6 sentences with “defence”

In practice, however, conservatism too often degenerated into a stubborn defence of corrupt, incompetent or oppressive regimes.

That moth-hair covering is an anti-bat defence, a sonic camouflage to blur in the night's silence, and one so effective that the echolocator only elicits an audible bounce from six metres away.

A key legion that distinguished itself from the rest of the military was the Praetorian Guard, whose main job was to defend the emperor himself, followed in priority by the defence of Italy and the city of Rome.

In these circumstances, defence almost always trumped attack, making actual conquest of foreign cities very difficult, if not impossible, and thus, although cities existed for thousands of years (again, from about 3500 BC), there were still no empires.

However, as the power of the French monarchy grew in the west and the Ottoman Turks became an active threat in the east, the most powerful cities signed a treaty, the Peace of Lodi, in 1454 that committed each city to the defence of the existing political order.

The Greeks saw war as the defence of their glorious traditions, including the political participation of citizens in the state, but it was the Greeks who controlled a society that depended heavily on slavery, whereas slavery was at least less widespread in Persia than in Greece.