active defence

Wesley Clark: Our active defence against terror is now highly effective.

The Soviet formulation is more exact: 'the active defence of peace', by which we can infer 'victory without war'.

Glemham again maintained an active defence, repeatedly raiding the besiegers' lines.

These include camouflage, mimicry, toxicity, and active defence.

It is often combined with means for an active defence, such as machicolations, in effect confining intruders to a narrow killing zone.

He also promoted the active defence of the Roman Catholic Church against the growing Reformation.

You will adopt a policy of active defence in Palestine as soon as the operations you are now undertaking are complete.

But it was a control which required active defence, to which the Cinque Ports contributed a good deal, particularly in the late fourteenth century.

Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz organised an active defence and managed to disrupt the concentration of all enemy attacks before they could be started.

They used a strategy of "active defence", carrying out hit-and-run attacks to keep the JNA forces off balance.

Its strength was such that Silla was forced to build a northern wall in 721 as well as maintain active defences along the common border.

Narn ships are built solidly, with few active defences, relying instead on weathering the punishment inflicted on them directly.

All units were required to plan an active defence against counter-attack, using the repulse of German infantry as an opportunity to follow up and inflict more casualties.

The defenders were under the confident command of Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead, an energetic officer who insisted on an active defence.

A more active defence cooperation within the EU should be developed not as a replacement, but as a complement, for NATO.

Active Defence System (ADS)

During this time, the Battalion maintained an active defence as well as considerable patrol activity until its return to the United Kingdom on 23 February 1945.

Over 50 enrolled Active Defence reserve militia combined with the NSW Corps to march out and confront the rebels.

The XIII Corps front was effectively deadlocked and settled into a posture of active defence and patrolling.

Eight hundred metres to the west was a Stop Line, a continuous trench system from which the defenders were supposed to wage an active defence, staging local counterattacks.

His active defence of the colony during the War of 1812 led to his appointment as Governor General of British North America in 1816.

Essential to his new approach was the ability to fight an active defence on the outer shores of the enveloping ditch, made possible by constructing an extra protective wall around the fortification.

HASs are a passive defence measure (i.e., they limit the effect of an attack, as opposed to active defences; e.g., surface-to-air missiles) which aim to prevent or at least degrade enemy attacks.

With the NSW Corps and Active Defence now formed up behind him Major Johnston and the trooper produced pistols and shepherded the two leaders back to unfriendly lines.

The period in which both were founded - 1969 in the case of the Friends, and 1970 in Greenpeace's - marked a transition from old-fashioned conservationism to a much more political and active defence of nature.