#defensive

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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We're not hitting on all cylinders, defensively. When we're playing good, I'll let you know. ↗

— Tony Dungy

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Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#defensiveness #jamie-weise #love #love-story #silence

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs. ↗

— Tim Bray

#based #costs #culture #decades #defensive

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. ↗

— Robert Burns

#armour #defensive #existence #favourite #i

We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement. ↗

— Vince Cable

#become #been #bit #british #business

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective. ↗

— Stanley Fish

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The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate. ↗

— Kevin Garnett

#communicate #couple #defensive #doing #drills

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#incentives #measures #strategy #tactics

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#agreements #american #binding #countries #cultural