However, Iraqi air defenses shot down nine U.S. aircraft.

These proteins are often used to shut down host defenses.

The defenses ... belong to a fairly advanced date in that period and there was a massive stone revetment... part of a complex system of defenses (pp.

The construction of the new city defenses took place between 1447 and 1453.

Recombination may also contribute, in principle, to overcoming the immune defenses of the host.

Asexual reproduction diminishes genetic diversity, which helps build defenses against threats to the species.

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

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

Other groups of small organisms from the Neoproterozoic era also show signs of antipredator defenses.

In the stomach, gastric acid and proteases serve as powerful chemical defenses against ingested pathogens.

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

He defeated them again at Vindonissa (Windisch, Switzerland), thereby strengthening the defenses of the Rhine frontier.

With four powerful planets surrounding their own, the Encyclopedists have no defenses but their own intelligence.

Defenses States with potentially hostile neighbors typically adopt defensive measures to delay or forestall an invasion.

Unity of command became a question when the various nation states began coordinating assaults and defenses.

Denis of Portugal (1279 1325) is attributed to the action of reconstruction and expansion of its defenses.

Meanwhile the castro fort suffered many different invasions and defenses from Romans, Moors and Christians over the years.

Kuribayashi specially engineered the defenses so that every part of Iwo Jima was subject to Japanese defensive fire.

He served in the Pacific Theater of Operations and commanded the defenses of Alaska early in the war.

These were tempting targets for enemy fighter aircraft, though difficult to destroy, due to their heavy anti aircraft defenses.

When British forces threatened New Orleans, Jackson took command of the defenses, including militia from several western states and territories.

The use of precision air campaigns and large scale mechanization have made lighter, more mobile defenses desirable to military planners.

The Museo delle Mura near the Porta San Sebastiano offers information on the walls' construction and how the defenses operated.

He continued to feud with Triple H, using his authority to place his opponents at severe disadvantages during title defenses.

In 1882, he studied motile (freely moving) cells in the larvae of starfishes, believing they were important to the animals' immune defenses.

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

To reach Santiago they had to pass through concentrated Spanish defenses in the San Juan Hills and a small town in El Caney.

On 31 December, the Brazilians and Colorados recommenced their attack and overran the city's defenses, after a bitter struggle, on 2 January 1865.

That revenge came in a plot where Komand'r betrayed her planet by supplying detailed information about Tamaran's defenses to their enemies, the Citadel.

Of course, non state actors are harder to deter, so improved defenses such as pre emption and human intelligence become important in such cases.

But the US has argued that arms control measures banning offensive capabilities could weaken defenses against attacks and would be impossible to verify or enforce.

In the aftermath of Fukushima, defenses against multiple severe natural disasters, including earthquakes and tsunamis, are being strengthened at nuclear facilities all over the world.

It is to meet this threat that the Air Force has been developing SAGE, the Semi Automatic Ground Environment system, to strengthen our air defenses.

The city defenses loyal to Gaddafi included the military headquarters at Bab al Aziziyah (where Gaddafi's main residence was located) and the Mitiga International Airport.

The ship was acquired by the Spanish government there, with the objective of building up defenses against the attacks of the Dutch and the English.

1987 19 year old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia.

His army laid siege to the city but was forced to withdraw in defeat as the Puerto Rican defenses proved more resilient than those of Trinidad.

Brazil prepared itself for the imminent conflict, and coastal defenses were given permission to fire upon any British warship that tried to capture Brazilian merchant ships.

Theodosius used this opportunity to strengthen the walls of Constantinople, building the city's first sea wall, and to build up his border defenses along the Danube.

Solid Snake is forced out of retirement and is dispatched at the request of Colonel Roy Campbell to penetrate the terrorists' defenses and neutralize the threat.

In the Ansei Reform (1854 1856), Abe then tried to strengthen the regime by ordering Dutch warships and armaments from the Netherlands and building new port defenses.

Pressing his advantage, the marquis began organizing an assault on the new Paraguayan defenses which López had thrown up along the Pikysyry, south of Asunción (Paraguay's capital).

In the 21st century, as vast improvements are made in anti aircraft defenses, it seems that the air invasion is a strategy whose time may never come.

Other advisers warn him that any possible action a safe zone on the Turkish border, for example, that could expand outward requires taking out anti aircraft defenses all over Syria.

There is strong evidence that one of the adaptations resulting from exercise is a strengthening of the body's antioxidant defenses, particularly the glutathione system, to regulate the increased oxidative stress.