(n.) A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings suggest that a brief hospitalization, perhaps two to three days, might be regularly utilized as a bridgehead for further ambulatory care, particularly for stress category patients with a high appointment failure rate.
(2) It could also perhaps afford the premium that Setanta's backers would be looking for in return for a bridgehead into the UK market.
(3) Several bridgehead nitrogen heterocycles were synthesized to be screened as antimicrobial agents, modeled after nalidixic acid.
(4) The secretary of state and national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, was an admirer and anxious that no bridgehead for the left should be established in Latin America by President Allende.
(5) Results obtained with these assays indicate that all peptides with a disulfide bridgehead in position 11 are inactive and that a cycle between positions 5 and 6 already strongly reduces the biological activity.
(6) This addition may result in the saturation of the bridgehead double bond, thus allowing the two triple bonds to approach each other, causing cyclization of the diyn-ene to form a phenylene diradical.
(7) All bornanedione isomers caused induction, and those with substituents on each of the three consecutive carbon atoms, including the methyl group at the bridgehead carbon, showed induction without supporting growth.
(8) The principal conflict is between the Saudis and Iran, which has established powerful political bridgeheads in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Gaza.
(9) We need a lot of backing and support to fight against terrorism.” Kadyrov said : “Dostum noted that Isis is trying to make Afghanistan into a bridgehead … In order to prevent this threat, Kabul needs Russia’s support, as in Syria.” Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, says Moscow has not received a formal request for intervention from Kabul similar to that made by Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.
(10) Additionally, there is a new bridgehead further to remove employment protection in the labour market, trading employment rights for shares in the company.
(11) delta RM0 values of functional groups (methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, methylene, phenyl, benzyl, saturation) of nitrogen bridgehead compounds [PP = pyrido(1,2-a)-pyrimidine, THPP = tetrahydropyrido(1,2-a)-pyrimidine, CTM-PP = 2,3-cyclotrimethylpyrido(1,2-a)-pyrimidine, CTM-THPP = 2,3-cyclotrimethylenetetrahydropyrido(1,2-a)-pyrimidine, CTRM-PP = 2,3-cyclotetramethylenepyrido(1,2-a)-pyrimidine, CTRM-THPP = 2,3-cyclotetramethylene-tetrahydropyrido(1,2-a)-pyrimidine, CTRM-THPP = 2,3-cyclotetramethylene-tetrahydropyrido(1,2-a)-pyrimidine, THPQ = tetrahydropyrroloquinazoline-, HHAQ = hexahydroazepinoquinazoline-derivates have been calculated from difference of retention values measured on RP-di-C1 stationary phase using methanol + water mobile phases of 6 (10 respectively) various compositions and of retention values (RM0) extrapolated to 0% organic phase.
(12) The bonds from the bridgehead atom of the tricyclic ring to other ring atoms appear to be elongated [av.
(13) The molecules exist as hydrogen-bonded dimers [O14-H14...O16 (related by -x, 1-y, 1-z), O14...O16 2.775 (2), H14...O16 1.93 (2) A, O14-H14...O16 175 (2) degrees] which stack in columns along b. Distortion at the bridgehead double bond is observed.
(14) N-Demethylation of the bridgehead nitrogen was observed only in rat and hamster incubates.
(15) Structure determination has identified UK-63,052, C56H68N10O14S2, UK-63,598, C53H62N10O14S2 and UK-65,662, C55H66N10O14S2 as quinaldic acid substituted quinomycins with unusual bridgehead sulfur substitution as shown in Fig.
(16) We have synthesized a series of imidazo[4,5-b]- and -[4,5-c]pyridine analogues having an imidazo nitrogen relocated at the bridgehead position.
(17) And it’s clear that Cruz is establishing a bridgehead for the lessons of Latin America to find new relevance across what was once an unbridgeable divide.
(18) Initially, the neuroepithelial tissue of the rhombencephalon consists of a pair of rostral and caudal bridgeheads: the former the primary neuroepithelium of the cerebellum and the latter the primary neuroepithelium of the octavo-precerebellar system.
(19) However, Richard Brasher, chief executive of Tesco's UK operation, admitted that it needed to gain a bridgehead into exploiting growing consumer demand for accessing VoD content online in multiple formats and on different devices.
(20) The bridgehead atom of the alkene group, C7, has one short [C7--C6 1.485 (6) A] and one long [C7--C11, 1.541 (6) A] Csp2--Csp3 bond.
Defend
Definition:
(v. t.) To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
(v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
(v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies.
(v. t.) To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
(3) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(4) Joe, meanwhile, defends her right to say "negro" whenever she wants.
(5) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(6) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(7) After an introductory note on primary preventive intervention of breast cancer during adulthood, the author defends and extends a hypothesis that relates most of the known risk factors for this disease to the development of preneoplastic lesions in the breast.
(8) Defendants on legal aid will no longer be able to choose their solicitor.
(9) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(10) In mitigation, Gareth Jones, defending, said: "The first comment [he] wrote was in relation to Fabrice Muamba.
(11) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
(12) The philosopher defended his actions by referring to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, naturally enough, but it didn't wash with HR.
(13) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(14) Free speech has protected hate speech, and opponents of censorship have consistantly defended the rights of unscrupulous populists and incendiarists.
(15) "You could understand why I need another central defender," Mourinho said afterwards.
(16) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
(17) Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, a vigorous defender of Israel, called the speech “ill-advised”.
(18) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(19) "I never expected to get 100 caps and have the reception I did," said the Chelsea defender.
(20) He is shadow home secretary and will have to defend himself.