The defenses have to hold.

Our army broke through the enemy defenses.

The defenses of the city are strong.

Its defenses are designed around a direct largescale assault.

You've all the defenses of a first rate chess player.

Though the enemy's defenses were strong, we tried to break through.

We want to have our defenses up and our strategies all in order.

Going back to the beginning of our country historically, defenses meant protection of the homeland.

Hometown security means rebuilding our natural defenses, putting people to work, restoring our natural systems.

This is why you keep sacrificing virgins, and why your unicorn defenses are working just great.

The thing to do is wear down his defenses naturally, until we get to a level of truth.

And so there's a lot of I'm sure you've read a lot in papers, about worries about cyberattacks and defenses against those.

And just like that, you've been seduced into a different way of looking at something because the endorphins have brought down your defenses.

It was a nurturing, loving environment, where they were encouraged to let down their emotional defenses and talk about how awful it is to have breast cancer with people who understood, because they were going through it too.

And the comedy comes along, dealing with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest race, religion, politics, sexuality only by approaching them through humor instead of adrenalin, we get endorphins and the alchemy of laughter turns our walls into windows, revealing a fresh and unexpected point of view.

Alright, let's step back from this discussion and notice how many objections have we heard to what they did. we heard some defenses of what they did the defense has had to do with necessity the dire circumstance and, implicitly at least, the idea that numbers matter and not only numbers matter but the wider effects matter their families back home, their dependents