defence strategy

collocation in English

meaningsofdefenceandstrategy

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defence
noun
uk
/dɪˈfens/us
/dɪˈfens/
the act of protecting someone or something against attack or ...
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strategy
noun
uk
/ˈstræt.ə.dʒi/us
/ˈstræt̬.ə.dʒi/
a detailed plan for achieving success in situations such as war, politics, business, industry, or sport, or the skill of planning for ...
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(Definition ofdefenceandstrategyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Only then need the lawyer start to think about the nature of any kind ofdefencestrategy.
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But receivers were not very likely to admit anything when denial was clearly an effectivedefencestrategyagainst the mere word of a confessed thief.
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The high degree of certainty that his modality expresses may therefore not necessarily be an indicator of actual confidence, but adefencestrategy.
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His copy of depositions by prosecution witnesses is annotated with his comments, from which it is possible to gain an idea of thedefencestrategy.
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Thus, it may be said that mast-fruiting is adefencestrategyof plants against post-dispersal vertebrate fruit predators.
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This may indicate a close metabolic relationship between the host and the intracellular parasite or may signal adefencestrategyof the host cell.
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The same could be said for the development of theirdefencestrategy, and equally, their nuclear strategy, both of which were a function of the perception of a threat.
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Closer scrutiny reveals the likely reason for the change of story as adefencestrategyof the main defendants.
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I refer to the need in anydefencestrategyto be ready to combat the type of threats that we may now face.
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Take, first of all, the important question ofdefencestrategy.
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I hope to show how seriously this has affected our ability to maintain ourdefencestrategy.
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The maintenance of our nuclear deterrent happens to be part of our defence policy and plays a part in ourdefencestrategy.
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It is clear from what has been said that there is serious and growing disagreement about our presentdefencestrategy.
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Indeed, they reviewed theirdefencestrategyand announced their changes.
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What worries me is that the thrust of ourdefencestrategynow is on the basis of a short war.
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It is as though we can elaborate ondefencestrategyin a vacuum, isolated from economic and industrial pressures.
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The present position is not what it was 10 years ago, when our basicdefencestrategyor policy was formed.
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It does not make an impact on ourdefencestrategy, or the worlddefencestrategy.
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I would say just this: please remember that civil defence is essential to our overalldefencestrategy.
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Defence-strategyis one, and, if we bring agriculture into the question ofdefencestrategy, that is another.
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