6 sentences with “defences”

At the time, Da Vinci was sought after for his engineering skills, overseeing the construction of the naval defences of Venice and marsh drainage projects in Rome at various points.

Athens had to sue for peace. Sparta destroyed the Athenian defences it had used during the war, but did not destroy the city itself, and within a year the Athenians created a new government.

There are more defences. At least 46,000 species of moths have evolved a primitive ear that functions as an echolocator alarm. This system is capable of picking up the bat's ultrasonic pulses from about 30 metres away, giving it six times the range of the echolocator.

As some ships of the Montevideo squadron threatened the inhabitants of the shores of the Paraná River, Manuel Belgrano was commissioned to set up defences there. For this purpose, two batteries were built in Rosario de Santa Fe, which Belgrano named Libertad and Independencia.

Meanwhile, despite having good information on what was happening and having seen British ships sailing close to the coast of Buenos Aires, Viceroy Rafael de Sobre Monte did little to strengthen the defences of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in the face of the imminent British attack.

In a well-known study of parents whose children had cancer, all were found to have high cortisol levels, although those with 'psychological defences' against anxiety (including a strong religious belief) showed much lower levels of the hormone than parents who refused to accept the seriousness of their children's condition.