Eksempler på defensively

• The adults pose defensively against possible picnic "deceit," the inherent treachery of which is unclear.

• The city was intentionally designed defensively: its exterior wall does not bisect preexisting buildings, and there are gates on all sides of the city.

• While these mechanisms enable people to program defensively in an ad-hoc manner, they are an inappropriate basis for designing, implementing, and composing program components.

• Doctors are more inclined to behave defensively and "enforce" autonomy to reduce their own risk taking and responsibility.

• Indeed, they may defensively turn away from awareness of others' experience, and from dwelling in their own or others' inner states.

• Where it could be shown that the torturer did so defensively to save his or her own life, the normal defense of necessity should prevail.

• While the technology diffuses, health policy is only in the position to react restrictively or defensively, rather than to be active.

• Attachmentrelated information that, as a result of its (affective) content, does not fit the expectancies is defensively excluded.