The committee was initially focused on being primarily defensive, and then changed to being affirmative in nature.

Military investments, if conducted, were primarily defensive in nature.

These - known as studies - are not primarily defensive: they open from the rooms of the upper floor.

He became the first primarily defensive player to be awarded the Heisman trophy.

He was the first and is still the only primarily defensive player to win the prestigious award.

Centre-halves had always played defensively at times, but now their role was to become primarily defensive.

They are primarily defensive, but at more advanced levels can be interpreted as attacks.

A fighting style designed to be primarily defensive would be a new concept for them.

That is the essence of this style, a primarily defensive pose.

The bustle didn't seem primarily defensive, but Haakon knew the air of a place about to be attacked when he saw it.