Quotes About Defense

Christian apologetics is a defense of religious faith, thus pertaining to the question of one's ultimate commitment in life. Apologetics entails intellectual reasoning in justification of one's beliefs, thus touching on the epistemological question of the final standard of knowledge.

Defensive coverage is about anticipation, and offensive effectiveness is essentially the art of surprise.

The essential task for a defenseman in his own end is to not allow an offensive player room to create, and to force that player into doing things he doesn't want to do with the puck.

The aforementioned "active stick"—besides being an essential achievement in the Eddie Olczyk NBC broadcaster drinking game—describes what the defenseman needs to do with his twig when taking on an attacker. It should always be on the ice, always in motion, always seeking to be as close to the shooter's blade as possible.

The clicking of gun hammers greeted Jade as he stumbled off the porch. Still gripping the back of his head, he shouted, "Relax! It's me, Marlow. He's pinned down on the property, so hold your positions." He walked behind the phalanx of cars. "I need to sit down a minute and then I'm going back in.

Never give up the personal—it will return as a weapon wielded against you. He

It is right that the influence of the Government should be known in every humble home as the guardian of frugal comfort and content, and a defense against unjust exactions, and the unearned tribute persistently coveted by the selfish and designing. It is right that efficiency and honesty in public service should not be sacrificed to partisan greed; and it is right that the suffrage of our people should be pure and free.

Banditi e malaria hanno fatto il paesaggio italiano (borghi e città in luoghi elevati, difendibili e salubri); altri banditi e altra malaria si dirà lo disfecero.

He gave a different edge to the defensive side of the game and that is where Barça became strong and attractive: losing the ball but then, within five seconds, trying to win it back. The principle is simple and comes from as far back as van Gaal: after losing the ball there are five seconds of pressure to win it back; if it isn't recovered, the defensive phase would begin and players should quickly drop back.

Abidal explains that before he arrived at Barcelona, every time he was called into action on the pitch, as a defender he'd been taught to focus on winning the ball. As soon as he arrived at Barcelona, he was taught to think one step ahead about what he could do with it once he'd got hold of it.

Su endurecimiento fue un mecanismo de defensa. Mientras más duro, menos heridas. Más duro, menos vulnerabilidad. Más duro, menos sumiso contigo.

You have built a wall of concrete shit between yourself and reality.

As a general rule, like counters like. So you can try counterattacking with roverso fendente against roverso fendente, and so forth.

It is of course also possible that the attacker is deliberately feinting to draw the parry to bind it, and will strike on the same side if he manages to open the line, or on the other side if not. Feints

when entering into measure to strike, there should be a clear threat made.

climate-change scenarios are already playing a large and increasing role in the military planning process.

Anger has become their default emotion and emotional defence system. It is part of the 'hard-man' toolbox, but it can also turn inwards with many men exercising anger on themselves, being quick to self-criticise and put themselves down.

My old dog, in life is the best 'Est friend, He's the first to welcome, and the first to defend.

What we have become is typically an assemblage of defense mechanisms and anxiety-management systems generated by the adaptive needs that our fate-fueled biographies bring to us.

My Shadow was not evil; it was the defense against being myself, my own—apparently risky, apparently too costly—self.

I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

if you haven't noticed, the United States government is the biggest weapons manufacturer in the world.

Halleck had defended Grant from criticism after Shiloh, he still had reservations about Grant and relegated him to the largely meaningless position of second in command.

Given the advantages of fighting on the defensive in its own territory with interior lines in which stalemate would be victory against a foe who must invade, conquer, occupy, and destroy the capacity to resist, the odds faced by the South were not formidable.