At the centre of Alfred's reformed military defence system was a network of fortresses, or burhs, distributed at strategic points throughout the kingdom.

It is positioned to be the last line of defence should the enemy breach the other components of the fortification system.

According to Dutch legal experts Crombag, Wagenaar, van Koppen, the Dutch system contravenes the provisions of the European Human Rights convention, in the imbalance between the power of the prosecution service and the defence.

The need to maintain a credible deterrence when early warning and intercept times were massively reduced led to the development of an improved air defence ( AD ) system.

Lithuania's defence system is based on the concept of " total and unconditional defence " mandated by Lithuania's national National Security Strategy.

The Luftwaffe lacked an effective air defence system early in the war.

During the later years of the Roman Empire, Pisa did not decline as much as the other cities of Italy, probably thanks to the complexity of its river system and its consequent ease of defence.

When Ensslin devised an " info system " using aliases for each member, the four prisoners were able to communicate again, circulating letters with the help of their defence counsels.

Among the 41 vessel fleet were 2 frigates, 22 missile attack craft ( including 10 advanced Osa II missile boats ), 2 submarine chasers, 4 mine warfare vessels, 8 gunboats, 6 patrol craft, 4 missile corvettes ( on order ), 3 landing craft ( on order ), 1 torpedo recovery vessel and, as part of its coastal defence system, Sepal shore-to-sea missiles with a range of 300 kilometers

In the common law system, vagueness is a possible legal defence against by-laws and other regulations.

* Ciliary escalator action is an important defence system against air-borne infection. The dust particles and bacteria in the inhaled air are caught in the mucous layer present at the mucosal surface of respiratory passages and are moved up towards pharynx by the rhythmic upward beating action of the cilia.

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ( ASIO ) is Australia's national security service, which is responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionage, sabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically motivated violence, attacks on the Australian defence system, and terrorism.

In May the German army captured a French document at La Ville-aux-Bois describing a new system of defence.

For NUTS theorists, a missile defence system would be a positive force in that it would protect against a limited nuclear attack.

Leadership ( Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt had been recalled by Adolf Hitler, to reassure the crumbling western front ), initiative and a good staff system were beginning to create a defence out of chaos.

The Germans were learning ; they had begun to move away from trench-based defences and towards a flexible defence in depth system of strongpoints that was difficult for the supporting artillery to suppress.

Blake defeats the defence system when it tries to use memories he recently discovered were false.

Forty anti-aircraft defence battalions were created, linked with radar and a centralised command-and-control system.

In 2000 a new Article 99a was inserted, that law has to regulate civil defence ; the older legal system regulating this issue had been largely abolished since the end of the Cold War.

The great defence system of Gallifrey is a quantum forcefield known as the Transduction Barrier, a perfect defence shield preventing all matter and energy, even TARDISes, from passing through without authorisation.

The Cape Cod System was designed to demonstrate a computerized air defence system, covering southern New England.

LSK under Nordlie played a 4 – 3 – 3 system, which invites rapid transitional play between defence and attack, Lillestrøm finished fourth in the league and won the 2007 Norwegian cup, beating Haugesund 2 – 0 in the final at Ullevaal Stadion.

Much had been proposed with regards to an imperial federation, a more coherent system of imperial defence and preferential tariffs, yet by 1895 when Chamberlain arrived at the Colonial Office, little had been achieved.

* Earl Jellicoe and Lord Lambton sex scandal ( 1973 ): Conservatives, junior defence minister Lambton is arrested for using prostitutes and Cabinet minister Jellicoe also confesses.

The Star had always avoided using recognized Canadian spelling, citing the Gage Canadian Dictionary in their defence.

Mail armour provided an effective defence against slashing blows by an edged weapon and penetration by thrusting and piercing weapons ; in fact a study conducted at the Royal Armouries at Leeds concluded that " it is almost impossible to penetrate using any conventional medieval weapon " Generally speaking, mail's resistance to weapons is determined by four factors: linkage type ( riveted, butted, or welded ), material used ( iron versus bronze or steel ), weave density ( a tighter weave needs a thinner weapon to surpass ), and ring thickness ( generally ranging from 18 to 14 gauge in most examples ).

Sited to the south-east of Norman Dublin, the castle formed one corner of the outer perimeter of the city, using the River Poddle as a natural means of defence.

This allows attackers ( often a lone attacker ) to play well up the pitch, stretching the opponents ' defence and using the large spaces to be found there.

Some military roles are assigned to the civil police, such as border patrol, and border defence, which are the responsibility of a special police unit officially named " The Maritime and Heliport Police Division ", and which operates on land and at sea, using patrol boats and high-speed surveillance boats.

In April 1940, Popular Science showed an example of a radar unit using the Watson-Watt patent in an article on air defence, but not knowing that the U. S. Army and U. S. Navy were working on radars with the same principle, stated under the illustration, " This is not U. S. Army equipment.

Caratacus and his brother Togodumnus led the initial defence of the country against Aulus Plautius's four legions, thought to have been around 40, 000 men, primarily using guerrilla tactics.

In the defence of Diu, the Vega with a crew of 6, confronted the INS New Delhi, a battle cruiser with over 1200 crew, plus various attacks from Indian Air Force Canberra jet bombers using its sole machine-gun for defence.

The possession football was not leading to enough goals scored without without the presence of Llorente, albeit Aduriz was proving a capable deputy, and the Bielsa tactic of using players regarded as midfielders in defence to boost the overall technique level of the team was seen to backfire somewhat as opponents created chances with alarming ease.

Apparently Grynszpan, having rejected the idea of using this line of defence when Moro-Giafferi had thought of it in 1938, had decided that it was worth a try.

One of the leaders of the movement, John Frost, on trial for treason, claimed in his defence that he had toured his territory of industrial Wales urging people not to break the law, although he was himself guilty of using language that some might interpret as being a call to arms.

The Royal Garrison Artillery ( RGA ) was given responsibility for AA defence in the field, using motorised two-gun sections.

Sited to the south-east of Norman Dublin, the castle formed one corner of the outer perimeter of the city, using the River Poddle as a natural means of defence along two of its sides.

After he uses magic to defend himself and Dudley, he is temporarily expelled from Hogwarts for using magic outside of the school, despite being legally allowed to do in self defence, before it is rescinded.

The earliest example of indirect fire adjusted by an observer seems to be during the defence of Hougoumont in the Battle of Waterloo where a battery of the Royal Horse Artillery fired an indirect Shrapnel barrage against advancing French troops using corrections given by the commander of an adjacent battery with a direct line of sight.

Maisonneuve commanded its defence, using his military training.

Discovering they were not alone in the universe ( and in secret the fact that the SDF-1 was a warship for a giant sized alien race ) the human race united and rebuilt the ship as well as using the technology to advance their own and to create a small defence fleet for earth.

He later ( probably around 1605 ) wrote his Brief Instructions on my Paradoxes of Defence in which he explained some of his method for using his preferred weapons ( he recommends the shorter backsword as being more versatile and offering better defence than the rapier ).

To delay the British advance 600 Māori threw up a defence line, north – south on the Hairini ridge using an old trench – they deepened it and put up a parapet and defended it against a British attack.

The airport started life in 1942 as RAF Hartford Bridge, and it was used by RAF squadrons throughout the remainder of Second World War for reconnaissance, defence and strike operations using Spitfires and Mosquitoes.

The remainder of the brigade would arrive at 01: 15 on 10 July using a number of landing-zones between away, then converge on the bridge to reinforce the defence.

His second term was characterised by the defence of Quebec from a British invasion during King William's War, a successful guerrilla campaign against the Iroquois and English settlements which resulted in the elimination of the Iroquois threat against New France, and a large expansion of the fur trade using Canadian coureurs des bois.