The slowing is a defensive mechanism to fight weight loss.

This way the defensive mechanisms are built into the code as it is written rather than patched in later.

It is a deep-seated defensive mechanism that we share with most higher forms of life.

The robots have various offensive and defensive mechanism that the players must work around.

They also possess a burning sap as a defensive mechanism.

This is a defensive mechanism which helps them to survive attempts on their lives by predators.

Purely a defensive mechanism, but it is all we have.

It might be possible then that he could reach the platform without triggering the defensive mechanism.

The jokes were a defensive mechanism, a way to hold off fear.

The projection is then only a by-product of the real defensive mechanism.