |
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Finally, pythids and belids are Batesian mimics, apparently lacking any chemical defenses. |
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The Spanish attackers tunneled an extensive network of passages in order to enter the city beneath its walled defenses. |
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His army crushed the weak defenses of Zutphen and put nearly every man in town to death, hanging some by the feet while drowning 500 others. |
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The war revealed to Europe how vulnerable the Spanish defenses and bureaucracy were. |
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Infectious disease results from the interplay between those few pathogens and the defenses of the hosts they infect. |
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Galician cities would then strengthen their defenses over the following years. |
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After Odo's escape the Muslims had become overconfident and failed to maintain defenses or scout patrols. |
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At best the fixed defenses serve to warn or delay until a counterattack can be launched. |
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Grant did not cease his efforts to interdict Lee's supply lines and break through the defenses. |
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Fixed defenses alone are not much of a defense, in either ancient or modern times. |
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The most aggressive caterpillar defenses are bristles associated with venom glands. |
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A series of failed and successful attempts to stem the fascist advances follows, with Manuel's talents aiding the antifascist defenses at Toledo and Madrid. |
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The Byzantines also held it for centuries and built its first defenses. |
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These defenses included cliffline complexes similar in concept to those built at Biak. One example of the cliffline complex is found at Ginalagan. |
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Once inside a victim, the fungus feasts on the doomed creature's bloodlike hemolymph, nimbly evading prey defenses with tricks, some unknown to science. |
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Sion goes on to cover the air war situation in the fall of 1944, Eighth Air Force headquarters at High Wycombe, and German defenses against bombers. |
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Afonso prepared Malacca's defenses against a Malay counterattack, building a fortress, assigning his men to shifts and using stones from the mosque and the cemetery. |
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Reid outpointed Australian Kevin Kelly and former WBC champ Keith Mullings in defenses and then met Felix Trinidad in a superfight on March 3, 2000, in Las Vegas. |
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It was republished in 1596, as part of a larger book, the Itinerario, where Linschoten gave the details of the trade and the condition of Portuguese defenses in Asia. |
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Article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted in a particular State's law contemplate real defenses available to purported holders in due course. |
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To make these investments meaningful, I offer seven recommendations for how we might begin to reorder our priorities to enhance our defenses against biological warfare. |
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Rather than destroy the defenses, as instructed, Pimienta left a small garrison of 150 men to hold the island and prevent occupation by the Dutch. |
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Calzaghe won by unanimous decision, surpassing the 20 defenses made by Bernard Hopkins and Larry Holmes at middleweight and heavyweight respectively. |
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Title III covers pleadings, motions, defenses, and counterclaims. |
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One of the immune system's strongest cellular defenses is protein kinase R, an enzyme that lies dormant until it detects viruses replicating within a cell. |
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The Bourbon powers both sent agents to examine Britain's defenses believing that a successful Invasion of Britain was an essential part of any war of revenge. |
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Substantive law, which refers to the actual claims and defenses whose validity is tested through the procedures of procedural law, is different from procedural law. |
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The domination of extra-somatic space with various tools and visually guided projectiles empowered a genus otherwise devoid of cornified and dentine defenses. |
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The two are very complementary to each other because of the optimization of the F-22A for air-to-air, and its ability to suppress or defeat enemy air defenses. |
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Spanish authorities were known to execute foreign privateers with their letters of marque hung around their necks to emphasize Spain's rejection of such defenses. |
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Evolutionary theory states that organisms that, by virtue of their defenses or lifestyle, live for long periods and avoid accidents, disease, predation, etc. |
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For the remainder of Domitian's reign Dacia remained a relatively peaceful client kingdom, but Decebalus used the Roman money to fortify his defenses. |
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The unified air forces and air defenses are now under one command. |
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The 42nd Bombardment Wing would carpet-bomb defenses facing Seventh Army. XII Tactical Air Command, of which Brigadier General Glenn O. Barcus had recently become chief. |
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Toward the end of May, most enemy anti-aircraft defenses around the city were suppressed by air power, and by early June, helicopters could land for resupply and medivac. |
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By tricking water-stress defenses in the young plants, cytokinins prompt the plant to quickly build a bigger root system that can access deep soil moisture. |
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